black comedy

Noun

Meaning

comedy that uses black humor

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Examples

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. Bono

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. Peter Shaffer

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. Janet Street-Porter

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. Martin McDonagh

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground. Sharon Gless

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor. Terry Southern

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