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* In a comic that parodies JackChick's ''Lisa'', a man who sexually abuses his daughter, suddenly feels ridden with guilt over what he have done to his child, and decides that only God can forgive him for his crimes. After having confessed to a priest, who bestows forgiveness on him, the man heads home, feeling like a new, happier person, ready to start completely over... with abusing his daughter again.
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* ''MonsieurVerdoux'', CharlieChaplin's classic daring comedy about a SerialKiller.
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* ''DeathToSmoochy''
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* ''DrawnTogether''
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* TheOnion often has brilliant examples of this sort of humor, consider ''[[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43212 More Americans Falling For 'Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work' Schemes]]'' and [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34165 the most depressing Onion article ever,]] [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-never-wanted-you-vs-mommy-please-come-home,11560/ or the other most depressing Onion article ever]] (both of which, IMO, [[CrossingTheLineTwice Cross The Line Twice]] and then cross it again and head ''way'' over into actually really depressing territory).

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* TheOnion often has brilliant examples of this sort of humor, consider ''[[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43212 More Americans Falling For 'Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work' Schemes]]'' and [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34165 the most depressing Onion article ever,]] [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-never-wanted-you-vs-mommy-please-come-home,11560/ or the other most depressing Onion article ever]] (both [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/kidnapped-boy-found-safe-imagines-kidnapped-boy,2597/ ...or this third, even MORE depressing Onion article]] (all three of which, IMO, [[CrossingTheLineTwice Cross The Line Twice]] and then cross it again and head ''way'' over into actually really depressing territory).
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** The above line was originally "I want to have your abortion." When asked to change it to something a teensy bit less offensive, they got what you see above; horrified at what might be written after another request, they let it be.
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* Shallow Grave, the breakout film for a young Ewan McGreggor, is a British black comedy about three roommates who put out a classified ad for a fourth person to fill in an empty spot in their flat. They heckle most of the applicants, until finding someone they all agree would make a fine roommate. Or so they think... [[spoiler: Turns out he's a drug runner for the mafia and, shortly after he moves in, the three find him dead in his room of a drug overdose, with a large briefcase full of money lying next to him. They make the decision to not report the crime, dismember the body, and keep the money for themselves.]] [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and psycopathy) ensue.]]
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**It's real old time slapstick comedy, it' like 2 pies in the face and one in a field in Pennsylvania.
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* The {{Worms}} computer game series.
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Black comedy, also known as black humour or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously (death, mass murder, suicide, domestic violence, disease, insanity, fear, drug abuse, rape, war, terrorism, etc.) are treated in a satirical manner while still being portrayed as the tragedies they are.

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Black comedy, also known as black humour or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously (death, mass murder, regular amounts of murder, suicide, domestic violence, disease, insanity, fear, drug abuse, rape, war, terrorism, etc.) are treated in a satirical manner while still being portrayed as the tragedies they are.
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* ''TheHauntedMansion'' has quite a bit of this mixed in with all the NightmareFuel.
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* A few of the games the gang plays in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' counts as this. Once they talked about what they would use if they were to kill someone and how. Another time Mion sent everyone to look for body pieces at the dump. Knowing the series, this is usually foreshadowing or a plot point.
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Just remember that the last laugh is on you''
-->--'''{{Monty Python}}''''s ''LifeOfBrian'', "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

->"It's like having a stand-up comedian at the Holocaust!"
-->--'''TheNostalgiaCritic''' on Rik Mayall in ''DropDeadFred''

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->"It's like having a stand-up comedian at the Holocaust!"
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If BlackComedy shows up in a series that doesn't ordinarily deal with grim subject matter so cavalierly, it's a BlackComedyBurst.
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** This has always been AlanMoore's principal sense of humor. You're always going to find, at least, one moment like this in anything he writes. His work from ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' is especially notable as black comedy is usually the entire driving force behind all his stories published there.

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** This has always been AlanMoore's principal sense of humor. You're always going to find, find at least, least one moment like this in anything he writes. His work from ''[=~2000 AD~=]'' is especially notable as black comedy is usually the entire driving force behind all his stories published there.
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--> * Deadshot kills the Russian General

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** From their appearance in ''BirdsOfPrey'':
--> *Deadshot kills the Russian General
--> Deadshot: "Self-defense. He obviously had a gun."
--> Hawkgirl: "He ''didn't'' have a gun."
--> Deadshot: "Okay, so it was murder. Who cares?"
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** Correction: Should have died, but hasn't yet.
*** "It's so dark, daddy. So daaaaaaark...."
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-->--'''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]]''' on Rik Mayall in ''DropDeadFred''

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* ''TheXFiles'' episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," is [[ActuallyPrettyFunny surprisingly funny]] considering its all about the terrible NightmareFuel that results from being able to see the future accurately and the inevitability of death. Very, very grim. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny But also very, very funny]].
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* ''BeingThere'' (and its source novella) starts with the death of an old businessman and the expulsion of his mentally challenged gardener into an outside world he's never seen beyond its presentation on [=TV=]. The story that ensues has him rise to considerable power solely because most of the people he encounters don't realize he's an idiot and interpret his comments about gardening as metaphors. And there's more death to come as he becomes the confidante of a dying billionaire...Distressing on the surface, extremely funny and even touching in its execution.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GhP8QY0llI This]] [[CandidCameraPrank hidden camera mailbox prank]] seems innocent enough, [[DeadlyPrank right]]?

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GhP8QY0llI This]] [[CandidCameraPrank hidden camera mailbox prank]] seems innocent enough, [[DeadlyPrank right]]?
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* PushingDaisies seemed like the writers were competing to make the most gruesome death imaginable while still counting as slapstick.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GhP8QY0llI This]] [[CandidCameraPrank hidden camera mailbox prank]] seems innocent enough, [[DeadlyPrank right]]?
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* The narration in ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'' sometimes leads to this, mostly as a result of combination of LemonyNarrator, SophisticatedAsHell and {{Understatement}}.
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* The film "FunnyGames".
* ''CemeteryMan''

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* The film "FunnyGames".
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* ''LittleMissSunshine''

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