Black comedy

Cartoonist Charles Addams was famous for such humor, e.g. depicting a boy decorating his bedroom with stolen warning signs including "NO DIVING – POOL EMPTY", "STOP – BRIDGE OUT" and "SPRING CONDEMNED."

Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and body fluids—and from straightforward obscenity.

[2][3][4][5][6][7][excessive citations] The term black humor (from the French humour noir) was coined by the Surrealist theorist André Breton in 1935 while interpreting the writings of Jonathan Swift.

[8][9] Breton's preference was to identify some of Swift's writings as a subgenre of comedy and satire[10][11] in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism,[8][12] often relying on topics such as death.

[7] Among the recent writers suggested as black humorists by journalists and literary critics are Roald Dahl,[17] Kurt Vonnegut,[10] Warren Zevon, Christopher Durang, Philip Roth,[10] and Veikko Huovinen.

"[19] The motive for applying the label black humorist to the writers cited above is that they have written novels, poems, stories, plays, and songs in which profound or horrific events were portrayed in a comic manner.

This includes police officers,[37] firefighters,[38] ambulance crews,[39] military personnel, journalists, lawyers, and funeral directors,[40] where it is an acknowledged coping mechanism.

In fact, it is impossible to coordinate the fugitive traces of this kind of humor before him, not even in Heraclitus and the Cynics or in the works of Elizabethan dramatic poets.

He shared to the smallest possible degree Rabelais's taste for innocent, heavy-handed jokes and his constant drunken good humor.

[...] a man who grasped things by reason and never by feeling, and who enclosed himself in skepticism; [...] Swift can rightfully be considered the inventor of "savage" or "gallows" humor.Des termes parents du Galgenhumor sont: : comédie noire, plaisanterie macabre, rire jaune.

(J'en offre un autre: gibêtises).humour macabre, humeur de désespéré, (action de) rire jaune Galgenhumor propos guilleret etwas freie, gewagte ÄußerungWalter Redfern, discussing puns about death, remarks: 'Related terms to gallows humour are: black comedy, sick humour, rire jaune.

In all, pain and pleasure are mixed, perhaps the definitive recipe for all punning' (Puns, p. 127).En français on dit « rire jaune », en flamand « groen lachen »Les termes jaune, vert, bleu évoquent en français un certain nombre d'idées qui sont différentes de celles que suscitent les mots holandais correspondants geel, groen, blauw.

Io sono specialista nella risata verde, quella dei cabaret di Berlino degli anni Venti e Trenta.

Era forte, perché coinvolgeva in un colpo solo tutti i cardini satirici: politica, religione, sesso e morte.

Rabelais e Swift, che hanno esplorato questi lati oscuri della nostra personalità, non si sono mai posti il problema del buon gusto.Quando la satira poi riesce a far ridere su un argomento talmente drammatico di cui si ride perché non c'è altra soluzione possibile, si ha quella che nei cabaret di Berlino degli Anni '20 veniva chiamata la "risata verde".