I checked out this show, and while it's quite clever, I can't get past the laugh track.
So you've never been able to watch any sitcom ever?
No, I say fair play to him. Most sitcoms I watch don't have a laugh track. Even the weirder ones. It's been deeply uncool for the best part of a decade now. The only recent sitcoms I can think of that have laugh tracks are crap family ones which air at about 6pm, and Graham Linehan's stuff.
To wit...
The Office, Extras, Spaced, Scrubs, The Mighty Boosh, Peep Show, The Inbetweeners, The League of Gentlemen (eventually), Malcolm in the Middle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, etc. etc. I can think of more sitcoms without laugh tracks than with. Laughs are more the territory of sketchcoms and panel shows.