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.