Dark Comedy faves

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:p::As I blow a nice cloud of Afghani Bullrider into StusBlues’s face.:::stuck_out_tongue:

Kind Hearts and Coronets
Delicatessen
Cul de Sac
American Psycho
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Westworld (while more under the heading “sci-fi”, still lots of darkly comic moments in it)
Bob Roberts
The Producers
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Basket Case (+II)
Evil Dead 2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Liquid Sky
Reservoir Dogs (more under crime drama tag, but again - lots of funny set pieces that I wouldn’t call family viewing)
Young FrankentSTEEEEN!!!
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Punch Drunk Love
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The Ruling Class (part musical, I spose)
There’s Something About Mary
Withnail & I
To Die For
Kingpin
After Hours
Lolita
Being John Malkovitch
Brazil
The Informant!
The Interview
Defending Your Life
Reel Life
Fubar
Groundhog Day
Bad Taste
Raising Arizona
Stepford Wives (some call it horror; me - dark satire)
American Werewolf in London
Happiness
Shaun of the Dead
King of Comedy
Serial
Team America: World Police
Rabid
The Trouble With Harry
Second Best
Rodger Dodger
Dead Alive
Broken Flowers
The Hospital
The Party
A Fish Called Wanda
They Live
Orgazmo
Death Race 2000
High Anxiety
True Romance (sure - more a crime film, but still deserves a spot here)
Lavender Hill Mob
Shallow Hal
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Ed Wood
Foul Play
Leolo
Office Killer
The Room (unintentionally so :p)

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The Party? It was a feel good movie. And maybe the only modern film shot sequentially.

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I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is a solid addition. It has the mix of pseudo-realistic clumsy action scenes and bloody violence in the style of Green Room and Blue Ruin, but with jokes.

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I… liked that film, but the final run to the finish took a deep-dive into WTF-town, almost to the point that it felt like a different film.

+1 Catch-22. One of my favorite novels.

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Blake Edwards?

nope

(but not as good, though)

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Robery Altman was pretty good at dark comedy. Probably the best in this regard, IMHO, is The Player.

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Agree with Altman but MASH is a much better example, imo.

The Player isn’t really a comedy and is not as good nor dark as Short Cuts. A Wedding is another good example; Carol Burnett gives a brilliant straight dramatic performance. And Brewster McCloud.

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Didn’t see any mentions of Eating Raoul.

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In Bruges for the win… also known as the best Christmas movie ever.

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See post post #9

One of my all-time favourites!

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Adding to some things mentioned upthread:

Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell) is a good laugh, once you realize that it’s being stupid on purpose.

I’ve only seen it once, but I enjoyed several aspects of The Ladykillers (Coen brothers), like the photography, acting, dialogue and casting.

Mars Attacks!

Oh, and Johnny Got His Gun.

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Outside of the shot of a howling Donald Sutherland as a howling steam train engineer Jesus, I don’t remember anything amusing about this film

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Nor me. One of the grimmest films ever.

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Another vote for Dr. Strangelove and Arsenic and Old Lace.

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It’s dark humor (as in woosh).

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No. There is no humor in a soldier who has lost his arms and legs; his sight and hearing and speech. Trapped in his own body begging for death.

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Of course there isn’t. Sorry if you took my post too seriously.

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How about Thank You For Smoking? Would that count? Love that movie.

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In sorry for misreading. That was a movie you couldn’t get me to rewatch for large sums of money or even a St Louis pizza. :slight_smile:

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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.