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dark comedy

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dark comedy
n.
1. A comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements, especially one in which a character suffers an irreparable loss.
2. A comedy characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
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Noun1.dark comedy - a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements
comedy - light and humorous drama with a happy ending


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Peter Paige's ``Say Uncle'' aims to be a dark comedy about the dangers of preconceived ideas, but the movie plays as a broad cartoon that speaks to the peril of having no ideas as a filmmaker.
This dark comedy starring Nicolas Cage tells the fateful journeys of an unscrupulous Russian businessman who sells stolen Soviet arms to guerrillas in unstable Third World countries.
seemed in its early pages to be a dark comedy of manners, which is about as edgy as I like my novels to be.
 
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