Sitcom Defined

Sitcom Defined

Sitcom is short for situation comedy. It’s a type of television comedy that relies on the characters dealing with a new situation every week. Although the cast and setting stays essentially the same, the story lines for every episode are largely independent of other episodes.
Sub-plots can develop over several episodes, an entire season or even the series. For example, Ross and Rachel developed their relationship over pretty much the entire series of Friends.
Sitcoms are usually associated with series filmed or taped on multiple cameras before a live audience, but “single camera” shows, without a live audience can also qualify.
I Love Lucy, Happy Days, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Scrubs, Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory and Curb Your Enthusiasm are all classic examples of sitcoms.

A sitcom-situation comedy is a clever device where by you don’t have to invent a new situation/environment for every episode, eg., Fawly Towers was always in their hotel. It gives a situation for the characters to inhabit, react to/against, with the ability to bring in new characters or developing new situations for the characters within their environment. Sitcoms can be on radio, tv, films such as Carry On’s where they always had the same actors largely playing the same characters but in different environments/situations, all those Police Academy films, sitcoms can be novels or short stories, or even a single person speaking a funny monologue anchored in a situation/environment. Frankly I can’t get enough of them.


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