Black-comedy
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black comedy
noun
comedy that employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque, or calamitous situations in its plot.
Origin:
1965–70
1965–70
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black comedy
first recorded 1961; cf. Fr. pièce noire. In a racial sense, from 1921.
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