For some reason sitcoms still believe we need to be told when to laugh. To prove that the laugh track is completely useless and outdated, we took a funny show without one, put one in, and the results were surprising.
When a sit-com ends, the final character stares blankly at the room where so many memories were once held, sighs fondly, then silently exits. Here is a compilation of those moments. Ahh, the memories.
Or: How Dudes Living In Their Parents' Basements Became the Horatio Alger Myth of the Internet.
Slacker generation, sexual deviation, end of a MILF relation, and bed-bug infestation. The best from Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock. Must-see TV Thursday? You be the judge. To the lulz!
To kick off our favorite night of scripted television comedy, here's a gallery of our favorite mashups from NBC's Thursday night shows. No Jay Leno included.
At least for the time being. While the wonderfully absurd workplace farce took home a bunch of Emmys on Sunday night, it hasn't had any affect on the new batch of comedies starting tonight. Prepare to frown.
Padma Lakshmi is trying to make the leap from reality TV judge to sitcom star. Discussions about a new series (possible, boring, title: Single Serving) center around Padma working in the culinary world. How unsatisfying! Here are some better ideas.
NBC is reportedly developing a sitcom called "George and Hilly" based on New York Observer writer George Gurley's columns about couples therapy with his fiancee. Here's what prime time viewers have to look forward to:
[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] April 8 @ 11:51am Damon Wayans and Tim Kring at Day 2 of the Ad Age Digital Conference. Didn't know that they were good buds! AND—
Good news is rare in these worrisome times, but here among the rubble is a little ray of sunshine (mixed metaphors!) Critically-beloved 30 Rock is finally performing healthily in the ratings.
Confronted with the upcoming end of his sitcom's surprising, nine-year run, reflective King of Queens star Kevin James shared his theory about how his Little Sitcom That Could (Repeatedly Defy Cancellation) lasted as long as it did: by carefully avoiding the unwanted attention that comes with critical acclaim and…
Today's THR reports that Warner Bros. has found success overseas by exporting 80s sitcom Perfect Strangers to Russia (titled Brat'ya po-raznomu, loosely translated as We Are From Different Lands and Yet Somehow the Same, New Friend). But the Russian producers are not content to merely rename Larry and Balki as…
As anyone who has ever worked on a sitcom can tell you, the writers room is not just the inner sanctum where a dozen scribes gather to brainstorm the theoretical contents of Courteney Cox's uterus or share their disdain for foreplay into the wee hours of the morning, it's also the place where metric tons of Red…
Margaret Cho is trying her hand at sitcoms again. We always felt her sponge-bath-administering character Gwen ("My name's Gwen and I'm here to warrrrsh your vagina!") could be the next Ally McBeal, but Cho has opted for the "ethnic, multigenerational family comedy" route that did her in the first time around:
