Friday, August 28, 2020

American dark humor (Family Guy)

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, Fox); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki
WARNING: Trigger warning. Ugh,sensitive subject matter, delicate issues, taboo topics! Vulgar, gross!
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Who's that on the beach? Is it Death!
Black comedy is also known as morbid humor, dark comedy, black humor, dark humor, or gallows humor.

It is a style of comedy that makes light of grave subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly serious subjects that are normally considered painful to discuss.

Implicit humor is for adults. Kids don't notice.
Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience.

So, in fiction, for example, the term "black comedy" can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, violence, discrimination, disease, and human sexuality.

Senior citizens are sex-starved perverts.
Black comedy differs from both "blue comedy" — which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, flatulence, and bodily fluids — and from straightforward obscenity.

An archetypal example of black comedy in the form of self-mutilation appears in the 1759 English novel by Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy.

Tristram, 5-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. [Window pain?] His family reacts with both hysteria and philosophical acceptance. More

Vicious British masters of dark humour (Tristam)

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