Definitions for black comedy
black com·e·dy

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1. black comedynoun

   comedy that uses black humor

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1. black comedynoun

   A film genre that uses black humor.

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1. Black comedy

   Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, dark humor or gallows humor, is a genre of fiction referring to a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues, by provoking discomfort and serious thought as well as amusement in their audience. Popular themes of the genre include death and violence, discrimination, disease, and human sexuality. Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and bodily fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. An archetypal example of black comedy in the form of self-mutilation appears in the English novel Tristram Shandy; Tristram, five years old at the time, starts to urinate out of an open window for lack of a chamber pot. The sash falls and circumcises him; his family reacts with both hysteria and philosophical acceptance. Whereas the term black comedy is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, gallows humor tends to be used more specifically in relation to death, or situations that are reminiscent of dying. Black humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes.

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1. black comedy

   Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of serious, disturbing, or taboo subject matter. This genre of comedy often uses satire, sarcasm, irony, or cynical humor to make serious topics such as death, illness, or violence, seem humorous or less severe. It is noted for its ability to challenge social norms and poke fun at grim circumstances.

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1. Black comedy

   A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise solemn subject matter, or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of black comedy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of black comedy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of black comedy in a Sentence

1. Damon Wayans:

   Richard basically blazed a trail for black comedy. He defined what it is, as a young black man he was saying what he felt -- and that was shocking.