Other forms: sitcoms
A sitcom is a funny television series about the same people in the same setting. A classic sitcom, a new sitcom, sitcom writer.
The situation is the point: the same small cast, the same flat or office, and the comedy comes from putting them under pressure and letting them fail to change. Episodes usually reset. The laughter is either a live studio audience or a laugh track, and which one is a long-running argument among writers. Note that sitcom is a clipping of situation comedy, formed from the first syllables of both.
1nounsitcomA funny television series about the same people in the same setting.
“My favourite sitcom follows a group of friends who share a flat in London.”
sitcom is a television genre.
Sitcom is short for situation comedy, made from the first syllables of each word. English forms very few words this way — sitcom, modem, sysadmin — compared with plain clipping.
situation comedy. Such formation from initial syllables is also alternatively classified as clipping of the compound type (producing a clipped compound), and it is sometimes categorized as blending (but blending stricto sensu involves initial and terminal parts of words that may be delimited by reanalysis).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA