black humour
Laughing at death
Black humour finds comedy in death, suffering, tragedy, and other subjects normally considered too serious or painful for jokes.
The term suggests that certain topics are "dark" and that laughing at them requires a particular sensibility: His black humour helped him cope with the diagnosis.
Also spelled black humor.
Sometimes called dark humour or gallows humour.
- Catch-22Self-defeating logical trap
- whistling past the graveyardFaking calm amid fear
- deathCessation of life
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- parodySatirical imitation
Dr. Strangelove · mortality · morbid curiosity · dead baby jokes · absurdism · nervous laughter · drama · existential dread · fatalism · bitter laugh · tragicomedy · darkness · sarcasm · satirical comedy · irony · existential drama · coping mechanism · political satire
black humourclean comedy
Humor without vulgarity
light comedy · slapstick · whimsy · dad jokes · gentle humor
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