Sic Coms - What Are They?

A sick com is a portmanteau of situation and comedy, that's right. It looks like that people in the industry were using this term, maybe even back in the radio days of the 19 fifties. There are certain things that do like make a sit com a sitcom. The form has been tweaked and subverted over the years, but it is almost always about aa smallish group of people,. Many, many times it's a family.