situation comedy
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Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
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
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
