How to Use situation comedy in a Sentence
situation comedy
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Lies and their fallout are of course at the very core of situation comedy.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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But the format — a situation comedy complete with laugh track — felt like a throwback.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
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On that premise, countless situation comedies, dramas and reality shows have been launched.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
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The situation in this situation comedy is that Alexa is being treated for cancer.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Translating a stand-up’s ethos into a situation comedy hadn’t been attempted.
—Travis M. Andrews, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
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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
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The situation comedy ‘‘Seinfeld’’ began airing as a regular series on NBC.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2020
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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
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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
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