How to Use situation comedy in a Sentence

situation comedy

noun

• Lies and their fallout are of course at the very core of situation comedy.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• But the format — a situation comedy complete with laugh track — felt like a throwback.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• On that premise, countless situation comedies, dramas and reality shows have been launched.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• The situation in this situation comedy is that Alexa is being treated for cancer.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• Meckler’s approach had elements of situation comedy and older British music hall (Will Bradley’s Puck flipping his bowler) and slapstick.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The charming, conventional situation comedy, based on a British original, is set in a haunted mansion full of bickering roommates, some dead, some alive.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The show was a situation comedy whose emphasis was on strength, character, and achievement — an exhortation to black audiences and a pointed object lesson to whites.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• All possibilities are kept in play, the various tropes employed less like the escalating steps of a horror tale than like the stock, rotating elements of a situation comedy.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
• The series, which premiered on TV Land in 2015, was that network’s first single-camera situation comedy and is its last surviving original production.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Translating a stand-up’s ethos into a situation comedy hadn’t been attempted.
  — Travis M. Andrews, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• Lucille Ball and real-life husband Desi Arnaz pioneered the situation comedy with this ‘50s story of domestic life.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
• The situation comedy ‘‘Seinfeld’’ began airing as a regular series on NBC.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2020
• Like the stand-up-to-sitcom trade route that defined much of 20th century situation comedy, the Web creates opportunity for actors that the industrial machinery of mainstream show business might reject as too unconventional.
  — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
• While audiences have been conditioned to all types of tinkering with time and geography in classical theater, situation comedy imposes on practitioners a particular level of discipline, with plotting, timing and dialogue.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024