Art
- A painting by Walter Sickert which depicts a man with his head bowed standing near a bed containing a naked female corpse is called The Camden Town Murder, What Shall We Do for the Rent?
Mythology and Religion
- There's a streak of black comedy running through the patronage of saints:
- According to legend, Saint Lawrence of Rome was martyred by being roasted to death on a gridiron. Supposedly, after roasting over a hot fire for a while, he said to his tormentors, "I am done on this side; you may turn me over now". That's the Gallows humour. The Black Comedy is what happened afterward - the Church decided he would make an excellent patron saint of cooks and chefs! And comedians.
- St. Sebastian - martyred by being shot full of arrows - is the patron of archers and laceworkers.
- Thomas More - executed for not supporting Henry VIII's divorce and subsequent split from Rome - is the patron of difficult marriages (as well as lawyers and statesmen, which More was).
- Teresa of Avila - known for her overwhelming ecstatic visions - is the patron of headaches.
- Saint Joseph, most famous for not being Jesus' real daddy despite being married to his mother, is the patron saint of fathers.
Pinballs
- True to its source, the Judge Dredd pinball is full of this, whether it's perps exploding into Ludicrous Gibs or civilians locked up for excessive flatulence.
- The Skill Shot of The Lost World: Jurassic Park has a T-Rex squishing people. Not bad on its own, but the less common "Super Skill Shot" includes old ladies among the targets. Ouch.
- All of the humor in Data East Pinball's Tales from the Crypt is this, as per the license.
Podcasts
- All over the place in Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project, what with the amount of murder and suicide in it.
- Behind the Bastards is based on this trope. When you're trying to make light of some of the horrible things the podcast's subjects have done, black humour (or just plain Crossing the Line Twice) is the only refuge.Robert: (discussing Joseph Stalin's older brothers) [Giorgi] died six months later, which from an optimistic point of view is a 300% improvement on his length of survival over the first kid... Do you think pointing that out to [Stalin's parents] would have made them less sad? You know, when you look at this statistically, you're a way better parent than you were before.
- A few instances pop up in the Cool Kids Table game The Wreck.
- Joy Hibler doesn't know how she died. Josh tries to hold out the rope they got the room before and ask her if that's how.
- After several items are deemed too big to put in the inventory (including a ghost), Lazy Boy ends up with a rope and a stool.
Josh: You know, just in case things get too crazy. - Throughout the Sequinox episode "Inferno Pt. 1", Sid insists on wounding or killing people until Vivaldi stops showing up to discover his identity. Becomes Harsher in Hindsight when they discover Vivaldi is Caiden...after he's shot through the chest with Scorpius' laser.
- In A Very Fatal Murder, Pascall's reenactment of the murder of Hayley Price ends up killing an intern.
- Some pretty dark stuff occurs in the Interstitial: Actual Play one-shots A Touch of Evil and A Rush of Sugar to the Head, such as Shego leaving Betty Cooper in a burning car to die or Morton Koopa murdering Wreck-It-Ralph with a hammer. It's not surprising because they're both villain episodes, but it's hilarious because of the bizarre crossover context which causes them to happen.
- Well There's Your Problem is based on this, as the hosts usually don't have another recourse than copious amounts of very darkly comedic snark after discussing, say, how a hundred children drowned in coal mining spoil because it was cost-inefficient to properly secure the dumping site.
- Wooden Overcoats practically runs on this, being a sitcom about two rival funeral homes. Jokes about death, corpses, suicide, depression, and disrespecting the dead abound. One of the earliest examples is the narrator's description of Antigone:The poor dear had been diagnosed with depression within twenty minutes of being born, a world record! Which gave her no consolation at all.
Puppet Shows
- Fur TV is the king of this category, yes, along with shows like South Park or Family Guy, but a puppet version. Sometimes reaching disturbing levels.
- On the 11/14/10 episode of The Funday Pawpet Show everyone was watching a reporter show footage of an angry man in a Rascal scooter ram an elevator door three times, the third time disappearing down the shaft to his real-life death. As the reporter showed the footage again, out of nowhere cast member Blitz said "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" completely catching everyone off guard.
- The Ferals: Even overlooking the levels of violence and cruelty, which is not easy, the rabbit character is named Mixy...after myxomatosis.
- Sesame Street, of all things, engages in a bit of black comedy with the Game of Thrones parody by making thinly veiled references to the stillbirth of Daenerys Targaryen's child, the Red Wedding Massacre and beheading.
Radio
- Big Finish Doctor Who has its moments, particularly in the episode "Max Warp". The entire episode is a gleeful Take That! to Top Gear. The Richard Hammond character appears to die violently in a space ship crash. In Real Life, Hammond was in a serious car crash two years before the episode aired.
Theme Parks
- The Haunted Mansion at the Disney Theme Parks has quite a bit of this mixed in with all the horrific imagery.
- Universal Studios' Horror Make-Up Show uses comedy as a means of demonstrating how some of the most gruesome effects in movies are done.
Trading Cards
- The bread and butter of Garbage Pail Kids is that many of the cards depict a character who is either grotesquely deformed, mutilated or dead, with the cartoonish art style making the depictions more ludicrous than disturbing.
- Piranha Enterprises released a trading card series in 1988 called Killer Cards, which depicted several shockingly violent scenes, some of which had a morbid joke going on. Examples include the "Automobiles" card depicting a student driver's car having crashed into a baby carriage (much to the alarm of the killed infant's mother) while the driver asks his instructor if this means he's failed, the card "Quicksand" depicting a vulture shed a tear while observing the hats of some soldiers that have apparently drowned in the quicksand and the card "Rabies" depicting a father warning his daughter against touching a rabbit while unaware that a squirrel is sneaking behind him, ready to bite the back of his neck.
