This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Laughter is a universal language, and television comedies have long been the perfect medium for delivering humor to audiences worldwide ...

Before there was anything else on TV, there was comedy. Sitcoms and variety shows have been running in various iterations for more than 70 years, giving people the one thing that always seems to be in ...

War is hell—but on television, it can also be pretty funny, as proven by the history of classic TV military comedies. For decades, the medium has marched brave (and oftentimes clueless) soldiers, ...