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    Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of...
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  • Black comedy or Black Comedy may also refer to: Black Comedy (play), by Peter Shaffer, 1965 Black Comedy (TV series), an Australian sketch comedy series...
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    comedy include screwball comedy, which derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters, and black comedy...
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  • Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965. The premise of the piece is that light and dark are transposed, so that when...
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    categorized under three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." It often crosses over with the black comedy genre. Comedy horror can also parody or subtly...
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    March 11, 2016. "Kings of Black Comedy", Oxford Film & Television. "Is it cos I is black?; There's no colour bar on comedy, as a new Channel 4 documentary...
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  • example, deadpan comics often fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to contrast the morbidity, or offensiveness of the joke...
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  • Comedy is the second official album by English singer Black, released in 1988. It reached No.32 in the UK Albums Chart. All songs written by Colin Vearncombe...
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    Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history...
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  • emotional depth. Film portal Television portal List of comedy drama television series Black comedy Dramatic structure Melodrama Seriousness Tragicomedy...
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    Examples include Animal House (1978) and Freddy Got Fingered (2001). Black comedy: film deals with taboo subjects—including death, murder, crime, suicide...
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  • Black Comedy is an Australian television sketch comedy program produced by Scarlett Pictures which first screened on ABC on 5 November 2014. Black Comedy...
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  • Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy is a 2009 documentary film based on the book Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught...
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    Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for roles in family and comedy films, in addition...
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  • horror are features of "Black Museum" and "Playtest", respectively. The first episode, "The National Anthem", contains black comedy and political satire...
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    Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is...
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  • airing on 15 April 2004. Black Books was a critical success, winning awards, including two BAFTAs (for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005) and a Bronze...
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    condemning way). Screwball comedy derives its humor largely from bizarre, surprising (and improbable) situations or characters. Black comedy is defined by dark...
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    the 2017 black comedy films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West. She also starred in the romantic comedy Happiest Season and thriller Black Bear (both...
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    Americas with tall buildings on the North American part and a black marquee ring (see below). Comedy Partners was originally a partnership of Home Box Office...
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  • The King of Comedy is a 1982 American satirical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro (in his fifth collaboration with...
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    (2002–2005, 2019–2022) Contest Searchlight (2002) Heroes of Black Comedy (2002) Heroes of Jewish Comedy (2002) The Sweet Spot (2002) Chappelle's Show (2003–06)...
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    stated that he wanted to remain God's friend. Williams started performing comedy in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati. He honed his comic delivery...
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    memoir, The Last Black Unicorn (2017). She also released the album Black Mitzvah in 2019, for which she won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, making...
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    Bad Monkey is an American black comedy crime drama television series developed and executive produced by Bill Lawrence. A co-production between Warner...
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  • Black Cat, White Cat (Serbian: Црна мачка, бели мачор, romanized: Crna mačka, beli mačor) is a 1998 Serbian romantic black comedy film directed by Emir...
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    Film. Lanthimos transitioned to making English-language films with the black comedy The Lobster (2015), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award...
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    Netflix black comedy miniseries Maniac (2018), and received another Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Abigail Masham in Yorgos Lanthimos' period black comedy...
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    Screwball comedy is a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving...
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    the comedy Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), followed by Tobe Hooper's remake of Invaders from Mars (1986). For much of the 1990s and 2000s, Black starred...
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