Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark humour, dark comedy, morbid humour, edgy humour, or gallows humour, is a type of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are usually considered serious or harsh to discuss. Black comedy is a subgenre of satire that is popular in the United Kingdom and the United States. The term is often used by writers and comedians to explore taboo subjects by eliciting discomfort, serious thinking, and enjoyment from their audience while examining the problems at hand. The phrase "black comedy" may refer to a genre of literature in which dark humour is an important component, as in the case of "black comedy." Death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, prejudice, illness, racism, sexism, and human sexuality are among the topics that are often explored in this genre.

It varies from both blue humour, which focuses on more crass themes such as nudity, sex, and body fluids, and straight-up obscenity, which is more explicit in its profanity. While the phrase "dark comedy" refers to a wide category of humour that may be applied to a variety of serious topics, the term "gallows humour" refers to humour that is particularly related to death or circumstances that are evocative of death. The grotesque genre is often associated with black humour, and vice versa. As far back as the ancient Greeks and Aristophanes, literary critics have linked black comedy and dark humour with writers and works of literature.