Occasionally, but not usually. I usually prefer the ones without a laugh track, like Arrested Development, 30 Rock, or Futurama. Seinfeld is an exception in that it uses a laugh track and I still love it. Normally laugh tracks really turn me off. I know they're tricking me into thinking that something was funny, because when you hear people laughing, the natural tendency is to laugh along with them even if you didn't get the joke. The problem is that the mere existence of a laugh track often leaves me questioning whether ANYTHING in the show was actually funny.
Like, I'll see something REALLY funny, then the audience laughs hard. I then think, "wait...did I think that was funny because it was funny, or because the laugh track indicated that I was supposed to think it was funny?" And in the vast majority of cases, I think I start second-guessing genuine laughs and my overall enjoyment is diminished.
M*A*S*H is another good example. Great show, but it really didn't need the laugh track. The movie didn't have a laugh track, the show didn't need one either. I love M*A*S*H, but it would've been a lot better if they didn't try to trick me into thinking it was funny.
I think that laugh tracks just need to die, period. If it's truly funny, it doesn't need a laugh track, so cut that **** out.
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