Sneering Imperialist
The best kind of comedy.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
The worst kind of comedy.
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
'80s TV Action Hero
The funniest comedy. Very useful in my line of work, too. Keeps us sane.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Freelance Worrywart
I love Black Comedy. I don't really have much to add, other than I find it bloody funny.
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
'80s TV Action Hero
Bloody and funny.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Freelance Worrywart
Exactement.
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
God Of Cake
It depends. I hate when stuff is dark for the sake of being dark, but I love a good Gallows Humor kinda thing. To quote one of my favorite articles,
'80s TV Action Hero
The thing is that it has to be actually funny.
My sense of humour is really, really dark. I generally tone it down on here and spare you 'hilarious' anecdotes like what my friend calls 'the flying mince story', because they wouldn't be funny to you. Hell, they're only funny to me if I don't think about them too much.
To be honest, I just don't know how else to cope with life.
EDIT: Wow. That went real Emo, real fast.
edited 12th Oct '12 10:00:25 AM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
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If you don't mind me asking, what is your line of work? Is it like a soldier? I bet being in a war makes people very open to the idea of Black Comedy! 
'80s TV Action Hero
I was a soldier, once. I'm a coastguard officer these days, though.
I think the stuff I deal with now is worse, in a way. Death and heartache out of nowhere. No war, no civil unrest, just a family picnic or a fishing trip gone horribly wrong.
I think I'm happier when people are trying to kill me than when I'm sitting there, all nice and safe, trying to get information from a woman whose kid is drowning right in front of her.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Well, look on the bright side...maybe she'll tell you, "Aw, forget it! Let the little brat drown! I can just make more!" 
Like this:
my current job
Black Comedy and Dude, Not Funny! do seem to have a connection. It's when someone (like me) tries to find the fine line between the two that they become confusing.
The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan!
Jones is, like, a professional Scotsman (together with Bat Pencil, Achaemenid, Tam H 70 and others).
Anyway, for a moment I parsed the title of this thread as "Comedy starring black people".
edited 21st Jul '14 3:35:55 PM by MidnightRambler
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
Life is like Betty Crocker frosting. Mediocre.
Comedy is based off reality. And death, my friends, is everyone's reality. There's your John Green-esque quote.
You are a lovely human being.
The Great One
My sense of humour is really, really dark. I generally tone it down on here and spare you 'hilarious' anecdotes like what my friend calls 'the flying mince story', because they wouldn't be funny to you. Hell, they're only funny to me if I don't think about them too much.
To be honest, I just don't know how else to cope with life.
EDIT: Wow. That went real Emo, real fast.
Same here, man. In real life I actually tend to be more flippant and have a kind of morbid sense of humor, largely as a coping mechanism. And yeah like you said the thing a lot of people get wrong when they try black comedy is they forget the comedy part of it. When done wrong it just comes across as trying too hard.
"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. Patton
my current job
Okay, that does seem to make the line a bit more visible...
The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
I'm a professional Scotsman now, am I?
Not any more I'm not. 
'80s TV Action Hero
Have you retired and become a Canadian, as per tradition?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
my current job
What's all that got to do with Black Comedy?
The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
'80s TV Action Hero
Not a damned thing.
Welcome to Yack Fest.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
my current job
...Hamster Jelly?
The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
'80s TV Action Hero
When it's spring again
I'll bring again
Tulips from Hamster Jam...
edited 26th Jul '14 1:28:24 PM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
my current job
Do you know how they make Hamster Jelly?
The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
Out of hamsters?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Black Comedy is a that kind of topic that I find interesting.
Why? Because it can be very hit-and-miss. When it hits, it's perfect! When it misses, it just blows up in everyone's face, and not in a good way!
I consider Pearls Before Swine to be a hit most of the time when it comes to BC. I like how the cartoonist is willing to go into areas that most newspaper comics nowadays wouldn't even dare touch on!
I consider Jennifer Blood to be a miss most of the time when it comes to BC. The title character is a very unsympathetic character who has only gotten worse with murdering her own husband just because he called her out on her actions and threatened to go to the police. Tell me again why that's supposed to be considered funny?
Oh, Equestria, we stand on guard for thee!