Nery Saenz is a funny man with a funny name. New Times named him Best Comedian in its 2011 “Best of Miami” issue. The proudly Miami-born comic gets crowds giggling to the point of tears. His routines ...

The laugh track, otherwise known as the cringiest sound in modern television. The laugh track, otherwise known as the cringiest sound in modern television. Where did it come from and why do so many of ...

What is this silence that surrounds us? Can it be measured? Can it be heard? More importantly, is Roommates—the ABC Family sitcom that is basically a parody of a sitcom made real—filmed in a void?

Depending on which camp you’re in, you either found Sarah Palin‘s monologue during Tuesday’s Tonight Show to be funny—or reports of NBC using a laugh track to be even funnier. Although an “audience ...

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh ...