# Your favorite dark comedies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 30, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223 "2008-03-30T00:38:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/1 "2008-03-30T00:38:03Z")
Mentioning _To Die For_ in another thread made me think about dark comedies. I really enjoyed that movie, as well as other darkly comic things like _Six Feet Under_ and the highly underrated movie _Citizen Ruth_, and I’d like to see more movies and shows in that vein. What are your favorite dark comedies?
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/2 "2008-03-30T00:48:34Z")
Well, there’s _Dr. Strangelove_. And then there are all the rest!
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/3 "2008-03-30T01:10:43Z")
**The War of the Roses** , mostly because it doesn’t go soft in the end, even when it looks like it might.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/4 "2008-03-30T01:16:43Z")
Spaced - The British comedy.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/5 "2008-03-30T01:16:53Z")
It’s not really fair to pick the best one like that, **Labdad**.
The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets, Arsenic and Old Lace… Election is a much more modern example. I guess Network would be a dark comedy.
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### Author:  [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/6 "2008-03-30T01:30:56Z")
Heathers
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### Author:  [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/7 "2008-03-30T01:32:48Z")
_Death to Smoochy_- The way Robin Williams tries to get his revenge is an utterly Brilliant scene to me.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/8 "2008-03-30T01:36:26Z")
_Citizen Ruth
Very Bad Things
Bloodlines
Dead Alive_
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### Author:  [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/9 "2008-03-30T01:49:19Z")
Eating Raul
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### Author:  [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/10 "2008-03-30T01:54:49Z")
_The King of Comedy
Election
Punch Drunk Love
Happiness_
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/11 "2008-03-30T02:21:23Z")
We only saw _Kind Hearts and Coronets_ a few months ago. It’s _hilarious_.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/12 "2008-03-30T03:13:23Z")
After Hours
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/13 "2008-03-30T03:25:32Z")
Does _Yojimbo_ count as a dark comedy?
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/14 "2008-03-30T03:39:20Z")
“Something for Everybody” is a VERY funny dark comedy. You will never think of Angela Lansbury in the same way again after you see this film.
> **[Something for Everyone (1970) ⭐ 7.0 | Comedy, Crime, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066392/)**
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> 1h 52m | R
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/15 "2008-03-30T03:50:01Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord]
Spaced - The British comedy.
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I think Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are both pretty dark.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/16 "2008-03-30T03:54:49Z")
[Death Becomes Her](http://imdb.com/title/tt0104070/) is a hoot.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/17 "2008-03-30T03:57:19Z")
Dead Like Me. I sure wish more than two seasons had been made.
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/18 "2008-03-30T04:05:34Z")
Would **The Producers** (both versions) be considered a dark comedy or is it too broad?
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/19 "2008-03-30T04:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Labdad]
Well, there’s _Dr. Strangelove_. And then there are all the rest!
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That’s a mere frippery comapred to [Man Bites Dog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_%28film%29).
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### Author:  [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dark-comedies/443223/20 "2008-03-30T05:16:51Z")
_The Ice Harvest_ I thought was pretty good, but my opinion is not shared by many.
Would _Grosse Pointe Blank_ be considered a dark comedy? Because that one was pretty good too. 😃
Gimme a minute here, I swear I can come up with something that doesn’t involve John Cusack…
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