Hollywood Laugh Track Operators Guild On Strike

Less publicized than the Screenwriters strike is the smaller Guild Of Laugh Track Operators, also on strike. Spokesman for the LTO Guild said that their role in "audience assisted humor recognition" has become even more crucial to the success of modern television situation comedy (Sit com).
"Without our assistance, the viewers might just as well be reading Eder Alan Poe or Silvia Plaith.... sans talent"