Situation comedy

Anyone who owns a television had watched a sitcom of some kind. Ether it’s a good episode of Big Bang Theory or a whole season of How I Met Your Mother we all had experience a sitcom. A sitcom or situation comedy is a kind of genre that forces on a set of characters in a certain environment. Each episode would have an event that will affect the characters in the show, and then those characters will react in a comical way. Over the decades of sitcoms airing on television, certain sitcoms started to

staple in the suburban living room. This device replaced the radio as a family 's focal point for news and entertainment. In the mid-fifties, a new form of entertainment emerged, the family situation comedy (sitcom). The show, “Father Knows Best” was credited as the first successful form of the new style of comedy in 1954, and would have an extended run in broadcast and syndication for the next thirteen years plus spawn many imitators such as “Leave it to Beaver”. (Taflinger, 1996) Because of their

A Comparative of Sitcoms A situation comedy, or sitcom, is defined as a comedy series involving the same characters in various day-to-day situations which are developed as separate stories for each episode (Dictionary.com). The structure of a sitcom has not changed much since its inception on radio, but the characters and premises of the show change with the different times the shows are based in. This paper will focus on the history of sitcoms as they made the transition from radio to television

Representing the middle class in media predates modern entertainment to Victorian times, when music-halls and novels entertained audiences with exaggerations of life. These early reflections influenced the way television comedies do today. According to Banville (2011), “All of these cultural forms have one thing in common, the goal of representing the livid experiences of ourselves and others to both ourselves and others” (p. 17). Although the medium changed from music-hall to sitcom, being middle

The Office Jim Benson notes that studios were being a bit precatious in developing a new wave of sitcoms as comedy had seen a slump in the decade before unable to emulate the success of Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends and Seinfeld. This slump in interest from the US market was believed to be because the modern viewer didn 't have the same connection the family home life and domestic situations as the generation before, therefore just like Neale and Krutnik pointed out something new had to be added

first episode. The rest of the series consists of the duo’s wacky misadventures. Meanwhile, Drake’s mischievous little sister, Maegan, plays pranks on the two in a constant attempt to make their lives miserable. The genre of the show is situational comedy (sitcom) and its target audiences are preteens and younger

Black-ish The television show Black-ish has caused many controversial discussion and opinions. The sitcom features three generations of an African American family, the Johnsons, which includes a successful executive Andre; his wife Rainbow, who is a doctor; their four kids: Andre Jr., Zoey, Jack, Diane, and Andre’s parents Pops and Ruby living in a predominantly white suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles. The theme centers around how Andre came from a poor black neighborhood and his kids don’t seem

from Jerry Seinfeld's observational humor, was voted as the "Greatest Show of All Time" by TV Guide in 2002. According to the show's official website, the ratings for the syndicated version of Seinfeld are ahead of many of the current primetime comedies ("Seinfeld" 2/5). "Seinfeld" was always present in my home during its nine-year run on Thursday nights as "Must See TV," and the social

Fighting Charges of Assimilation in Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and The Cosby Show The critical reception of The Cosby Show, an enormously popular television sitcom in the 1980's, roughly paralleled that of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's highly acclaimed play of the 1950's. Both the television series and the play helped change the way Blacks are portrayed in the entertainment media. But despite being initially greeted with critical praise, both subsequently fell under heavy

is thicker than water.” A saying commonly heralded by family members in order to reaffirm the importance of family unity. These words spoke loudly to the entertainment industry as they were trying to create new content for television. Situational comedies were quite popular, but there was a lack of relation to family audiences. The most logical step was to combine the two. Since then, the family sitcom is becoming the yearly ritual for television pilots. Furthermore, the question remains; Have family