# Dark Comedy faves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508 "2017-12-14T16:13:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/21 "2017-12-14T22:54:02Z")
Ruthless People After Hours ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/22 "2017-12-15T00:30:27Z")
In Bruges ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/23 "2017-12-15T01:36:16Z")
Maid in Manhattan Elizabethtown You’ve Got Mail Grease 2 My Greek Fat Wedding On Golden Pond Approach with a very long stick: [Man Bites Dog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lODZ1SIzx4) . ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/24 "2017-12-15T02:11:52Z")
[\*\*Tucker and Dale vs Evil \*\*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/?ref_=nv_sr_2) ---
**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:** [December 15, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/25 "2017-12-15T02:14:21Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I’ve never heard anyone else mention this, but I’m convinced Death Note is a dark comedy. I can see it! A lot of mine are mentioned here. I’ll add Grosse Pointe Blank. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/26 "2017-12-15T03:32:15Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Throw Mama From the Train and War of the Roses. Death Becomes Her is up there too. Yep, yep, yep. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/27 "2017-12-15T04:46:42Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > I enjoyed the British black comedy **Nighty Night**. I second that and add **Hunderby** to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/28 "2017-12-15T05:10:54Z")
> [@campp](#): > > [_The Loved One_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loved_One_(film)) One of my absolute favorites. Actually got to see it on the big screen about 25 years ago at a local theater. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/29 "2017-12-15T05:52:48Z")
Wow, you guys really came through! There are so many of these I haven’t seen much less even heard of. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/30 "2017-12-15T06:47:13Z")
“Parents” - Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt as 1950s squeaky-clean cannibalistic parents. “Arsenic and Old Lace” - old classic, with Raymond Massey as Jonathan, who is, without question, the finest character in cinema history. Almost, but not quite, everything by Lynch and Waters has a strong black/quirky thing going. There’s two awesome-as-all-get-out things in Hitchcock’s “Frenzy”: the dead foot repeatedly kicking the bad guy’s face in the back of the produce truck, and dinners with the detective and his wife, who’s an erstwhile experimenter of a cook. My favourite Bruce Campbell flicks are “Man With the Screaming Brain” and “Bubba HoTep”, the latter having elements of…whimsy? that somewhat dilute the general blackness of it. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/31 "2017-12-15T11:48:51Z")
Dr. Strangelove is probably the best dark comedy I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant. I’m also a big fan of **City of Lost Children** , a twisted French fairy tale, beautiful and bizarre and hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/32 "2017-12-15T12:13:53Z")
“Serial Mom” with Kathleen Turner. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/33 "2017-12-15T12:31:32Z")
Dark TV: Getting on Marion and Jeff Also surprisingly many bits of dark brilliance in the Alan Partridge oeuvre. Also another vote FOR Blood Simple. I saw it in the cinema on first release and thought it incredibly dry, with some amazingly funny bits, so a darkly comic thriller perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/34 "2017-12-15T13:17:00Z")
> [@campp](#): > > [_The Loved One_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loved_One_(film)) This was just on TCM a few weeks ago. Recorded and semi-watched it (lots of FFing). Mainly for the Jonathan Winters bits. An incredible cast for such an obscure film. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/35 "2017-12-15T13:31:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > In Bruges This movie is absolute genius. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/36 "2017-12-15T14:27:52Z")
The TV series **Delocated** has some brilliantly dark moments, especially in season 2. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/37 "2017-12-15T14:30:54Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > The TV series **Delocated** has some brilliantly dark moments, especially in season 2. As does Adult Swim stablemate “Children’s Hospital”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/38 "2017-12-15T14:34:07Z")
Hyperviolent yet darkly funny films: **Deadpool** and **Hardcore Henry**. I seem to be watching a lot of darkly comic stuff on Amazon Prime: **Comrade Detective** , **Preacher** , **The Tick** (which is much, much darker than its predecessor versions). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/39 "2017-12-15T14:50:07Z")
_A Shock To The System_ with Michael Caine as a man gleefully murdering his wife. Though it is mostly a romantic comedy, the recent _The Big Sick_ had one of the darkest lines I’ve ever seen. Kumail is an American of Pakistani decent who fell in love with a girl, but never met her parents Terry and Beth before she fell into a coma: **Terry:** So, uh, 9/11. [everyone looks at Terry expectantly] **Terry:** No I mean, I’ve always wanted to have a conversation with… [gestures at Kumail] **Terry:** …about it. With… [gestures again at Kumail] **Terry:** …people. **Kumail:** You’ve never talked to people about 9/11? **Terry:** No what’s your, what’s your stance? **Kumail:** What’s my stance on 9/11? Oh um, anti. It was a tragedy, I mean we lost 19 of our best guys. **Beth:** Huh? **Kumail:** That was a joke, obviously. 9/11 was a terrible tragedy. And it’s not funny to joke about it. I just about fell on the floor laughing. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/40 "2017-12-15T16:25:37Z")
In a different venue, the web comic [Schlock Mercenary](http://www.schlockmercenary.com/) is constructed almost entirely of dark comedy. It’s run continuously, a daily 3-4 panel strip, with a Sunday Special, since June 12, 2000. Physicists should stop looking out into deep space for Dark Matter; Howard Tayler has it neatly categorized, indexed, and archived on his own personal server. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508.md?page=3)