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:

    “O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
    And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
    And drown in it my sins’ black memory.
    That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
    I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “The comedy of hollow sounds derives
    From truth and not from satire on our lives.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)