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See alsoThe Last Supper Violent Rhetoric Tucson Shooting
Matthew A. Schrader, Emily Mills and Odari McWhorter
mercuryplayerstheatre.com
February 7, 2011..wow a two year old story so much for current..
any of you ever heard of black comedy?
I don't mean comedies with black people in them..
black comedy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the genre. For situation comedies featuring a predominantly African American cast, see Black sitcom. For the play by Peter Shaffer, see Black Comedy (Play).
"Black Humor" redirects here. For the Spanish film, see Black Humor (film).
'Hopscotch to oblivion', Barcelona, Spain
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise serious subject matter, or gallows humor.[1] The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.[2][3][4][5][6]
The term black humor (from the French humour noir) was coined by the surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935,[7][8] to designate a sub-genre of comedy and satire[9][10] in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism,[7][11] often relying on topics such as death.[12][13]
Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humor (Anthologie de l'humour noir), in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, and included excerpts from 45 other writers. Breton included both examples in which the wit arises from a victim, with which the audience empathizes, as is more typical in the tradition of gallows humor, and examples in which the comedy is used to mock the victim, whose suffering is trivialized, and leads to sympathizing with the victimizer, as is the case with Sade. Black humor is related to that of the grotesque genre.[14]
Breton identified Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, particularly in his pieces Directions to Servants (1731), A Modest Proposal (1729), A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick (1710), and a few aphorisms.[8][11]
The terms black comedy or dark comedy have been later derived as alternatives to Breton's term. In black humor, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously.
Black comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
this thread should have been titled: A MAJOR NONTROVERSY OR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
See alsoThe Last Supper Violent Rhetoric Tucson Shooting
Matthew A. Schrader, Emily Mills and Odari McWhorter
mercuryplayerstheatre.com
February 7, 2011..wow a two year old story so much for current..
any of you ever heard of black comedy?
I don't mean comedies with black people in them..
black comedy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the genre. For situation comedies featuring a predominantly African American cast, see Black sitcom. For the play by Peter Shaffer, see Black Comedy (Play).
"Black Humor" redirects here. For the Spanish film, see Black Humor (film).
'Hopscotch to oblivion', Barcelona, Spain
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor, which, in its most basic definition, is humor that makes light of otherwise serious subject matter, or gallows humor.[1] The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor.[2][3][4][5][6]
The term black humor (from the French humour noir) was coined by the surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935,[7][8] to designate a sub-genre of comedy and satire[9][10] in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism,[7][11] often relying on topics such as death.[12][13]
Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humor (Anthologie de l'humour noir), in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, and included excerpts from 45 other writers. Breton included both examples in which the wit arises from a victim, with which the audience empathizes, as is more typical in the tradition of gallows humor, and examples in which the comedy is used to mock the victim, whose suffering is trivialized, and leads to sympathizing with the victimizer, as is the case with Sade. Black humor is related to that of the grotesque genre.[14]
Breton identified Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, particularly in his pieces Directions to Servants (1731), A Modest Proposal (1729), A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick (1710), and a few aphorisms.[8][11]
The terms black comedy or dark comedy have been later derived as alternatives to Breton's term. In black humor, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously.
Black comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
this thread should have been titled: A MAJOR NONTROVERSY OR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
