The Cavemen ROCK.
However, if they go without a laugh track and do this stupid empty pause crap that the Office and the other new comedies are doing, the thing is doomed.
I've always thought that shows with laugh tracks mean they aren't funny...
On the contrary...
Laugh track helps make it funny. It is a psychological cue that you aren't the only one in the room laughing. The trouble of course has been that too many bad sitcoms with jokes that were not funny were relying on the laugh track to make it seem like they were funny, when they weren't. But how funny is it when you are watching a standup routine and jokes fall on dead silence? Those quiet pauses make it really hard to laugh, and its easy to feel like something is missing.
Shows like the Office, My Name is Earl, etc, don't use laugh track but that's because they've invented devices, where the scene is so rediculous, you still have that mental cue. But I dispise this sudden hatred for a studio audience. Not all of us share in this sudden "sit coms are lame" attitude.
