How to Use situation comedy in a Sentence

situation comedy

noun
  • Lies and their fallout are of course at the very core of situation comedy.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • But the format — a situation comedy complete with laugh track — felt like a throwback.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • The plots are the usual stuff of mainstream situation comedy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • On that premise, countless situation comedies, dramas and reality shows have been launched.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The tension between the two makes for some of the best culture-specific jokes — and universal situation comedy — around.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Translating a stand-up’s ethos into a situation comedy hadn’t been attempted.
    — Travis M. Andrews, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • The situation in this situation comedy is that Alexa is being treated for cancer.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies.
    — Beth Harris, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • Noah and Joanne are unselfish people whose constitutional truthfulness robs the series of one of situation comedy’s main engines — the lie — for the better.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The charming, conventional situation comedy, based on a British original, is set in a haunted mansion full of bickering roommates, some dead, some alive.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The Platonic ideal of a situation comedy.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • All possibilities are kept in play, the various tropes employed less like the escalating steps of a horror tale than like the stock, rotating elements of a situation comedy.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
  • More than anyone before him, Norman used situation comedy to shine a light on prejudice, intolerance, and inequality.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And without Louie, there would have been no Atlanta or Dave or so many series that blurred reality and situation comedy, hilarity and discomfort.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Meckler’s approach had elements of situation comedy and older British music hall (Will Bradley’s Puck flipping his bowler) and slapstick.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The situation comedy ‘‘Seinfeld’’ began airing as a regular series on NBC.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2020
  • Lucille Ball and real-life husband Desi Arnaz pioneered the situation comedy with this ‘50s story of domestic life.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The series, which premiered on TV Land in 2015, was that network’s first single-camera situation comedy and is its last surviving original production.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The premise that Valerie must keep that AI secret from the rest of her cast, and from the industry as a whole, gives this season a solid comedic game and allows for the kind of misunderstandings and humiliations that are the meat and potatoes of classic situation comedy.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • While audiences have been conditioned to all types of tinkering with time and geography in classical theater, situation comedy imposes on practitioners a particular level of discipline, with plotting, timing and dialogue.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Like the stand-up-to-sitcom trade route that defined much of 20th century situation comedy, the Web creates opportunity for actors that the industrial machinery of mainstream show business might reject as too unconventional.
    — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 27 June 2018

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