This makes me think of the Simpsons episode with Mr Burns trying to get his teddy bear Bobo back and taking over Springfield's TV stations at one point:
'Smithers, I'm home!'
*laughter*
'What, already?
*laughter*
'Yes.'
*laughter*

It all depends, I love Frasier and Seinfeld for instance and both have laugh tracks or studio laughter, but then it's done moderately there and not to the OTT extent you get in (usually) medicore to poor comedies. A laugh track can make a poor show ten times more annoying. And more recent great comedies (Arrested Development, The Office UK and US etc) have dispensed with it.