When was the last time you spared a thought about sitcom laugh tracks? Probably years. Maybe decades? Sitcoms with background laughter have seemed almost dead, definitely and firmly dying, for a very ...

Paco, a distracted young man, wakes up one morning listening to applause, lamentations and laughter in the style of sitcoms. Trying to figure out what is happening, he focuses on his academic and ...

Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only still popular, but have become ...