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** SuicideAsComedy: Jokes revolving around [[ChoosingDeath people killing themselves]].

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, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

It is not quite ToiletHumour, which is just gross, neither is it quite VulgarHumor, since it can be delivered quite easily without swearing. It often times takes the form of RefugeInAudacity, while incorporating elements of the above mentioned forms of humor. What makes it different though, is that the theme of the comedy would tend to gravitate 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.

This trope is [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not to be confused]] with BlackSitcom or UncleTomfoolery. It's also not exactly about comedians with the surname "Black" (such as Creator/JackBlack and Creator/LewisBlack), or comedians who have Black African ancestry (i.e. Creator/RichardPryor, Dick Gregory, Creator/EddieMurphy, or Creator/ChrisRock), although they all may occasionally engage in some dark humor.

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, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

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** ShockSite: Showing to someone something sexually or violently disturbing out of nowhere on the Internet is portrayed as funny.

* BlackComedyPetDeath: Jokes about pets dying.

** SubvertedKidsShow: A common variant is to make a [[SubvertedInnocence twisted parody of a]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids work of children's media]]; filling it up with adult content such as uncensored profanity, graphic depictions of sexuality, and very gory violence.

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

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Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]]. Black comedy usually derives humor from such topics either through cartoonish exaggeration (without entering the domain of uncomfortable realism) or sheer bluntness. A stellar example of the former is a scene in which an animal-loving assassin accidentally runs over an old woman's dog in ''Film/AFishCalledWanda''; the reveal of the dead dog was originally filmed with realistic gore effects, which audiences found uncomfortable and unfunny. The scene was then altered to have the dog simply be flattened a-la Wile E. Coyote, which removes the disturbing realism and becomes darkly hilarious instead (said animal-loving assassin's inevitably horrified reaction to the event further aids in this).

* DarkParody: A parody that's much darker than the work it's parodying.

This trope is [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not to be confused]] with BlackSitcom or UncleTomfoolery. It's also not exactly about comedians with the surname "Black" (such as Creator/JackBlack and Creator/LewisBlack), or comedians who have Black African ancestry (i.e. Creator/RichardPryor, Dick Gregory, Creator/EddieMurphy, or Creator/ChrisRock), although they all may occasionally engage in some dark humor. A DarkParody generally relies on black comedy.

This trope is [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not to be confused]] with BlackSitcom or UncleTomfoolery. It's also not exactly about comedians with the surname "Black" (such as Creator/JackBlack and Creator/LewisBlack), or comedians who have Black African ancestry (i.e. Creator/RichardPryor, Dick Gregory, Creator/EddieMurphy, or Creator/ChrisRock), although they all may occasionally engage in some dark humor.

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, stereotypes, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, (mass) murder, suicide, {{blackmail}}, (domestic) violence, disease, insanity, disability, environmental disasters, famine, fear, drug abuse, child abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, bestiality and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, (mass) murder, suicide, {{blackmail}}, (domestic) violence, disease, insanity, disability, environmental disasters, famine, fear, drug abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, bestiality and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, or dark 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, (mass) murder, suicide, {{blackmail}}, (domestic) violence, disease, insanity, disability, environmental disasters, famine, fear, drug abuse, child abuse, rape, castration, cannibalism, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, bestiality and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking line-cutting]].

* KafkaKomedy: A form of dark comedy where the humor is based on misery and misfortune rather than death.
* MeatgrinderSurgery: A surgeon uses surgical tools or does surgical procedures on his patient that no sane surgeon would use or attempt, and has a questionable regard for the patient's well-being.
* PovertyForComedy: Being poor is funny.

*** EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Some villains possess a ''very'' sick and twisted sense of humor to compliment their evil deeds.

This trope is [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not to be confused]] with BlackSitcom or UncleTomfoolery. It's also not exactly about comedians with the surname "Black" (such as Creator/JackBlack and Creator/LewisBlack), or comedians who have Black African ancestry (i.e. Creator/RichardPryor, Creator/EddieMurphy, or Creator/ChrisRock), although they all may occasionally engage in some dark humor.