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SIT-COM: SITUATIONAL COMEDY. right?

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From: Bapopik at AOL.COM [mailto:Bapopik at AOL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 7:51 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Shitcom


   I saw Steven Berkoff's one-man show, SHAKESPEARE'S VILLAINS: A
MASTERCLASS IN EVIL, today at the Public Theater.  Go see it--it's been
extended.  The guy is funny.  His web site is:
www.east-productions.demon.co.uk
   My companion this time was an actress from Australia (wherever that is).
Unfortunately, I didn't take her to COPENHAGEN so we could sleep together on
the first date.
   Berkoff said that you often see "star" actors doing Shakespeare, such as
those from "shitcoms."
   Shitcoms?
   I very rarely hear "shitcom"--perhaps because you can't say "shit" on tv.
My date told me that it isn't used in Australia.  It's not in the GB-leaning
CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG.
   Anybody run across it before?
   FWIW, Berkoff things that "Puck" is a little euphemism that his audiences
recognized.