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 ...

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Laugh Track, the National’s second album of 2023, was crafted while the band toured sold-out arenas. Yet it is also heavy—beautifully heavy—with concerns of decline.

For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.

RIP canned laughter, the most evil innovation in TV history The sitcom laugh track has finally died after a long illness. Now what were we being made to laugh at all those years?

“Crumble,” like most of Laugh Track, is a rainy-day number propelled by The National’s solid rhythm section and widescreen orchestrations. Cash’s harmonies on the chorus, as well as her ...

Charles Douglas invented the laugh track with the innocent intention of cuing the audience in case they failed to pick up a joke as intended. But before long, laugh tracks sneaked their way into ...

Why the Laugh Track Won’t Die Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only ...

The Laugh Track Is Back in Fashion After 75 years, adding laughter to TV programs has gone from cutting-edge technology to nostalgic reminder of sitcoms past.