black humor

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Definition von black humor im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with subjects that are believed to be serious or volatile, such as death, divorce, drug abuse, etc; morbid humor; the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
black humour: Alternative spelling of black humor
black humour: jokes or funny stories that deal with the unpleasant parts of human life. Humour marked by the use of morbid, ironic, or grotesquely comic episodes that ridicule human folly. The term came into common use in the 1960s to describe the work of novelists such as Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 (1961) is an outstanding example; Kurt Vonnegut, particularly in Slaughterhouse Five (1969); and Thomas Pynchon, in V (1963) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). A film exemplar is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1963). The term black comedy has been applied to some playwrights in the Theatre of the Absurd, especially Eugène Ionesco

black humor

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black hu·mor

bläk hyumır

/ˈblak ˈhyo͞omər/ /ˈblæk ˈhjuːmɜr/

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