situation comedy
Example Sentences
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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
Tracy Morgan has fetched up in a multicamera, filmed-before-a-live-audience situation comedy, “Crutch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
