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article on Black comedy by the Editors of Microsoft Cinemania
"You can kill it, bury it, cut off its head or cannibalize it, but black comedy will never die. It whistles through graveyards as wolves howl in the night. It poisons the wine served to favored guests, and then laughs about it later as the body count rises. Obsessed with death, darkness, morbidity and macabre wit, black comedy looks into the void and returns with a devilish grin.
Using laughter as a formidable defense against the absurd complexities of modern life, black comedy is essentially entertainment as survival tactic, injecting humor into situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Nothing is sacred in a genre that dares to poke fun at the unthinkable, and black comedy gleefully violates taboos with abandon".
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article on Black comedy by the Editors of Microsoft Cinemania
"You can kill it, bury it, cut off its head or cannibalize it, but black comedy will never die. It whistles through graveyards as wolves howl in the night. It poisons the wine served to favored guests, and then laughs about it later as the body count rises. Obsessed with death, darkness, morbidity and macabre wit, black comedy looks into the void and returns with a devilish grin.
Using laughter as a formidable defense against the absurd complexities of modern life, black comedy is essentially entertainment as survival tactic, injecting humor into situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Nothing is sacred in a genre that dares to poke fun at the unthinkable, and black comedy gleefully violates taboos with abandon".
My own feeling about Com
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