Black Comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise solemn subject matter, or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or comedy:

    “I myself saw furious with blood
    Neoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,
    Hecuba and the hundred daughters, Priam
    Cut down, his filth drenching the holy fires.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)