0 a film, play, etc. that looks at the funny side of things that we usually consider to be very serious, like death and illness --
The black comedy features an elderly and eccentric aristocratic couple who learn that a bypass is to be built through their property.
It is a black comedy about a high school history teacher who attempts to sabotage a manipulative, overly-ambitious girl's campaign to become school president.
However, the novel is a black comedy, characterized by a dark sense of humor and irony.
In her review, she called the film a wonderfully twisted black comedy even though she believed it to be excessive and occasionally overdone.
He attempted to insert humor and black comedy elements.
But we really are in a situation of black comedy.
It was described by the headmaster of a school as a black comedy—that overworked phrase to attempt to justify that which cannot be justified.
Such philosophical black comedy seems to abound in this area.
