History Main / BlackComedy

It is neither ToiletHumour, which seeks to gross out the audience, nor VulgarHumor, since black humor can be delivered without swearing. It oftentimes takes the form of RefugeInAudacity, while incorporating elements of the aforementioned forms of humor. What makes it different is that the theme of the comedy gravitates towards topics that are considered to be "dark" and/or taboo (such as depression, death, atrocities, racism, poverty, etc.) This form of humor will usually go beyond the mere act of telling jokes, some works focusing instead on situational comedy, ''Film/DrStrangelove'' being one example. Movies that alternate between comedy and tragedy, like ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', are not black comedy, since by definition Black Comedy draws humor from the tragic parts. To sum it up, black humor is a type of comedy that deals with negative aspects of life, deriving humor due to it being shocking and unexpected, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' having dead babies singing for example, being shockingly cruel (and thus unexpected), and in part because it often reflects a truth that might be too grim to state seriously, something quite common for example in [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Russia]], and quite abundant in political humor.

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* [[BlackComedy/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, dark humor or gallows humor, is a sub-genre of {{comedy}} and {{satire}} where topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a satirical manner, while still being portrayed as the negative events that they are. Typical targets are death, violence, crime, murder, suicide, insanity, disability, paraphilias, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, animal abuse, rape, pedophilia, castration, cannibalism, necrophilia, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: When a joke is so blatantly offensive that it becomes funny instead.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Jokes about children suffering from {{parental abuse}} or other traumatic experiences.

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, dark humor or gallows humor, is a sub-genre of {{comedy}} and {{satire}} where topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a satirical manner, while still being portrayed as the negative events that they are. Typical targets are death, violence, crime, murder, suicide, insanity, disability, paraphilias, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, animal abuse, rape, pedophilia, castration, cannibalism, necrophilia, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].