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Dark humor

Dark humor, also known as black comedy, black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, gallows humor or morbid humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to provoke discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their…

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Dark humor → relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects

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death.Breton coined the term for his 1940 book Anthology of Black Humorinstance ofoften relying on topics0.80text

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