# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/41 "2017-12-15T16:53:56Z")
Fargo In Bruges Natural Born Killers (not sure if it’s comedy or just satire) ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/42 "2017-12-15T17:53:57Z")
Mrs. Squid and I went out last night to see _Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri_. Hot damn, was it good. And dark. Super dark. I don’t know if it quite compares to Fargo or Dr. Strangelove, but it’s not firmly in my top five black comedies ever. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/43 "2017-12-15T18:18:20Z")
…\ ***now** firmly in my top five… ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/44 "2017-12-15T18:21:50Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Death to Smoochy. Probably a little dated now, but it was great when Barney was the most popular kiddie show on TV. Critics universally hated it. They were all wrong. I thought it was it fucking hilarious. The Nazi scene alone is worth it. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/45 "2017-12-15T18:36:33Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > Mrs. Squid and I went out last night to see _Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri_. Hot damn, was it good. And dark. Super dark. > > I don’t know if it quite compares to Fargo or Dr. Strangelove, but it’s not firmly in my top five black comedies ever. Yeah I really liked it a lot, it left a lasting impression. I thought it was more dark and more drama than comedy, but it had all 3. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/46 "2017-12-15T21:24:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Maid in Manhattan > Elizabethtown > You’ve Got Mail > Grease 2 > My Greek Fat Wedding > On Golden Pond I wouldn’t classify any of these as dark comedy. Also, to contribute to the thread: **Heathers** ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/47 "2017-12-15T21:42:38Z")
A Blackadder Christmas Carol So Baldrick, how was the workhouse Christmas pagent? Well, it was fine until the baby playing Jesus up and died. My word, this high infant mortality rate certainly makes it difficult to put on a decent Christmas pageant. Heh. A casual joke on Victorian era infant mortality. Only the British would do that. British comedy is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/48 "2017-12-15T22:28:46Z")
Idle Hands Dead/Alive The Abominable Dr. Phibes ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/49 "2017-12-15T22:36:07Z")
Freddy Got Fingered - bizarre, surreal movie they somehow got Rip Torn to costar in, and reportedly Tom Green’s only real goal was to get the “jerking off a horse” scene past the MPAA. In that sense, it was a complete success! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/50 "2017-12-15T23:00:27Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > Mrs. Squid and I went out last night to see _Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri_. Hot damn, was it good. And dark. Super dark. Written/Directed by Martin McDonagh. He has exactly 3 feature length films under his belt, all three are amazeballs, and all three are in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/51 "2017-12-15T23:12:32Z")
_Catch-22_, the novel. The film, not so much. _Shameless_, the TV show, is too dark for me to even watch. A man can only cringe so much. ---
**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, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/52 "2017-12-15T23:40:34Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I wouldn’t classify any of these as dark comedy. I dunno…I thought they were all pretty gory, nasty, profane and vaguely terrorizing. They made me wanna rip my eyes out. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/53 "2017-12-15T23:43:29Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I dunno…I thought they were all pretty gory, nasty, profane and vaguely terrorizing. > They made me wanna rip my eyes out. That might have had something to do with what you were smoking at the time, sir. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/54 "2017-12-16T00:46:09Z")
My all-time favorite movie is the original (1942) _To Be or Not to Be_, with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. The idea of a comedy about the Nazis was too soon in 1942, and the film got panned, but not it’s regarded as one of the best films of all time. Mel Brooks did a terrible remake of it in 1983. The remake isn’t dark as much as slapstick-- typical Mel Brooks. It never should have been made. The '42 version is one of the closest-to-perfect films ever made. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/55 "2017-12-16T06:11:29Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > My all-time favorite movie is the original (1942) _To Be or Not to Be_, with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. The idea of a comedy about the Nazis was too soon in 1942, and the film got panned, but not it’s regarded as one of the best films of all time. Mel Brooks did a terrible remake of it in 1983. The remake isn’t dark as much as slapstick-- typical Mel Brooks. It never should have been made. The '42 version is one of the closest-to-perfect films ever made. +1 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/56 "2017-12-16T08:54:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Dr. Strangelove Kubrick’s adaptation of \*\*A Clockwork Orange \*\*is even darker (which is saying something since **Dr. Strangelove** ends with the nuclear annihilation of the planet). ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/57 "2017-12-16T10:26:05Z")
Very Bad Things: Vegas stag do’s accidental killing of a prostitute leads to a lot more. Surprisingly star studded, Worlds Greatest Dad: Robin Williams greatest role. After his idiot asshole teenage son accidentally commits suicide, his Dad, an aspiring writer makes up a selection of heartfelt notes to make him feel better and it gets complicated from that. The Contenders: Season 7. A surprisingly still effective mock reality TV show where they manipulate people into murdering each other. Starting with last years winner: a pregnant woman, returning to her hometown, with a competitor being an gay ex boyfriend dying of cancer. Shakes the Clown: “The citizen kaine of alcoholic clown movies”. Also of note is “God Bless America”, also directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/58 "2017-12-16T17:35:13Z")
I have just remembered the 2015 film **Nina Forever**. A very dry, very British, black horror comedy. Worth a watch in my opinion. The older Rob tried to commit suicide after his girlfriend Nina died in a car crash. This makes him seem romantic to Holly who is still resentful after having been dumped for being too boring. Holly sets out to seduce Rob, is successful but when they consummate the relationship Nina returns as a revenent: A corporeal entity in the form she was in at the moment of death: A bloody, mangled corpse. The humour derives from the film de-sensationalising the gore and resolutely treating the situation as a mundane love triangle. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/59 "2017-12-16T17:58:45Z")
The Magic Christian…wealthy Dad Peter Sellars and son Ringo go around getting folks to do crazy insane things for money. Bonus points for pre Python Chapmen and Cleese cameos. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/60 "2017-12-16T19:16:19Z")
The British TV mini series _The Life and Loves of a She-Devil_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508.md?page=4)