(No I am not talking comedy by african-american comics) this kind of comedy is born from taboos and subject matter that crosses the line twice. See New York Post taunt that freight-trained Jared Fogle as social justice warriors and snowflakes along with NoBama got pissed when twitter were hashtagging Five Dollar Footlong as implying it's not exactly a sandwich. This kind of humor is the type that can invoke a fist fight when taunted by bullies as you can imply the jokes about genetic attraction, as in hindsight with a recent article showing up it's a bit 'grosser than gross' in hindsight. I employed this kind of humor when engaging Eric Hovind on Creation Science Evangelism back in 2014 where I made a grisly one implying that the megalodon shark was in the water with Noah's Floating Zoo and one of the animals fell in the water when the fin was breaking the surface of the water. Or you can also use the film Carnosaur to illustrate human-dinosaur co-existence really looks like as I coined this "The Corman Retort."
The author of Gulliver's Travels is one of the your examples of black comedy with the piece "A Modest Proposal" as he might had inspired Edgar Allan Poe with his satire output, Holden's Counterpart has tons of black comedy examples as the self-depreciation using the Italian slurs. The Fandom Writer was also my first approach with grim humor with dark horror elements.
by illinoishorrorman January 18, 2018
Dude! 9/11 is fucking hilarious!
Hey, 3,000 people died that day.
Well you know, Tragedy + Time = Comedy.
Hey, 3,000 people died that day.
Well you know, Tragedy + Time = Comedy.
by Jess swag vernon December 22, 2021
she could be my co-star in this romentic comedy
by Edgarin September 05, 2007
A colloquial term for a redundant landmark, often relating to useless moments of public spending, the meaning of which has long been forgotten amidst a forest of red tape.
monstrous carbuncle
monstrous carbuncle
So there's that memorial statue of Patsy Palmer... you know, it's so long since they proposed that, it's a bit of a Comedy Pyramid now to be honest...
by TheIan October 22, 2003
Person A: “Oh that van is dirty”
Person B: “And someone’s drawn a comedy rocket with their finger on it”
Person B: “And someone’s drawn a comedy rocket with their finger on it”
by welcome_to_piffington December 05, 2020
The queen of comedy is Lucille Ball. She lead the way for Carole Burnett, Marlo Thomas, Mary Tyler Moore, Joan Rivers, Fran Drescher, and Debra Messing.
by OG Daddy December 29, 2024