This is basically feel-good sitcom humor, albeit of a high order, in which the jokes are more important than what contains them.
Despite its high concept, the show frequently falls back on banal sitcom humor and is never as funny as the annoying laugh track suggests.
This well-intentioned film is contaminated by its detours into sitcom humor.
In addition, musical comedy and sitcom humor displaced wit, a failing shared with most American opera companies (including the Met).
The dialogue, which in the early part of the film is as off-the-wall as it should be, has by this time taken on the cadences of sitcom humor.
The script is awful, but as a first episode it suggests the broad sitcom humor and visual jokes the series is going for.
IT was in 1986 that Catherine Keener decided that sitcom humor might not be her calling.
They fulfill our need for group experience - all of us laughing along with a studio audience at the comforting cadence of sitcom humor.