06 March 2007

Laugh Tracks

Watched the pilot episode of The Winner last night. Rob Corddry is a funny man, but I just couldn’t get past the laugh track. After a sitcom diet consisting of Arrested Development, Scrubs, The Office, and 30 Rock, it feels almost insulting to have a laugh track tell me where the jokes were. The laugh track just seemed so out-dated, I very briefly couldn’t figure out which characters were laughing until remembering, “oh yeah, this is what sitcoms used to be like.”