situation comedy

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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 they’ll be friendly before long and living together by the end of the second episode, amplifying the situation in the situation comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

A one-off special of The Royle Family - The Queen of Sheba - won the Bafta for best situation comedy in 2007.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

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