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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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Black comedy - Authors. Kathy Acker Charles Bukowski Céline Paddy Cheyefsky Bret Easton Ellis James Gunn Franz Kafka Joe Orton George Orwell C.D. Payne Thomas Pynchon Terry Southern Hunter S. Thompson Jim Thompson Kurt Vonnegut Black comedy - Comedians. Andy Kaufman Bill Hicks David Cross Dennis Miller ...

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