What is "sitcom"

Usage examples of "sitcom".

For example, the relatively plotless part 1 presents itself as a hyperintelligent TV sitcom, complete with brainy children, zany friends, and banal conflicts.

Farrow rode up to the third floor, where patrons were already lining up for the ten-thirty show featuring sitcom star Mike Minner and the usual accompaniment of barely clad show girls.

Now, as the sitcom inside continued, agents in the lot outside were getting angry.

I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

Maybe I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

What I heard from the creative side was that a number of first-rate writer-producers would be interested in working with me on a new sitcom.

CBS was hosting that night at the Bonaventure to promote its new midseason sitcom.

It was beautifully staged, with plenty of action, but like the sitcoms, laid in one of those never-never historical settings.

It was what was going on at the time and what still goes on: someone spots a terrific stand-up comic who could become a comedic actor and they want to plug him into a sitcom.

I imagine I thought it was going to be like one of those sitcom depictions of suburbia, with all the identical front doors opening at precisely the same time, and identically dressed men marching down the street together, clutching identical briefcases, brollies and newspapers.

York walked to the TV, where the canned laughter was still rattling from the inane sitcom.

Next thing you know, we'd have sitcom stars and character actors and the soaps banging on the door.

This is nothing but a group of recognizable characters from a popular sitcom plunked down in Disney World discussing the reputed inefficiencies of our Quality Control department!

And for twenty years my Aunt Babe had been forced to laugh at the same old weary sitcom minutiae, over and over and over.

Armand lay sprawled in a huge black velvet wing chair gazing at the television, Ganymede in white pants and white silk shirt, I watching the news, the movies, the tapes he'd made of himself reading poetry, the idiot sitcoms, the dramas, the musicals, the silent films.