Dark humor
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Dark humor, also known as black comedy, black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, gallows humor or morbid humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo
"Hopscotch to oblivion" in Barcelona, Spain, alluding to suicide
A cemetery with a "Dead End" sign, creating a play on words
An 1825 New York newspaper used a gallows humor "story" of a criminal whose last wish before being beheaded was to go nine-pin bowling, using his own severed head on his final roll, and taking delight in having achieved a strike.
Surreal humour
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Surreal humour is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of surreal humour tend to invo
The style of humour of the comedy act The Mighty Boosh is often described as surreal.
Edward Lear's 1885 lithograph Edward Lear, Aged 73 and a Half, and His Cat Foss, Aged 16
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt".