The sign also offers guidance and challenges the audience, some of whom did follow instructions when the light went on. Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm wrote “Hooded or Being Black for Dummies ...

Although the creators of “Will & Grace” vociferously deny using a laugh track, studio audiences — prepared by a warm-up comic and queued by an “Applause” sign — aren’t much better.

The laugh track has outlasted acerbic critics, more than 50 seasons of sitcoms and seems as much a part of TV as “sweeps”--the ratings period underway through the rest of this month. Advertisement ...

For many, the U.S. sitcom Friends was the defining television show of a generation. The '90s classic, which ran for ten seasons between 1994 and 2004, provided viewers with an array of iconic ...

Forget the fuss about "Survivor" , just look at the crop of new fall sitcoms. There's the older-man sitcom, "Twenty Good Years"; the pregnancy sitcom, "Notes from the Underbelly"; the wedding ...