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Discuss the ways in which situation comedy can be analysed in ideological terms Situation Comedy (or Sitcom) began in Britain in the late 1960's. It is a narrative series comedy and is usually 25-30 minutes per episode and focuses more on the 'situations' the characters get themselves into rather than the comedian as a performer. Because the sitcom is more of a 'series' rather than a 'serial' viewers get to know the characters and can relate, in a broad sense, to their everyday lives and the situations they get themselves into. Sitcoms have been extremely popular since they began and have continuously dominated the airwaves in Britain and America. The continuing popularity of the television situation comedy can be accredited to two complementary characteristics: '..(1) Its multivalent social ideologies and mores that function within the larger framework of liberal democratic ideology and (2) the commercial system that produces and distributes the...

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