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dark comedy
noun
- a play, movie, etc., having elements of comedy and tragedy, often involving gloomy or morbid satire.
- a comedy based on problems of a personal or social nature.
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Was it the subject matter—a dark comedy about a vengeful nurse convincing a man he has AIDS?
From The Daily Beast
One of them, The Accountant, a dark comedy won an Academy Award for best-live action short of 2002.
From The Daily Beast
It's a mixed bag of reviews for the new controversial dark comedy starring two former Disney princesses.
From The Daily Beast
But then it stops being funny because America is not supposed to be dark comedy; it's our actual country.
From The Daily Beast
MacLaine also realized that uncertainty was a major theme in the dark comedy.
From The Daily Beast
The scene of the dark comedy which we are now about to describe was laid in the old princely courtyard.
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