Sentence examples for sitcom humor from inspiring English sources

IT was in 1986 that Catherine Keener decided that sitcom humor might not be her calling.

With its sharply written but traditional sitcom humor, "10 Things" is like a lower-budget "Glee," without the songs and the sometimes nasty edge.

The other Postmasters piece, "Take a Deep Breath" (2008), with its combination of shock and sitcom humor, couldn't be more different.

Despite its high concept, the show frequently falls back on banal sitcom humor and is never as funny as the annoying laugh track suggests.

The script is awful, but as a first episode it suggests the broad sitcom humor and visual jokes the series is going for.

Carl Gardner, the spunky tenor who was the lead singer of the original Coasters, whose mixture of rhythm-and-blues, doo-wop and sitcom humor created 1950s hits like "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown" and "Searchin,' " died on Sunday in Port.

A scene in which Henry's college-dropout son (Conor Romero) interviews interns for his still-nonexistent tech start-up with the help of his much younger brother (Jack Gore) taps into the vein of classic family-sitcom humor that's absent in the initial episodes.

The real issue is that even for a sunny sitcom, the humor is tired.

Mr. Morris also encountered what he described as unwitting "sitcom-style" humor in some of his conversations with extremists.

Funny women are much more numerous now, but most of them are in stand-up or in sitcoms whose humor is primarily verbal; and although they are bolder than their predecessors in some ways, they do not, on the whole, look as if they would be comfortable putting on a floppy hat and stuffing their cheeks full of assembly-line chocolates.

The result was creating a show that walked a thin line between conventional family sitcom and zany humor.