sitcomn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪtkɒm/, U.S.

/ˈsɪtˌkɑm/

Forms: 1900s– sit com, 1900s– sit-com, 1900s– sit.-com. (with points), 1900s– sitcom.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds.

Etymology: Shortened < situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds.

Originally U.S.

A television or radio comedy series involving a regular cast of characters in a succession of amusing situations or circumstances, typically presented in 30-minute episodes and filmed or recorded before a live studio audience. Cf. situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme

dramedy1905

news film1912

sex comedy1915

television adaptation1935

action comedy1936

sportcast1939

teleshopper1949

telethon1949

special1952

television special1952

TV special1952

science-fictioner1953

spectacular1954

promo1955

sitcom1956

spec1959

spin-off1959

reality programming1962

teleroman1964

mockumentary1965

serialization1965

talk show1965

laugh-in1967

novela1968

reality show1968

breakfast television1971

spy series1975

reality television1978

reality TV1980

series1988

shockumentary1988

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy

Old Comedy1529

New Comedy1542

comedy of errors?1595

romantic comedy1748

musical comedy1765

comédie larmoyante1773

sketch1789

serio-comedy1808

vaudeville1827

teacup-and-saucer comedy1842

satyr play1845

Restoration comedy1866

zarzuela1888

situation comedy1893

sex comedy1915

sitcom1956

1956 Variety 26 Sept. 23/2 The perils of filming situation comedies in a day and age when all the odds are against the ‘sit com’ format.

1956 Sponsor 24 Nov. 44 Sponsored Daytime Network Programs... Our Miss Brooks..CBS..Sit Com.

1963 Amazing Stories Mar. 79/1 A good sitcom to get you into the day.

1964 Life 18 Sept. 24/2 Even Bing Crosby has succumbed to series TV and will appear in a sitcom as an electrical engineer who happens to break into song once a week.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 14/4 A domestic sitcom about a pair of newlyweds.

2016 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 June 3 Lane created several popular sitcoms including ‘The Liver Birds’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as sitcom pilot, sitcom writer, etc.

ΚΠ

1956 Variety 26 Sept. 23/2 The perils of filming situation comedies in a day and age when all the odds are against the ‘sit com’ format.

1972 P. Black Biggest Aspidistra iii. v. 195 The..sitcom shows..Dear Dotty and Friends and Neighbours.

1975 Daily News (Jennings, Louisiana) 19 Mar. 14 Brooks..will produce the sitcom pilot ‘When Things Were Rotten’ for Paramount television.

1985 Financial Times 12 June 21/5 British sitcom writers who try their luck in the U.S. often throw up their hands in horror at the hard-nosed attitude of American television executives.

1990 T. C. Boyle East is East i. 32 She would turn, smiling radiantly.., with all the forced cheer of a sitcom housewife.

1991 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. ii. 13/4 Ms. Lewis was so frustrated by her sitcom roles that she ended each day in tears.

2014 S. Austerlitz Sitcom xiii. 198 In ‘A Stash from the Past’, the Conners face what is perhaps the quintessential sitcom-family dilemma of the era.

C2.

sitcom-land n. the sitcom industry; (also) the world as characteristically depicted in sitcoms.

ΚΠ

1965 Canad. Forum May 40/2 The line between silliness and original, kooky, comic inspiration is a very thin one indeed, but whoever it is that holds the power of decision in sitcom land has managed to obliterate it without any difficulty at all.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Feb. Will this show succeed, with its novel subject and style? It would take a great deal of adjustment by audiences, raised on the cliches of sitcomland.

1990 Esquire May 64/2 It takes you out of the ‘real’ world..and can place you at..the cartoony living rooms of Sitcom Land.

2014 Independent (Nexis) 18 July 47 In sitcom-land the two-series classics Fawlty Towers and The Office are usually held up as models of admirable restraint.

Derivatives

ˈsitcomish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of a sitcom; cf. sitcomy adj.

ΚΠ

1980 Cinefantastique Spring 5/3 [The film's] space-age premise was nimbly side-stepped in order to concentrate on an essentially sitcom-ish scenario.

2013 Time Out N.Y. 23 May 75/4 A white couple tries to adopt an African child in Tanya Barfield's fidgety, sitcomish drama.

ˈsitcomy adj. = sitcomish adj.

ΚΠ

1983 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 8 Oct. (Entertainer section) 7 d The two halves of last Monday's show were distinctly different in style.., the second brisker, funnier, but more ‘sitcomy’.

2013 Times (Nexis) 29 Mar. 33 It's a sitcomy theatrical experience.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sitcom
释义	sitcomn. Brit. /ˈsɪtkɒm/, U.S. /ˈsɪtˌkɑm/ Forms: 1900s– sit com, 1900s– sit-com, 1900s– sit.-com. (with points), 1900s– sitcom. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds. Etymology: Shortened < situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds. Originally U.S. A television or radio comedy series involving a regular cast of characters in a succession of amusing situations or circumstances, typically presented in 30-minute episodes and filmed or recorded before a live studio audience. Cf. situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme dramedy1905 news film1912 sex comedy1915 television adaptation1935 action comedy1936 sportcast1939 teleshopper1949 telethon1949 special1952 television special1952 TV special1952 science-fictioner1953 spectacular1954 promo1955 sitcom1956 spec1959 spin-off1959 reality programming1962 teleroman1964 mockumentary1965 serialization1965 talk show1965 laugh-in1967 novela1968 reality show1968 breakfast television1971 spy series1975 reality television1978 reality TV1980 series1988 shockumentary1988 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 1956 Variety 26 Sept. 23/2 The perils of filming situation comedies in a day and age when all the odds are against the ‘sit com’ format. 1956 Sponsor 24 Nov. 44 Sponsored Daytime Network Programs... Our Miss Brooks..CBS..Sit Com. 1963 Amazing Stories Mar. 79/1 A good sitcom to get you into the day. 1964 Life 18 Sept. 24/2 Even Bing Crosby has succumbed to series TV and will appear in a sitcom as an electrical engineer who happens to break into song once a week. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 14/4 A domestic sitcom about a pair of newlyweds. 2016 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 June 3 Lane created several popular sitcoms including ‘The Liver Birds’. Compounds C1. General attributive, as sitcom pilot, sitcom writer, etc. ΚΠ 1956 Variety 26 Sept. 23/2 The perils of filming situation comedies in a day and age when all the odds are against the ‘sit com’ format. 1972 P. Black Biggest Aspidistra iii. v. 195 The..sitcom shows..Dear Dotty and Friends and Neighbours. 1975 Daily News (Jennings, Louisiana) 19 Mar. 14 Brooks..will produce the sitcom pilot ‘When Things Were Rotten’ for Paramount television. 1985 Financial Times 12 June 21/5 British sitcom writers who try their luck in the U.S. often throw up their hands in horror at the hard-nosed attitude of American television executives. 1990 T. C. Boyle East is East i. 32 She would turn, smiling radiantly.., with all the forced cheer of a sitcom housewife. 1991 N.Y. Times 24 Nov. ii. 13/4 Ms. Lewis was so frustrated by her sitcom roles that she ended each day in tears. 2014 S. Austerlitz Sitcom xiii. 198 In ‘A Stash from the Past’, the Conners face what is perhaps the quintessential sitcom-family dilemma of the era. C2. sitcom-land n. the sitcom industry; (also) the world as characteristically depicted in sitcoms. ΚΠ 1965 Canad. Forum May 40/2 The line between silliness and original, kooky, comic inspiration is a very thin one indeed, but whoever it is that holds the power of decision in sitcom land has managed to obliterate it without any difficulty at all. 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Feb. Will this show succeed, with its novel subject and style? It would take a great deal of adjustment by audiences, raised on the cliches of sitcomland. 1990 Esquire May 64/2 It takes you out of the ‘real’ world..and can place you at..the cartoony living rooms of Sitcom Land. 2014 Independent (Nexis) 18 July 47 In sitcom-land the two-series classics Fawlty Towers and The Office are usually held up as models of admirable restraint. Derivatives ˈsitcomish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of a sitcom; cf. sitcomy adj. ΚΠ 1980 Cinefantastique Spring 5/3 [The film's] space-age premise was nimbly side-stepped in order to concentrate on an essentially sitcom-ish scenario. 2013 Time Out N.Y. 23 May 75/4 A white couple tries to adopt an African child in Tanya Barfield's fidgety, sitcomish drama. ˈsitcomy adj. = sitcomish adj. ΚΠ 1983 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 8 Oct. (Entertainer section) 7 d The two halves of last Monday's show were distinctly different in style.., the second brisker, funnier, but more ‘sitcomy’. 2013 Times (Nexis) 29 Mar. 33 It's a sitcomy theatrical experience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1956
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