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	Black comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black comedy, also known as fl humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc.
		However, in sick humor most of the humor comes from shock and revulsion; fl humor usually includes an element of irony, or even fatalism.
		This particular brand of humor can be exemplified by a scene in the play Waiting for Godot: A man takes off his belt to hang himself, and his trousers fall down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_comedy (2039 words)

	The Video Dead Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Blackly humorous, suspenseful, gory flick appeals to genre fans who don't mind somewhat amateurish production.
		With its fl humor and blood-soaked content, this gore-fest is a must for strong-stomached "splatstick" fans.
		With its numerous in-jokes, post-punk soundtrack, ghastly humor, this is great fun for horror freaks, though squeamish viewers should steer clear.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=41575 (188 words)

	Orphans Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Blackly humorous comedy/drama about the misadventures of four Glaswegian siblings on the night before their mother's funeral.
		Just as it seems that we're in for a serious, slice-of-life drama, the three brothers suddenly hoist their sister out of her wheelchair and hold her outstretched in mid-air, Superman-like, so that she can kiss her mother goodbye.
		Or when Thomas insists that he can serve as the sole pallbearer, actually saying, "She ain't heavy, she's my mother," before being flattened by the weight of the coffin upon his back.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=129766 (670 words)

	Before You Go (2002)
		A family of sisters and their various menfolk have gathered for the funeral of their mother in a village on the east coast of Northumberland.
		The usual dignity is in short supply and what unfolds is the flly humorous and often painful, rediscovery of a mother who none of them ever really respected, or even truly knew.
		Skeletons come tumbling out of cupboards and fond delusions are shot to pieces as each of the sisters, far from perfect lives, are revealed.
	www.cinema.com /film/7359/before-you-go/index.phtml (124 words)

	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.
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bl/Black_humor.html (162 words)

	Black comedy
		Black comedy, also known as fl humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with a serious subject, that normally would not be humorous, in a humorous manner.
		Black comedy, also known as fl humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously - death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, et cetera - are treated in a humorous or satirical manner.
		Gallows humor is humor that makes light of death or other serious matters.
	www.jahsonic.com /BlackComedy.html (1326 words)

	Max and Moritz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks) was a German language illustrated story in verse.
		This highly inventive, flly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865.
		Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_and_Moritz (603 words)

	Honoured writer who created Miss Jean Brodie dead at 88 - World - smh.com.au
		DAME Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels including The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie made her one of the most admired British writers of the postwar years, has died in Tuscany.
		Spark, 88, died on Thursday in a hospital in Florence, said Massimiliano Dindalini, the mayor of the Tuscan village of Civitella della Chiana.
		Her novels are short and spare, with the plots often bizarre or macabre, satirical or flly humorous.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2006/04/15/1144521547442.html?from=rss (377 words)

	Vigilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This novel turns morbidly humorous and wryly sarcastic, features a fast plot and excellent characters, and is slightly plagued by improbable science.
		The shock to the small human population, including Faye, when their hosts start dying from the Oolom-specific, long-incubation-period, highly contagious, and invariably fatal illness, is described with power but without melodrama.
		After seeing so many graceful beings dye, Faye and her teenage friends alternated between raw pain and callous, insanity-tinged humor, while the frantic doctors tried using random chemicals and possibly toxic human food in search of the cure.
	inotherworlds.com /Vigilant.html (686 words)

	Woman Honor Thyself » Blog Archive » Sing on Cpl. Joshua Belile
		Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce.
		During war this brand of humor is oftentimes a natural eruption and response to horrific and frightening life circumstances.
		Black humor, while negative in nature, is often the only thing that keeps folks in high stress environments from losing what’s left of their sanity.
	www.womanhonorthyself.com /?p=601 (1345 words)

	Earthquake Time (S.A.R. Dog Mariachi)
		This is a very fl humored song, based on the experiences of some friends and their Search and Rescue Dogs working to find survivors after the Mexico City earthquake.
		The work itself is not funny of course, but deadly serious, and a number of people owe their lives to these dedicated dogs and their equally dedicated handlers.
		The dogs found survivors in collapsed buildings which state of the art acoustic equipment had declared to be devoid of life.
	www.cal.net /~pamgreen/earthquake_time.html (178 words)

	The Somniloquist \| Young God Records
		The stories are almost superreal in their descriptions of self-loathing, sexual mutilation, and elaborately ritualized violence.
		This subject matter is made even more unnerving by Gira's clear, deadpan delivery and by his casually self-effacing, flly humorous remarks to the audience.
		Gira 's sense of humor about his work is enjoyable.
	www.younggodrecords.com /product.asp?P_ID=7 (611 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Interviews \| Art \| Esao Andrews
		Inhabiting the paintings is a gothic cast of strange creatures and mysterious females.
		We spoke with Esao about his upbringing and what impact, if any, that may have had on his surreal, flly humorous work.
		Its gotten to the point that if I don't have a humorous element, then I feel it takes on an even greater form of cheesiness.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /interviews/interview.php?id=138 (1630 words)

	Blackly humorous tale follows fortunes of lovable misfit: ThePost.ie
		Blackly humorous tale follows fortunes of lovable misfit: ThePost.ie
		TCH Archives > Sunday Business Post > 2005/04/24 > Blackly humorous tale follows fortunes of lovable misfit
		Blackly humorous tale follows fortunes of lovable misfit
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2005/04/24/story4202.asp (570 words)

	Book review: Ormolu and Antimacassars - Minnesota Daily
		Illustrator Edward Gorey, whose strange, crabbed, finely detailed illustrations and flly humorous accompanying text seems perpetually to hang on the walls of college dorm rooms, died in April of 2000, leaving behind a puzzling body of work.
		Gorey's collected works, both anthologized and printed in compact, oddly sized book form, usually end up in the humor section of bookstores – even with their parade of grave-bound children, Gorey's books seemed intended as bleak goofs.
		His was a world of crumbling mansions and impenetrable, callous actions – the very stuff of English mystery novels, which he adored – but rendered nonsensical and absurd.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2002/07/08/7989 (931 words)

	Slipknots Subliminal Verses better than OKC - ateaseweb.com \| radiohead message board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Now, we’ve had several calls during the last few hours concerning a humorous comment I made some time ago.
		It was a humorous intro into a song which seems to have been taken a bit too literally by one or two listeners and a newspaper.
		So, just to repeat, Queen Elizabeth the second is not dead unless she went in the night and is yet to be discovered by the maid.
	www.ateaseweb.com /mb/index.php?showtopic=675 (1358 words)

	PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY JAN-MIKAEL ERAKARE
		City Weezle have blended their influences into a surprisingly cohesive sound.
		The instrumentation and sound from song to song is almost identical, resulting in a one dimensional sound for a demo though the production is quite clean and professional.
		City Weezle are capable musicians, and if they add to their palette of sounds and continue to deliver flly humorous lyrics, they will find a niche for themselves
	www.progressiveworld.net /cityweezle.html (169 words)

	Joseph Wicks - NEWS continued
		And when he sleeps, his correspondents themselves appear, gathering around his rumpled bed — not out of concern for Ivan’s welfare, but to squabble over which of them gets to keep his apartment when he dies.
		Bogaev shares a mentor with the playwrights Vassily Sigarev and the Presnyakov brothers, and if Russian National Mail is less successful than their output, it shares their bleak, flly humorous view of post-Soviet life.
		The scramble for ownership of Ivan’s meagre possessions is a grim irony and a grotesque insult to a comrade whose suffering was a brick in the building of the now- crumbled Communist state.
	www.josephwicks.com /reviews/rnm3.htm (336 words)

	Commercials at Framestore CFC
		The promo for the latest Chemical Brothers single, 'Believe', which premiered on MTV on 18th March 2005, offers an unnerving and flly humorous glimpse of a mind at the end of its tether.
		Directed by Dom and Nic, and produced by John Madsen for Factory Films, 'Believe' features some spectacular 3D work and artful compositing from the Framestore CFC Commercials team.
		If you want a measure of how good a job the Framestore CFC team have done, watch the video a second time, and see if the real factory robots don't look as if they must be CG…
	www.framestore-cfc.com /commercials/chemical_brothers/index.html (1007 words)

	Q&A with Gary Brecher, the War Nerd by Steve Sailer for UPI; war without battles, Tom Clancy, Africa, North Korea, ...
		One of the great things about the Internet is it allows writing talent to emerge from anywhere, including the outrageous, sickly funny, and bleakly insightful brain of a fat guy in Fresno named Gary Brecher.
		He writes in a profane, flly humorous style that makes the better-known war commentator-humorists P.J. O'Rourke and Fred Reed sound like editorials in the Christian Science Monitor.
		With President Bush sending 200 more U.S. troops to the civil war in Liberia, some charge the American public needs to know more about the wars going on all over the world.
	www.isteve.com /2003_QA_with_War_Nerd_Gary_Brecher.htm (1684 words)

	THE DOGS OF MARCH - HEBERT, ERNEST
		Author's first novel, set in the hills of New Hampshire, a flly humorous and strong story of Howard Elman, for whom nothing in life is fair.
		This is a story of the great 'displacement' which began in New England as more educated and wealthier people from out of state moved in - and this tells the story from the point of view of the invaded.
		They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/vol/8590.shtml (130 words)

	Haw!
		Blackly humorous gag cartoons, which Brunetti describes as 'each one less morally excusable than the next.'
		The book includes over 90 pages of one-panel gags certain to ostracize anyone from their co-workers when hung in an office cubicle.
		Yes, we receive fan mail for John Waters.
	www.atomicbooks.com /products/-/1968.html (224 words)

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