Here's a noble attempt to scientifically prove that The Office is funnier than Friends
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Do you mourn the laugh track? Sure, it still exists on duds like The Big Bang Theory and Kevin Can Wait, but the majority of TV comedies have rendered the laugh track as dead as the people who, once upon a time, produced that very laughter. Well, YouTuber Drew Gooden most surely does not mourn the laugh track, which, in the above video essay, he argues does more to hobble a show’s humor than boost it. He makes his case by showing how a show like The Office, which doesn’t have a laugh track, has the space and efficiency to tell more jokes per minute than a show like Friends, which has a laugh track.