situation comedy
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of situation comedy
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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It’s part situation comedy, part reality show, part prank show.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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
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