# Black (or dark) comedies recomendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 12, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115 "2023-01-12T17:24:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/81 "2023-01-18T18:21:54Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > [Worlds Greatest Dad](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262981/) - I regard this as Robin Williams finest. A fathers horrible son kills himself in a sex accident, and he ends up writing his suicide notes to make him loved. I liked this one. It’s not just dark for dark’s sake, but it has a solid theme about how we process the loss of people in our lives who are not that great. I appreciated this because I lost a relative that was just kind of an asshole to everybody. He died a stupid, pointless death, and it makes the grieving process complicated. This movie gets it. And it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/82 "2023-01-19T06:46:25Z")
Th tv show ‘after life’ with ricky Gervais is a good black comedy. The tv show louie is a dark comedy too. Watch s2e9 episode Eddie. As for movies: super (with rainn wilson), the voices, the art of self defense, visitor Q, i love my dad ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/83 "2023-01-19T08:36:25Z")
IMO, the Coen brothers corner the market in white-hot black comedy, but my favorite will always be Kubrick’s, _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb._ It doesn’t get much darker than poking fun at nuclear holocaust. And, it doesn’t get much funnier than the comedic genius of Peter Sellers, combined with the out-of-character, unexpectedly masterful comedic acting chops of George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden. Scott’s war room rant scene is a stellar high point, in film peppered with high points. I laugh, and cry, just thinking about it: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bZm3qBdECdw/maxresdefault.jpg "My favorite George C. Scott performance ever - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson from Dr. Strangelove") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZm3qBdECdw) ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/84 "2023-01-19T08:51:28Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > To me, there’s been a drift on the question, and the context starts with the original mentioned film, Filth. It’s DARK, subject matter might offend. But it’s led to a bunch of offbeat comedies, or a bit dark stuff, which isn’t really the genre. I’ve seen most of those films, and they’d not make my list. Hmm. I see your point. I submit the movie _The Harder They Fall,_ and the limited series _Godless_. _Godless_ in particular can be hard to watch, and it’s also exceptionally excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/85 "2023-01-19T09:59:20Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > _Godless_ in particular can be hard to watch, and it’s also exceptionally excellent. Not on the comedy end, but that one is genuinely harsh watch. I suppose there’s another category to be had which could be “harsh but good dramas”, with a sub category of westerns. Harshest watch I’ve had took me about three months to watch, I could only watch it in five minute chunks. [Irreversible](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/). It is designed to make you sick, the screen rocks and flips over, the soundtrack horrible. It’s filmed in chunks going backwards to a scene which causes it. Then the film ends with the nice life they had before the event. In the genre of western bleak, I give you [The Townsman](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2398231/). ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115/86 "2023-01-21T06:35:18Z")
**Vulgar** is so dark I’m not sure if it’s funny. [Vulgar (2000) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120467/) **Get Shorty** is so funny I’m not sure if it’s dark. [Get Shorty (1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113161/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-or-dark-comedies-recomendations/978115.md?page=4)