Over years of watching television, fans have almost tuned out the tracks of laughter that are played over the scenes. If they come to think about it, are laugh tracks really necessary for sitcoms? Or ...

I’ve been on a sitcom kick lately. Right now, I’m in the middle of “How I Met Your Mother” for the first time, as well as “Gilmore Girls” and “2 Broke Girls,” but I always go back to the classics like ...

Almost every night, when my wife and I want to unwind on the couch, we'll put on a sitcom and just relax. These kinds of shows make us laugh, we get involved with the characters' lives, and they're ...

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories. There's nothing quite like ...

If you look at a list of the most-watched television shows of the 1990s, you’ll find that seven of the top 10 were sitcoms. As any fan who lived through it can tell you, the decade was a golden era ...

In the 75 years since it was introduced, the laugh track has conditioned viewers to know when and how much to laugh Some audiences love it, and some audiences hate it, but the laugh track—which ...

There's a lot of things that can ruin an otherwise decent sitcom. A cheesy script or underwritten characters is one. Cringey, outdated jokes or overused, tired tropes is another. But when it comes to ...