situation comedy
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I couldn’t get on a list for an audition because they identified me with situation comedy television.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
The late Carl Reiner, who created the series and based Van Dyke’s TV writer on himself, called his star the single most talented man in situation comedy.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 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
But he returned to situation comedy in 1982 with “Newhart,” a CBS series that ran until 1990 and featured Newhart and Mary Frann as the husband-and-wife proprietors of an authentic colonial inn in Vermont.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024
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
