A video shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom "Friends" that's so bizarre that it's uncomfortable to watch.

Bob Riha, Jr./Getty; Saeed Adyani/Netflix; Sam Urdank/Fox Jerry Seinfeld as himself on 'Seinfeld'; Lily Tomlin as Frankie Bergstein and Jane Fonda as Grace Hanson on 'Grace and Frankie'; Jason Bateman ...

The scene: A sitcom family gathers in a semicircle around a telephone, as the youngest child of the family worries that his calls to a pornographic chat line will become known to his father. The ...

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Fox’s Tuesday night laffers are dusting off an old sitcom custom in a bid to remind viewers that the genre still has legs. Both “Back to You” and “‘Til Death” have added a voiceover at the start of ...

Charles Rolland Douglass, who invented the TV laugh-track technology that either (a) allowed television to preserve a crucial comedic tradition or (b) condemned the sitcom to an atmosphere of ...

When was the last time you spared a thought about sitcom laugh tracks? Probably years. Maybe decades? Sitcoms with background laughter have seemed almost dead, definitely and firmly dying, for a very ...