gallows humour

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gallows humor humour which makes very unpleasant or dangerous things seem funny
gallows humor
Comedy that makes light of death or other very serious matters

True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. . . . While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight..

gallows humor
morbid humor, black humor
gallows humor
Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation: "conveying with gallows humor the utter insanity of the nuclear-arms race" (New York)
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