Dark Comedy

1. A comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements, especially one in which a character suffers an irreparable loss.

2. A comedy characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.

see Gallows Humor

A good example of dark comedy is the series "Dead Like Me", a show with grim reapers and afterlife themes.

Fact: "Burn After Reading" is a hilarious dark comedy film!

Dark Comedy by Osbourne Cox October 12, 2011

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Dark Comedy

When a TV show or movie uses taboo subjects like death, cancer, racism, old age, rape, guns, domestic abuse, drugs etc is the source of the laughter. That's why it's dark.

ie. Archer, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy

I love watching dark comedy shows. They crack me up!!

Dark Comedy by Babydoll75 March 4, 2019

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Dark Comedy

I love watching dark comedy shows. They crack me up!!

Dark Comedy by Babydoll75 March 4, 2019

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dark comedy

a movie that is not funny.

Burn After Reading is a dark comedy.

dark comedy by Brewhaus November 12, 2009

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a dark comedy

a lame comedy featuring all black people so black people feel obliged to se it and pretend that is was really really good.

Death at a Funeral was actually funny even though it was a dark comedy, damn we are gonna have to step it up now

a dark comedy by the Pope of Southfield January 16, 2011

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funiosity

The art of being peculiar, but in an amusing fashion.

"Wow, look at that dog running on three legs"
- "Yeah, that sure is a funiosity"

funiosity by Supersonic Stevie November 23, 2007

Word of the Day on July 25, 2026

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Toe Rag

A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.

1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.

Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016

Word of the Day on July 24, 2026

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