# Favorite black comedy movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273 "2002-09-23T14:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/41 "2002-09-24T15:32:30Z")
Carwash. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/42 "2002-09-24T15:37:24Z")
_Delicatessen_. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/43 "2002-09-24T15:38:37Z")
OK. Just kidding about the Carwash thing **Dinsdale**. Just trying to live up to my stalker reputation. My true nomination is King Of Hearts. > [@](#): > > (from Amazon) > This film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. Of course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn’t it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War I, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He wanders into a small French village that has been abandoned by its residents in the face of oncoming combat. Instead, the town is populated by the residents of a nearby insane asylum, whose keepers have fled–a fact that escapes the innocent soldier, who assumes these are the regular folks. A film that celebrates the innocence and wisdom of the insane, even as it questions who the real madmen are. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/44 "2002-09-24T16:42:37Z")
I’ll second After Hours and add in King of Comedy. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/45 "2002-09-24T17:24:25Z")
I’ve not seen **Man Bites Dog** but a friend told me about it and it would seem to fit the bill. I’ll second **Lock, S & T S Barrels**. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/46 "2002-09-24T18:00:41Z")
I’ll second Heathers and The House of Yes, making teenage suicide and incest hilarious, and add two gems: Shallow Grave Welcome to the Dollhouse ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/47 "2002-09-24T19:18:17Z")
I’ll second Heathers and The House of Yes, making teenage suicide and incest hilarious, and add two gems: Shallow Grave Welcome to the Dollhouse ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/48 "2002-09-24T19:45:03Z")
I third Heathers. It is my favorite movie of all time. I also recommend: Best of Show Election Drop Dead Gorgeous ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/49 "2002-09-24T22:03:09Z")
How about _Nurse Betty_? It wasn’t actually very funny, but it wanted to be a dark comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/50 "2002-09-24T22:24:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > **Haven’t seen it, but The Loved One seems to qualify.** Oh yes … go see it. Right now. You can’t get much blacker than a comedy about the American funeral industry. ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/51 "2002-09-24T23:22:51Z")
I am fond of many of the movies listed above, especially Raising Arizona, A Fish Named Wanda, Dr. Strangelove, The Ladykillers, Brazil, and Arsenic and Old Lace, and in the horror comedy category, Tremors. (Perhaps some of the others should be called horror comedies, too.) In the horror comedy category, I’d like to add Young Frankenstein and Arachniphobia. In the general black comedy category, I recently saw Nobody’s Baby (2001), which is perhaps not a favorite, but is worth a mention. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/52 "2002-09-24T23:53:14Z")
Speaking of war and death, I think I have one that hasn’t been mentioned: “How I Won the War”. And not just because of John Lennon. And speaking of > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cat Fight \* > \*\*Shallow Grave > \*\* “Trainspotting” was a comedy wasn’t it? Well, wasn’t it? And also “Fight Club” and (hi, Dinsdale) “Blood Simple”. And how about “The Player”? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/53 "2002-09-25T05:40:54Z")
I submit **Get Shorty** and **A Shot in the Dark**. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273/54 "2002-09-26T06:38:21Z")
**Kingpin** I hated **Very Bad Things** but it qualifies. **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas** maybe? **What’s Eating Gilbert Grape** had some dark undertones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-black-comedy-movie/129273.md?page=2)