How many folk singers does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to change it and another to sing about how much better the old bulb was. OK, now laugh. Harder! That, in a nutshell, is how the laugh ...

Earlier this week, The National dropped a surprise new album. It’s called Laugh Track, and it arrived just five months after their previous LP released in 2023, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein. Since ...

The post The National’s Laugh Track Is a Fine but Forgettable Companion Album: Review appeared first on Consequence. The final results, according to the group, are fairly similar to what happened ...

Most television comedies in the early 1960s used laugh tracks to get viewers to laugh along. The Andy Griffith Show also used one, but it wasn’t an idea the star himself was on board with. Andy ...

People find corny jokes funnier when they are paired with laughter, a new study found. (Though, as you will see, “funny” is a relative term.) By Niraj Chokshi Humor, it has been said, “can be ...

NBC’s new summer sketch series, “The Downer Channel,” surfaced last month with some fluff that included “noises that can drive you crazy.” One was nails clawing a blackboard, another leaf blowers. I’d ...

Is the laugh track finally being taken seriously? Critics have long viewed adding the taped sound of laughter to TV shows as an exercise in mind control and behavior modification. At best, TV viewers ...

Right now, I'm imagining your laughter. Stephen Colbert had meant that as a joke when he addressed the comment to the camera in a mostly-empty studio, during the brief period when late night TV taped ...