sitcom
[sit-kom]
noun Informal.
Origin of sitcom
First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening
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Related Words for sitcom
fun, humor, satire, farce, picnic, takeoff, funniness, drollery, interlude, hoopla, comicality, travesty, hilarity, ball, burlesque, witticism, slapstick, vaudeville, camp, merry-go-roundExamples from the Web for sitcom
Contemporary Examples of sitcom
Early this year, Cosby had a sitcom in development for NBC and a stand-up special in development for Netflix.
I ended up doing a show in Los Angeles, and HBO said they liked it and asked if I could think about it as a sitcom.
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November 22, 2014
Janeane Garofalo bashed President George W. Bush so much over the invasion of Iraq that it likely cost her her own ABC sitcom.
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August 13, 2014
Soon after he was cast in the critically beloved ABC sitcom Happy Endings, on which he played Max Blum.
How many times can you watch a sitcom featuring a family sitting in the living room insulting each other?
Historical Examples of sitcom
They were looking at one another like a couple of googly-eyed kids at the end of a date in a sitcom.
MakersCory Doctorow
sitcom
noun
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