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Black comedy is a type of entertainment that uses dark or morbid humor, often joking about serious, tragic, or taboo subjects like death and suffering. This style of comedy matters because it allows audiences to laugh at difficult topics, potentially helping them cope with or gain perspective on life's darkest aspects.
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"Hopscotch to oblivion" in Barcelona, Spain, alluding to suicide A cemetery with a "Dead End" sign, creating a play on words Dark humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to provoke discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience.
Dark humor differs from blue comedy—which focuses more on topics such as nudity, sex, and body fluids—and from obscenity. Additionally, whereas the term dark humor is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, gallows humor tends to be used more specifically in relation to death, or situations that are reminiscent of dying. Dark humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes.