Black comedy - Simple English Wikipedia

# Black comedy

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Black comedy is a style of humor (something funny or comical) that is about something serious that might upset people or people have problems with (death, war, drug use, abuse).

Some famous examples of Black comedy include:

- Waiting for Godot
- cartoons by Charles Addams
- Catch-22
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Harold and Maude
- the plays of Joe Orton
- The novel, film and early TV epsiodes of M*A*S*H
- The works of Michael Moore
- Itchy and Scratchy on the Simpsons.
- cartoons by John Callahan

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Category: Comedy

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