Dark Comedy


1. a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements, especially one in which a character suffers an irreparable loss.

2. a comedy characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.

see gallows humor

a good example of dark comedy is the series “dead like me”, a show with grim reapers and afterlife themes.
fact: “burn after reading” is a hilarious dark comedy film!
a movie that is not funny.
burn after reading is a dark comedy.

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