Response to "Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha."

In "Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha." the author, Chuck Klosterman, discusses his outlook on the concept of laugh tracks. In the piece Klosterman states that there is nothing more "philosophically stupider than laugh tracks". He has a large amount of reasoning to back this up however, the main point that he was trying to convey was that the reason why popular TV shows still use laugh tracks is the assumption that "normal people don't have enough confidence to know what they think is funny". Overall, I agree with Klosterman's viewpoint, I find that laugh tracks are quite frivolous and also sort of insulting to society's intelligence. I can see the novelty in laugh tracks but essentially after about half an episode of a TV show that employs laugh tracks it starts to get annoying. It's like being at the movies with that one guy who laughs entirely too loud. It makes angry, embarrassed and just downright sad. People don't need to be told when to laugh and implementing this tactic, it makes people feel dumber. Quite possibly because their laughing so much at stupid shit that should not be laughed at...