Sentence examples for situational comedy from inspiring English sources

"Aristophanes is all about political satire and [vulgar] jokes, but Roman comedy is much more about comedic situations and plots with set characters". And even though situational comedy trumps political satire with Casina (think Modern Family versus The Daily Show), it's no less funny.

That's situational comedy and that's not real.

She wasn't doing situational comedy; she was trying to find characters to fill out her sketches.

"I am interested in what I call situational comedy," Mr. Andersson continued.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975): In the opening scenes of this situational comedy, a man (Jack Nicholson?) enters a large building.

What begins as a sort-of love triangle dovetails into a delightfully dry exploration of sexual politics, ripe with striking idiosyncratic characters and wry situational comedy.

They also advertised at a higher rate on what Mr. Feltus called "situational comedies" and "contemporary humor" — slightly edgier comedies like "Outsourced," "Two and a Half Men," "Cougar Town" and "30 Rock".

Through a situational-comedy about a Taiwanese kid and his family moving to the suburbs of Orlando and trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.

Every other time, the network has used it as a situational replacement for a comedy it had hoped could do better than "Rules".

The duo instead performed what is now called sketch comedy: short, situational scenes that used sharp juxtaposition and crossed intent to climb, like a Da Vinci staircase, to fantastically ironic peaks.

The characters are static, and the comedy is situational rather than dramatic.