2006-12-10 01:06:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Black comedy is very dark, biting, satirical comedy. It's about looking at darkness and laughing about it to avoid losing your mind. Originally, M*A*S*H was black comedy (over the years it became much lighter).
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is very black humor. I read it several years ago and was blown away.
I've never read it, but A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is supposed to be really good black humor.
Microserfs and J-Pod by Douglas Coupland are both modern black humor looking at life in Silicon Valley. Both are really good reads.
2006-12-10 02:39:13 · answer #1 · answered by Rose D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The black humor genre relates to hilarity, deep sense of humor, that is, it makes you smile or laugh aloud while reading. As for me, I admire Evelyn Waugh. He wrote some books and short stories to amuse people. For example, "The man who liked Dickens" is very funny and made me think, "I don't know if I should laugh or cry if I were the fellow." His "The Sword of Honour Trilogy" is also wonderful and based on his experience during his military service in World War II.
You can find some paperback titles published by Penguin Books with reasonable prices. The list below is the hardcover titles published in the Everyman's Library series by Alfred A. Knopf. Find some and enjoy!
1. The Complete Short Stories
2. Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (in 1 vol.)
3. Brideshead Revisited
4. Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Put Out More Flags
5. A Handful of Dust
Note: His writing style's fantastic with rich vocabularies since, one of the reasons, he graduated from Oxford in the UK.
2006-12-10 20:25:41 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black humor is baiscally creating humor out of the darkest situations. If you've seen the movie "The War of the Roses" that's a black humor because it's funny in an evil way. Like when she says it's the dog she cooked. He asks what's in it and she says "woof-woof!" When the dog is actually outside which is how the battle at the end starts.
2006-12-10 11:03:18 · answer #3 · answered by Turd Ferguson 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the books by Carl Hiaasen (I think that is the proper spelling)
2006-12-10 09:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sartoris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chuck Palahniuk: FIght Club, Haunted, Choke. All very dark, and all very funny.
2006-12-10 11:34:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get yourself a satanic bible then \m/ =]
2006-12-10 09:17:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋