situation comedy
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of situation comedy
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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“Not everything was a funny situation. We weren’t a situation comedy, a lot of it was dreadful.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 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
One reviewer went so far as to say, “It may be the first situation comedy truly to achieve the status of art.”
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025
It brought new depth and possibilities to situation comedy, and paved the way for shows that operated at the intersection of the fictional and the real.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
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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