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Originally posted by WRX Goddess
Well I don’t know how you can say Las Vegas isn’t a sit-com. It is an ongoing show that develops the characters through comedy and drama. I would think that Las Vegas is a mix between domcom and dramedy. Shoot it might even have some actcom in it too.
“The situation comedy, in television vernacular, is called the sitcom. However, this term applies to all types of situation comedy, and, as I will show, there are three distinct types of sitcom. For clarity, I will substitute terms for each type: actcom for the action comedy, domcom for the domestic comedy, and dramedy for the dramatic comedy.”
“The domcom is more expansive than the actcom, having a wider variety of events and a greater sense of seriousness. It involves more people, both in the regular cast and in transient actors brought into individual episodes.”
“A dramedy is the rarest and most serious type of sitcom; its entire being is not devoted to evoking laughter from the audience. Its emphasis is on thought, often presenting themes that are not humorous: war, death, crime, aging, unemployment, racism, sexism, etc. The humor is more comic intensification than an end in itself.”
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html
How is Las Vegas not a sit-com? Shoot I am still trying to figure out what a sit-com is now. You confused me, meanie :P
Well I don’t know how you can say Las Vegas isn’t a sit-com. It is an ongoing show that develops the characters through comedy and drama. I would think that Las Vegas is a mix between domcom and dramedy. Shoot it might even have some actcom in it too.
“The situation comedy, in television vernacular, is called the sitcom. However, this term applies to all types of situation comedy, and, as I will show, there are three distinct types of sitcom. For clarity, I will substitute terms for each type: actcom for the action comedy, domcom for the domestic comedy, and dramedy for the dramatic comedy.”
“The domcom is more expansive than the actcom, having a wider variety of events and a greater sense of seriousness. It involves more people, both in the regular cast and in transient actors brought into individual episodes.”
“A dramedy is the rarest and most serious type of sitcom; its entire being is not devoted to evoking laughter from the audience. Its emphasis is on thought, often presenting themes that are not humorous: war, death, crime, aging, unemployment, racism, sexism, etc. The humor is more comic intensification than an end in itself.”
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html
How is Las Vegas not a sit-com? Shoot I am still trying to figure out what a sit-com is now. You confused me, meanie :P
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