It doesn’t matter which decade they come from, the majority of them tell the same overused jokes. You always hear the same usual bits about race, weight, or corny sexual jokes. Coming from someone who watches tv all the time, only a handful of the “comedy” shows have made me slightly laugh. Most of them wouldn’t be anything without a laugh track. I really don’t get the big hype about shows like Friends, Seinfeld, The Golden Girls, or Big Bang Theory. The only exception in my opinion is the Office, because while they do predominantly make the stereotypical jokes I mentioned in the beginning, the delivery is brilliant, and they don’t have a laugh track either so it doesn’t feel as forced, and they also make it as realistic as possible as opposed to most sitcoms that feel fictitious. #conversation source