History Main / BlackComedyCannibalism

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Murkoph, an actual cannibal, making comments on eating orphans or greeting people by asking to take a bite comes off as comedy as he's trapped in the khert and can't actually get at anyone. For now.

'''Harry:''' Why would I hate that. I am on a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord vegan diet]]. I would never go hungry again.\\

** When Marge's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E11FearOfFlying fear of flying]] resurfaces, Homer tries buying movies of planes to help calm her. [[WhatAnIdiot Of course]] he chooses ''Film/{{Alive}}'' on the basis of its title.

* Several of the killers in ''Criminal Minds'' have been cannibals, including one who fed a victim's body to the people searching for her.

* Done in a Dairy Queen commercial for their popcorn shrimp, with a shrimp couple. The wife asks "Hold on, where are they kids?" after looking at the popcorn shrimp box, they scream in horror, realizing they ate their own children.

** In "Which Came First", a class trip ends up with the cast stranded in the desert. They bring up the possibility of having to eat each other to survive, causing Sperg to see Billy and Irwin with MeatOVision ("You dropped your pickle." "Thanks!"). At the end of the episode they do find food, and Pud'n is relieved that they won't have to eat each other. Cut to Sperg with several legs sticking out of mouth, who then says "Tough luck for you, kid."

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', the Dark Hand have Jackie tied up and are trying to decide on what animal to turn him into using the Monkey Talisman. When they settle on turning him into an animal that they can eat, he pleads that doing so would constitute cannibalism.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', the Dark Hand have Jackie tied up and are trying to decide on what animal to turn him into using the Monkey Talisman. When they settle on turning him into an animal that they can eat, he tries to warn them that eating him will make them cannibals.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Fry Cook Games", Patrick botches a pole vault over a giant deep fryer, overturning it and sending boiling oil into a portion of the audience. A vendor then starts selling the resulting fish sticks for a dollar each.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Fry Cook Games", Patrick botches a pole vault over a deep fryer, overturning it and sending boiling oil into a portion of the audience. A vendor then starts selling the resulting fish sticks for a dollar each.

* The song "Actual Cannibal Shia [=LaBeouf=]" by Rob Cantor is a mock horror about being stalked by Creator/ShiaLaBeouf as a serial killer and cannibal.

* More like Black Comedy SapientEatSapient, because the characters aren't human, but there are [[plenty of gags on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' involving Muppets (bloodlessly) devouring other Muppets alive, to the point that it gets a [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Muppets_eating_other_Muppets dedicated page]] on the Muppets fan wiki.

-->''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', ''"Lifeboat Sketch"''

** The first Valentine's event ("Lady's Chocolate Commotion") opens with a dream sequence of Kiyohime shapeshifting into chocolate and demanding you enjoy all 240,000 calories of her. The real Kiyohime later offers herself to you in place of chocolate, although the implication here is a different kind of "eating".

* In the final chapter of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' it is revealed [[spoiler: that Moka's still addicted to Tsukune's blood despite the fact that he's now a full vampire. There is a narrate box that lampshades that's cannibalism.]]

* During Mac Gargan's stint as ComicBook/{{Venom}}, Gargan's devouring people willy-nilly due to the symbiote's influence was, for the most part, PlayedForLaughs.

A common variant is the gag where the characters are [[CapturedByCannibals captured]] by a CannibalTribe and placed in a pot to be StewedAlive, accompanied with [[YouWontLikeHowITaste lots of wisecracking]] [[RegretEatingMe and/or corny byplay]], and possibly a ''lot'' of puns.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E21SimpsonsTallTales Simpsons Tall Tales]]"" has a Gender Bent version of UsefulNotes/JohnnyAppleseed with Lisa as Connie Appleseed. While she's busy wandering the west planting apple trees, her family have been stranded and driven to starvation due to overhunting the buffalo. Driven to cannibalism, the wagon train is just about to devour Homer, only for Lisa to arrive in the nick of time with apples. As she's hailed as a hero, Moe sticks his head out of Homers blanket with a hunk of flesh on his fork.

** In the first segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVII Treehouse of Horror XXVII]]", a "space marshmallow" turns Homer into a giant, green blob that stomps around the city eating fat people. "You've got an eating problem, and you know it. In fact, you're thinking of eating me right now, aren't you? Aren't you?!"

A common variant is the gag where the characters are [[CapturedByCannibals captured]] by a CannibalTribe and placed in a pot to be StewedAlive, accompanied with [[YouWontLikeHowITaste lots of wisecracking]] [[RegretEatingMe and/or corny byplay]], and possibly a ''lot'' puns.

* Used in two ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' events, with the joke both times being that the would-be food item is your AbhorrentAdmirer [[{{Yandere}} Kiyohime]], and you'd rather not encourage her.
** The first Valentine's event ("Lady's Chocolate Commotion") opens with a dream sequence of Kiyohime shapeshifting into chocolate and demanding you enjoy all 240,000 calories of her. The real Kiyohime later offers herself to you in place of chocolate, although the implication here is a different kind of "eating".
** During the first summer event ("Chaldea Summer Memory"), you are stranded on a tropical island, and Kiyohime offers to be your food if you can't find any, declaring that her serpent form's tail is "probably delicious, [[TastesLikeChicken like chicken]]".

--> '''Cannibal Chief 2''': True. But still better than what we got at the refectory at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumumba_University Lumumba University]].

--> '''Cannibal Chief 2''': True. But still better than what we got at the refectory at Lumumba University.

* An old [[UsefulNotes/RussianHumour Soviet joke]]: Two cannibal tribes make an alliance and conquer a third. In the smoldering ruins of the conquered tribe's village, the chiefs of the victorious tribes are feasting on the corpse of their defeated rival: