Gallows Humour


1. a type of humour that arises from stressful, traumatic, or life-threatening situations; often in circ-mstances such that death is perceived as impending and unavoidable.

2. a punk band based in london/surrey
1. tom : “well… it could have been worse. he could have died from scr-w-ng his 86 year old au pair like his dad did…!”
dan: “dude… bad use of gallows humour there… thats your brother you’re talking about!”

2. “we are gallows humour. f-ck your hopeless generation!” www.mysp-ce.com/gallowshumour

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