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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| Vicious British masters of dark humour (Tristam) |
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