Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A situation comedy.
Wiktionary
- n. A situation comedy: an episodic comedy television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation.
- n. An episode of such a program.
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WordNet 3.0
- n. a humorous drama based on situations that might arise in day-to-day life
- n. a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life
Etymologies
- From situation + comedy; situation comedy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Earth” the sitcom is a comedy for the rest of the universe.”
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“Second, even if a particular kind of sitcom is dying out, that doesn't mean the form has lost its popularity.”
“The whole “gruff and edgy” husband/father based sitcom is a concept that currently does not have a strong showing on tv already.”
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“Whites9pm, BBC2Matt King and Oli Lansley's slightly offbeat country kitchen sitcom is up there with Rev as one of the best comedy debuts of the year.”
“The guy behind the counter, George, in his 20s, treated us like lovable scum, like you see bartenders treating the barflys in a sitcom from the era.”
“But any heft and truth in this amiable but lightweight family sitcom comes from the great CCH Pounder.”
“The market says playing third banana on a bad sitcom is worth $20,000 dollars a week.”
“Written by Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield, veterans of another ABC dud, Help Me Help You, this sort-of sitcom is yet another show built around types rather than people.”
“Episode six of awesome sysadmin sitcom The IT Crowd is ...”
“A sitcom based off of a twitter account still doesn't bold well with me, either does being on CBS whose only good sitcom is How I Met Your Mother, the rest are very obvious generic sitcom style humor.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sitcom’.
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The Form and Function of Genres
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MEC1 Lesson 109
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Tweets
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oroboros Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
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