situation comedy

Example Sentences

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“Not everything was a funny situation. We weren’t a situation comedy, a lot of it was dreadful.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

It is, in short, your basic “High School Musical”-“Glee”-“Smash”-“Waiting for Guffman”-type community-theater situation comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

One reviewer went so far as to say, “It may be the first situation comedy truly to achieve the status of art.”

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

The first time was in 1997 when “Roseanne,” the situation comedy that introduced us to the tight-knit but combative working class family from Lanford, Ill., came to a close after nine seasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Together we resembled the cast of a dopey situation comedy, something called Grin and Bear It, or Hello, Dolly.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris