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situation comedy

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situation comedy
a comedy drama, esp. a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
[1945-50]

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Radio or television comedy series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of episodes.

Often the characters are markedly different types thrown together by circumstance and occupying a shared environment such as an apartment building or workplace. Typically half an hour in length and either taped in front of a studio audience or employing canned applause, they are marked by verbal sparring and rapidly resolved conflicts.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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