its so ubiquitous it feels like it was a requirement…
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There were accusations of using a laugh track - recorded laughter added in post-production - so having authentic laughter was a selling point if you’d stumbled across a show coming on after something else.
I’m sure those ones also used laugh tracks, because they didn’t say “Actual audience laughter.”
Many that were filmed in front of a live audience still had a laugh track. Either to correct them not laughing or not laughing enough at the clearly excellently written jokes, or laughing at things they weren’t supposed to was removed or dampened.
