The Naked Truth (1957 film)
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The Naked Truth is a 1957 British black comedy film directed and produced by Mario Zampi, starring Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers and Dennis Price. The screenplay was by Michael Pertwee.
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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.