Black Comedy

Black comedy is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with a serious subject, that normally would not be humorous, in a humorous manner.

Some famous black comedy films include:

Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, dealing with nuclear war.
The Loved One, dealing with funerals
Prizzi's Honor, in which a Mafia hitman and hitwoman fall in love
M*A*S*H, in which the medical staff of a Korean War field hospital engage in silly mischief to alleviate the horror of the bloody carnage of the wounded they must treat
Roger & Me, in which director Michael Moore follows the tragically ridiculous decline of Flint, Michigan and its effects after General Motors CEO Roger Smith closed the city's autoplants and threw 40,000 people out of work.
Life Is Beautiful (Originally La Vita è bella), about an Italian Jew who uses humor and fantasy to hide the truth from his son in a concentration camp.
Catch-22, another film about the madness of war, based on the novel by Joseph Heller.
To Die For, about murder and pedophilia.
Ichi the Killer, about a pair of savage killers, one a sadist and the other a masochist.
American Psycho about a serial killer. Played by Christian Bale.
The Lindsay Anderson trilogy of If, O Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital.

Modern Usage: Black Comedy

Commercial Usage: Black Comedy

Domain	Title
Books	The Alternative: A Novel Concerning the Sweetness and Sublimity of Essential Islam--A Spiritual Journey from the Gross to the Subtle Wrapped in a Black Comedy (reference) (more book examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Comedy

Modern Translation: Black Comedy

Language		Translations for "black comedy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ブラックコメディー . (various references)

Pig Latin		ackblay omedycay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Black Comedy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-d-e-k-l-m-o-y"
	-3 letters: blockade, comeback, mockable.
	-4 letters: becloak, blacked, blocked, cackled, cacodyl, cembalo, clacked, cloaked, clocked, cockade, cockled, codable, mackled.
	-5 letters: albedo, ambled, backed, balked, becalm, bedlam, belady, beldam, bemock, blamed, blocky, cabled, cackle, calked, calmed, clayed, cloyed, coaled, cocked, cockle, colead, comade, comake, combed, comedy, comely, cycled, cymbal, doable, dyable, embody, emboly, kayoed, lacked, lackey.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
black comedy	42
black comedy explosion	12
black comedy lewis	12
1982 black comedy eating	6
black comedy movie	6
black comedy cruise	5
black comedy tour	4
black comedy show	3
black comedy cruise party	2
black comedy play	2
black comedy louis	2
black comedy shaffer	2
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Definition: Black Comedy