Black comedy
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Black comedy is a style of humor (something funny or comical) that is about something serious that might upset people or people have problems with (death, war, drug use, abuse).
Some famous examples of Black comedy include:
- Waiting for Godot
- Cartoons by Charles Addams
- Catch-22
- Dr. Strangelove
- Harold and Maude
- Plays by Joe Orton
- The novel, film and early TV episodes of M*A*S*H
- Itchy and Scratchy on the Simpsons.
- Cartoons by John Callahan
