sitcom
[sit-kom]
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Origin of sitcom
First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening
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Contemporary Examples
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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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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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
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
- an informal term for situation comedy
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Word Origin and History for sitcom
n.
1964, from the first elements of situation comedy, a phrase attested from 1953 of television shows, 1943 of radio programs; see situation.
Even Bing Crosby has succumbed to series TV and will appear in a sitcom as an electrical engineer who happens to break into song once a week. ["Life," Sept. 18, 1964]
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