The Wire is hilarious
the above exercise (although almost a year old) as a companion to a well-illustrated article from Slate on the history of the laugh track. the slide show is fun, like a kiosk at the museum of the moving image.
from the article:
The fact is, hearing laughter still makes people laugh. Laughter, after all, is one of the two most contagious human behaviors. (The other, yawning, is of less interest to the people who make TV shows.)
