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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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  • 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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  • 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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