On the simplest level, the show works as a raucous parody that sends up the hokey conventions of the sitcom genre.

The television people have names for some of the main sitcom genres.

The sitcom genre is also beginning to branch out to new venues.

Wright gave Spaced an unusual look for the sitcom genre, with dramatic camera angles and movement borrowed from the visual language of science fiction and horror films.

His radio and television programs, popular from the 1930s to the 1960s, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.

Following the finales of Friends and Frasier, media critics speculated about the fate of the sitcom genre.

"The Cosby Show" is widely credited with reviving the sitcom genre on television, but it had a far wider social importance.

Mr. Byrne acknowledges a lack of affinity for the sitcom genre.

The Flintstones, which debuted in 1960, is considered the first example of the animated sitcom genre.

The success of The Simpsons led to a boom in the animated sitcom genre.