Talk:Black comedy
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[edit] The definition is self referential
The opening line:
"A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor"
This is a confusing definition as it's using the term 'black humor' to define a black comedy, but 'black humor' redirects to this exact same page. It also implies that black humor is a synonym for gallows humor, but if you visit the page for gallows humor, it defines how it is different from back humor.
As such, it still seems that the term 'black humor' is being left undefined here on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.100.164 (talk) 19:22, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Removed
"According to screenwriter John Truby[citation needed], when black comedy is used as a basis for a story's plotline, it involves a society in an unhealthy state and a main character wanting something that will not be beneficial to himself or society. The audience should usually be able to see this for themselves, and often a supporting character within the story also sees the insanity of the situation. The main character rarely, if ever, learns a lesson or undergoes any significant change from the ordeal, but sometimes a relatively sane course of action is offered to them."
Not cited but did not want it to go to waste if WP:Verifiable
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comic and comedy from co mic: Whair the technical definition of the true form of the comic is, to state the obvious in conotated mode, to provide a fuction of positive corective force within soicerty:- in a humorouse fassion, For Black comedy See the film secretary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.216.142 (talk) 10:29, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Expand tag
With these edis Thumperward added the expand tag without give any indications in the talk page. I'm removing the tag for now.--Sum (talk) 10:43, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Black comedy vs black humor and interwikis
Black humor is a concept introduced in 1935 in France By Breton. "Black comedy" is only a derivative term, and so far there is not enough content to make of it a separate article. The only two wikis that have more than one article (one for balck humor, one for black comedy) are fi: and pl:, but in both cases the secondary one is usually a two lines stub.--Sum (talk) 11:02, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Confusion
If "Black Comedy" refers to macabre humor, what do you call comedies like the Ice Cube movies with all-black casts? Where I live, people refur to movies like Friday, Are We There Yet, & Barbershop as Black Comedy & stuff like Neurotically Yours, Robot Chicken, & Invader Zim as Dark Comedy/Macabre Humor. Also we use "Sitcom" to refer to any TV series that isn't a reality show; You tell them it means "situation comedy" & they're like "I never knew that." True it might be ignorant, but most Americans think that the definition of "ironic" is "weird coincidence."
[edit] Tim Minchin?
At the bottom of the Adoption in literary criticism section, comedian Tim Minchin is given as an example. How exactly is his brand of comedy 'black'? I was going to remove him from the list but thought I'd better ask others what they thought first. Anyone? nagualdesign (talk) 03:34, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
- I have no objection to removing Tim Minchin. There is a tendancy for this page to become an example farm. I'd put Little Britain or Blackadder but that would only add to the whole kerfuffle. SkyMachine (talk) 06:08, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Morbid humor
Does that exists as such, or is a synonymous to black comedy/humor? because i'm taking it out. Nicrorus (talk) 02:15, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Freud
"The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor;[2][3][4] and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes an emotion, all humor is "black humor," and that there is no such thing as "non-black humor".[5][6]"
Really? I can just about see including something like this somewhere in the article (maybe) but Freud's speculation on what humour is and is not are simply not relevant enough to go in the starting paragraph.
Wight1984 (talk) 19:57, 02 February 2012 (GMT) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.34.92 (talk)
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