# 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:** 8\ **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:** [December 18, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/81 "2017-12-18T17:09:12Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > There are those (including, it seems, the folks who do nominations for the Golden Globes) who view _Get Out_ as an extremely dark comedy. I’m not sure I’m on board with that, but there you are. I can see it. It’s definitely got some intentional humor there. I’d call it more of a satire, but I don’t think it’s way out of left field to call it dark comedy. Then, consider that the writer/director is in fact a comedian. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/82 "2017-12-18T18:00:23Z")
Being There After Hours ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/83 "2017-12-18T22:32:44Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > Being There I was debating whether I should put it on my list. It’s number three in my absolute alltimes - definitely a satire on the powers that be, allowing a dolt to rise, unchallenged, to power, but its strong current of whimsy and melancholy (as well as an interesting attempt at romance) made me keep it off the list, which, btw, _After Hours_ is on. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/84 "2017-12-18T22:45:55Z")
> [@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. I agree that it’s a good movie, but I actually prefer the Mel Brooks remake, particularly for the scene in which the theater troupe use a performance to help a group of Jews and other persecuted people escape, right in front of an audience of Nazi officers and officials. And one film not mentioned above; [Four Lions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions), a British film about a group of British Muslim men who aspire to be suicide bombers. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/85 "2017-12-19T00:01:37Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Another vote that _Blood Simple_ is not remotely a comedy. Very tense drama. I think it _is_ a dark comedy, but that may be just because of who the directors are. For those who enjoyed it, the Chinese remake, “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” (sometimes called “A Simple Noodle Story”) is indisputably a dark comedy, and I can only assume that it is such because the original is a dark comedy, too. (FWIW, it’s really, really good and fun to watch, too). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/86 "2017-12-19T00:34:02Z")
Many of my most beloved movies have been mentioned, but not my absolute favorite: _Ladykillers_, the original British film from 1955. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/87 "2017-12-19T05:01:04Z")
_The Old Dark House_ (1932) _The Bride of Frankenstein_ (1935) Two James Whale-directed classics replete with his trademark black humor. _The Graceful Brute_ (1962) Japanese film taking place almost entirely in an apartment. A very corrupt family meets their match in a scheming seductress. _Kitten with a Whip_ (1964) JD runaway Ann-Margret and her lowlife pals complicate the life of would-be political candidate John Forsythe. Uncomfortable viewing until you realize Forsythe deserves everything he gets for being such a doofus. _The Tenth Victim_ (1965) Italian-made vision of the future where civilians try to kill one another in a state-sanctioned game known as “The Big Hunt”. Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress hunt each other and (of course) fall in love. _Beyond the Valley of the Dolls_ (1970) Russ Meyer backed by a major studio delivers his finest film. _Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein_ (1973) Only worthwhile in 3D! “To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder!” \* Andy Warhol’s Dracula\* (1974) Euro-elegant and hilarious, with excellent performances from Udo Kier, Arno Juerging and Joe Dallesandro as a communist stud from the Bronx. _Going Places_ (1974) Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere act like swine all over France. _Network_ (1976) Essential viewing. _Andy Warhol’s Bad_ (1977) Carroll Baker (her best performance?) runs an electrolysis business while overseeing assassins for hire. _Winter Kills_ (1979) Incredible cast in spoof of JFK assassination conspiracies. _Dog Day_ a.k.a. _Canicule_ (1984) French-made elegy to the American gangster has Lee Marvin on the lam with stolen loot, encountering family of perverts. Miou-Miou is great as always and there’s a cameo from Tina Louise (“Ginger” on _Gilligan’s Island_), but David Bennent (the kid from _The Tin Drum_) steals the show, proving once again why he was one the greatest child actors ever. _From Beyond_ (1986) Lovecraft-derived perverse horror-comedy. _Salome’s Last Dance_ (1988) _Lair of the White Worm_ (1988) Ken Russell adapts works by Oscar the Wilde and Bram the Stoker. _Revengers Tragedy_ (2002) Updating of Shakespearian-era play with original (not for passive listening) dialogue intact relates a man’s quest for revenge for the death of his fiancée. Funny, bitter and little seen, it’s one of director Alex Cox’s best films. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508/88 "2017-12-19T14:17:09Z")
The original book and movie of M_A_S\*H. NOT the sappy TV series [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-comedy-faves/804508.md?page=4)