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" Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different."
Laura San Giacomo

Meaning of "situation comedy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SITUATION COMEDY

situation comedy


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SITUATION COMEDY

noun
adjective
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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Situation comedy is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SITUATION COMEDY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sitcom

A situation comedy, often shortened to the portmanteau sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, with often humorous dialogue. Such programs originated in radio, but today, sitcoms are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated by the use of a laugh track.

Definition of situation comedy in the English dictionary

The definition of situation comedy in the dictionary is a comedy series involving the same characters in various day-to-day situations which are developed as separate stories for each episode Also called: sitcom.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SITUATION COMEDY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SITUATION COMEDY

alternative comedy · Bach flower remedy · black comedy · character comedy · comedy · dramedy · golden remedy · herbal remedy · high comedy · light comedy · low comedy · musical comedy · remedy · Restoration comedy · romantic comedy · tragicomedy

Synonyms and antonyms of situation comedy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «situation comedy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SITUATION COMEDY

Find out the translation of situation comedy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of situation comedy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «situation comedy» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

情景喜剧
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

comedia de situación
570 millions of speakers
en

English

situation comedy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

स्थिति कॉमेडी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوضع الكوميديا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

комедия ситуации
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

comédia de situação
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পরিস্থিতি কমেডি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

comédie de situation
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Keadaan komedi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Situationskomik
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

連続ホームコメディ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

상황 코미디
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kahanan komedi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ phim hài tình hình
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சூழ்நிலை நகைச்சுவை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

परिस्थिती कॉमेडी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

durum komedisi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

situation comedy
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

sytuacja komedia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

комедія ситуації
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

situație comedie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάσταση κωμωδία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

situasie -komedie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

situationen komedi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

situasjonskomikk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of situation comedy

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about situation comedy

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5 QUOTES WITH «SITUATION COMEDY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word situation comedy.
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Russell Baker
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Bill Bixby
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
3
Laura San Giacomo
Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
4
John Goodman
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.
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Patti LuPone
I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SITUATION COMEDY»

Discover the use of situation comedy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to situation comedy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: ...
Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950's Beulah to contemporary series ...
Robin R. Means Coleman, 1998
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Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal ...
"Hamamoto explores the vast wasteland of television and provides a provocative reading of the social and political significance of a neglected mediated text.
Darrell Y. Hamamoto, 1991
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Situation comedy: humor in recent art
Admit it: you've sometimes wanted to laugh at contemporary art. The leveling power of humor in Situation Comedy is used to break down the barriers of taste and to question authority at every turn.
Dominic Molon, Michael Rooks, David Sedaris, 2005
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Critiquing the Sitcom: A Reader
These presuppositions are also operative in the case of situation comedy, but they naturally assume a form appropriate to that type of television show. What I wish to argue is that situation comedy can be understood as a genre. To understand ...
Joanne Morreale, 2003
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Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television
Patricia Mellencamp Before their entries into the world of television situation comedy in the 1950s, Gracie Allen and Lucille Ball were both already established performers: Allen in vaudeville, radio, and film; and Ball, initially as a "Goldwyn Girl ...
Jeremy G. Butler, 1991
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Beyond Sitcom: New Directions in American Television Comedy
This book analyzes four comic series--Scrubs, The office, The comeback, and Ugly Betty--revealing how each program separates itself from traditional and demonstrates an increased self-awareness of the genre.
Antonio Savorelli, 2010
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Teaching Viewing and Visual Texts: Secondary
Use it as the basis to identify, with student input, the opening stable state in the situation comedy and likely disruptions. Discussion questions: Does the disruption usually come from inside or outside the family/work group of characters'5 How is ...
Rod Quin, Barrie McMahon, Robyn Quin, 1995
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Television in the Lives of Our Children
Boys Girls Boys Girls Rocky 1 Western Situation comedy Western Situation comedy Adventure Popular music Adventure Popular music Mystery Western Situation comedy Western Situation comedy Mystery Variety-comedy Mystery ...
Wilbur Schramm, 1961
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What's So Funny?: Humor in American Culture
While David Marc provides an historical overview of the television situation comedy in Chapter 14, Lawrence E. Mintz, in the essay that follows, is concerned with how such comedies convey certain values in American culture. Examining the ...
Nancy A. Walker, 1998
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A Comparison of Prime-time Situation Comedy Fathers and Real ...
This study examined the portrayal of fathers in family situation comedies on prime time television.
Janice Kelly, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SITUATION COMEDY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term situation comedy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Peg Lynch, Writer and Star of Early Situation Comedy, Dies at 98
Peg Lynch, who wrote and starred in “Ethel and Albert,” one of television's earliest situation comedies, died on Friday at her home in Becket, Mass. She was 98. «New York Times, Jul 15»
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'The Jim Gaffigan Show' review: Sitcom hit of the summer
He's to the point in this single-camera comedy, the point being that Gaffigan's ... laughing out loud so consistently at a situation comedy maybe, um, ever. «Newsday, Jul 15»
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HBO's 'The Brink' Puts The Situation Room In Situation Comedy
HBO's new comedy The Brink refers to a world on the brink of nuclear warfare — possibly one of the least-funny premises imaginable. But the two brothers who ... «NPR, Jun 15»
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One Class, One Day: Situation Comedy
Laughs and structure both matter, Paul Schneider tells students in his situation comedy class: Jayne Lee (COM'16) (clockwise from left), Nandini Srinivasan, ... «BU Today, Jun 15»
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There Will Be Less Than 1 Hour of Situation Comedy on NBC This Fall
Has NBC has given up on comedy? Some sources think so, at least as far as the 2015 Fall schedule is concerned. Entertainment Weekly figured out that this fall, ... «The Interrobang, May 15»
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Craig Ferguson Returns To Primetime In New Comedy Pilot 'The …
Now it seems Ferguson is due to return to primetime television as star in a new situation comedy called The King of 7B, according to the Hollywood Reporter. «The Inquisitr, Mar 15»
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Britain's Channel 4 says Irish Famine comedy proposal will go ahead
Channel 4's head of comedy Phil Clarke has said his organization will continue to work on developing a situation comedy based on the Irish famine, saying they ... «IrishCentral, Feb 15»
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Theatre Arts-Film School team to produce situation comedy
15, 2014) - The Scottsdale Community College Theatre Arts Department and the school's Film School are teaming up again to produce a situation comedy that ... «SCC News, Sep 14»
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NBC Still Can't Figure Out Comedy, Asks America for Help
Pitches must be for a live-action, 30-minute situation comedy (sorry, Family Guy ripoffs). Submissions are then judged by NBC reviewers ("employees from ... «The Wire, Apr 14»
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David Baddiel and Twitter: a situation comedy for the social media era
The comedy writer and performer has devised Sit.com, an ambitious new show for Channel 4 at whose heart is the internet's dominance of domestic life. «The Independent, Dec 13»
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