Television comedy is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media.
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10 Facts About Television comedy
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The range of television comedy has become broader, with the addition of sitcoms, improvisational comedy, and stand-up comedy, while adding comedic aspects into other television genres, including drama and news.
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Television comedy provides opportunities for viewers to relate the content in these shows to society.
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Improvisational Television comedy is a genre that features actors creating dialogue while in the process of acting.
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News Television comedy is a genre that brings humour into stories reported on mainstream news, commonly adding this by creating mostly-fictional jokes to summarize true events.
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Television comedy stand-up reached a peak of popularity on British schedules with the ITV programme The Comedians.
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Sketch Television comedy programs differ from sitcoms in that they do not basically feature recurring characters and often draw upon current events and emphasize satire over character development.
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Sketch Television comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose Your Show of Shows debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre.
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American sketch Television comedy reached a later peak in the mid-1970s with the debut han Saturday Night Live, originally a variety program but soon devoted mostly to sketches.
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Television comedy is described by media scholar Bore as a way to bring audiences to a collective sense in viewing and enjoying commonly-watched programs across societies.
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