gallows humor

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

There was poop humor—literally—when Valerie's house becomes flooded with fecal matter after a pipe bursts.

Under the Sun King, such humor—and the laughter associated with it—was seen as more suitable for the masses.

As ever, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show crew encouraged us to find some humor alongside the horror and the shame.

I was a little riled at first myself, but the second and last lady who came out put me in excellent humor.

The gray eyes, once flashing with the light of kindly humor, now softened with sympathy, now glowed with pity.

He was judge of the admiralty court of Pennsylvania; his writings abound with wit, humor and satire.

When Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.

He paused, and to illustrate the imperious humor of the Scot, he waved his fingers and a red wrister at me.