Voorbeelden van gallows humor

• This, perhaps, is a prescription for art, not life; only art can permit the thorough-bass accompaniment of gallows humor without causing real hurt to others, or to oneself.

• Death and dementia shadow the album, tempered by tenderness and wicked gallows humor.

• The subject matter is dark, and even shocking, but a gallows humor runs throughout.

• Satire about death overlaps with black humor, gallows humor.

• A gallows humor variation to this joke involves appending the phrase in jail to the end of the fortune.

• Many writers of the metamodernist and postmodernist movements have made use of tragicomedy and/or gallows humor.

• The review noted the gallows humor throughout the film, although the review was critical of the crude animated sequences.

• It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes, making use of burlesque, cartoons, comic strips, double entendre, exaggeration, jokes, parody, gallows humor, pranks, ridicule and sarcasm.

• Other taboos are challenged by sick jokes and gallows humour, and to joke about disability is considered in this group.

• It advocated active violence against the wealthy, and the paper used colloquial language and gallows humour.

• His irony-tinged voice and signature droll delivery, gallows humour, iconic image and mannerisms became instantly recognisable and were often the subject of parody.

• His music is characterised by his baritone voice and poignant observations on love and death, often featuring a gallows humour.

• His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.