Hit Too Close To Home

sitcom

laughter

trivia

1980s

is what network television does best: put witticisms in the mouths of performing yuppies and remind us when to laugh.

What network television does best: put witticisms in the mouths of performing yuppies and remind us when to laugh.

is the perfect allegory of life. Essentially all that happens is that people come in and go out of doors.

TV sitcoms are the perfect allegory of life. Essentially all that happens is that people come in and go out of doors.

is one day going to be seen as the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable.

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable.

sitcom, n.Definitions

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