situation comedy

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

Tracy Morgan has fetched up in a multicamera, filmed-before-a-live-audience situation comedy, “Crutch.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 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