"Everyone loves a hearty laugh, but sometimes our biggest laughters can come from dark subjects that don't seem very funny at all. We're talking about black comedy, a term coined by the surrealist French author André Breton in 1935. Black comedy has also come to be known as morbid humor, dark humor, or gallows humor. Rather, black comedy peers into the darker side of human nature while playing it for laughs. It's challenging and irreverent, but it can also be downright hilarious. In cinema, black comedy movies make light of subjects, themes, and topics that are generally considered sensitive or even taboo. With black comedy, filmmakers often approach these topics with zero sensitivity, which is what makes them so unique. There's a sense of gleefully wicked humor that mocks everything indiscriminately. Nothing is off limits in black comedy. Here are my picks for the greatest black comedy movies of all time and why they exemplify the subgenre." - whatnerd.com
