Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid possible racial overtones include dark comedy/humor, morbid comedy/humor and off-color humor (see also color metaphors for race.) A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot demonstrates black comedy well: a man takes of ...

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Black comedy - Literature. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race by J.G. Ballard Candide by Voltaire Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, and his other works. God's Other Son by Don Imus Jennifer Government by Max Barry The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh A Series of Unfortunate Events< ...

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Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses any form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion. A sense of humour is the ability to ex ...

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Chris Rock (born February 7, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and actor born in Andrews, South Carolina. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Stuyvesant High School where he was president of the chess club and Black Students League. He was a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990–1993. His tenure on the show gave Rock national exposure, but problems with drugs led him to rarely being used on the show save for his reaccuring "Nat X" character. R ...

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The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous. For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective. By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true. Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term (the German loa ...

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Required components: some surprise, contradiction, ambiguity or paradox. appealing to feelings or to emotions. similar to reality, but not real Methods: metaphor hyperbole reframing timing ...

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Collins' stand-up career peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he performed in most of the major comedy venues in the United States and Canada. In 1990, he won the prestigious San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition. At the beginning of his act, he would enter in a black trench coat and order the audience to applaud the person who introduced him. Afterwards, he would pick out an audience member who failed to applaud and tell him he had to "clap alone." Later, he told the audience he was not a comedian, but a " ...

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