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Meanings of black comedy in English
Comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor.
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Synonyms
Examples for "dark comedy"
Examples for "dark comedy"
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Showtime renewed the veteran dark comedy for a fifth season in January.
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Sorry to Bother You is a scathing dark comedy set in contemporary Oakland.
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The play is a dark comedy in an un-named war zone.
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Sometimes, going through that third-party machinery was like being in some dark comedy.
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There was Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, a superlative dark comedy, and then there is Succession.
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I like the black humor of much of the dialogue as well.
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But the violent movement discharged the tension of his black humor.
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And she noted with pleasure that he, too, was in a black humor.
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Because of Woo's own black humor, though, he is more than a Peckinpah impersonator.
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But the black humor of despair could not last.
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Sure, here's what, tell me this is a joke, a sick, black joke on Rory Doll's part.
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It's meant to be a black joke, but Johanna doesn't seem to take it in the intended spirit.
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Humans will be a black joke.
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This is a black joke about the food chain and the survival of the fittest and his Mr Fox is part of this process.
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According to one account, even Black joked that one day they might all be prosecuted.
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It was inappropriate and awful gallows humor, and we could not stop.
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Their gallows humor felt warmer than any hug they could have given Nikki.
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All the preceding calm the gallows humor, the circumspect threats-had evaporated.
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He wasn't in the mood for gallows humor from this man.
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If it weren't for my gallows humor, I'd have been a goner long ago.
Usage of black comedy in English
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He said that No Man's Land is just a wonderful black comedy.
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What happened next: an orderly retreat for the Chris Morris black comedy.
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It was written in the early 1960s and it's a black comedy.
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A fascinating study of a dysfunctional relationship and a brilliant black comedy.
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The head-slapping stupidity of the situation could only be viewed as black comedy.
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Used to be in that very black comedy show about the Korean War.
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It also examines the social impact of black comedy and its notable artists.
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Somewhere along the way, a sharp black comedy lost its bite.
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The black comedy thriller is directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.
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That's something very specific but I like old school humour and black comedy.
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Is it therapy as music, catharsis as a black , black comedy?
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As a result, black comedy on TV is severely rationed.
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A black comedy about the Gleiwitz incident and the start of World War Two.
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Who knows, maybe this will rescue the tepid black comedy for some audience members.
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It should be read by normal readers, if read at all, as black comedy.
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He and Lizzie Tollmache talk about the existentialist black comedy Third Person - Tense!
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Translations for black comedy
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Black comedy through the time
Black comedy across language varieties
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Less common