Black comedy

Black comedy is also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treat seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid probable racial overtones include dark humor, morbid humor, gallows humor and off-color humor.

Black comedy is like to sick comedy, such as dead body jokes. However, in sick humor most of the humor comes from shock and revulsion; black humor usually includes an element of irony, or even fatalism. This particular brand of humor can be exemplified by a scene in the play waiting for Godot: men take off his belt to hang him, and his trousers fall down. Another example, "Suicide just isn't funny, no matter which way you slice it," is an effective satire at the way that suicide is treated in mainstream western culture, insinuating that attitudes towards suicide are still more morose or morbid than the act or mental condition leading to it.

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