Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media.

Describes the writing method called premise-driven comedy, examines how comedy affects character development and story structure, discusses guidelines on script

This book offers an overview of the debates surrounding the sitcom genre.

This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises. By drawing on Gra