Favorite dark/black comedies

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Favorite dark/black comedies

Post by JohnClay » Mon May 24, 2021 9:15 am

Bad Boy Bubby

An Australian movie about a man who's lived underground for 35 years with his mother whom he has sex with. He ends up murdering his parents and escaping. It has a happy ending where he gets married and has two boys.

Here are a collection of excerpts related to people with severe disabilities:


Happiness

This shows the secrets that people have including being a murderer, a pedophile, etc. It has a happy ending were a boy jerks off to a woman sunbathing and cums. A dog licks up the cum and his mother is licked by the dog. The boy announces "I came!"

Todd Solondz has other black comedies

Peep Show

The show is through a first-person view while hearing the thoughts of the two main characters.

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Do you have any favorite black comedies? Is so please include some kind of summary and an excerpt....

I like how it can explore people's dark inner sides.... I guess the descriptions sound like a train-wreck....

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Post by HighlyIrregular » Wed May 26, 2021 1:51 am

Anyone watch the Squirmy and Grubs YouTube channel? They're in an interabled relationship. Grubs is the disabled one, with a muscular atrophy disease, and in a wheelchair. He tries to be funny but it's basically about their life.

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Post by SomeInternetBloke » Wed May 26, 2021 9:25 pm

HighlyIrregular wrote:
Wed May 26, 2021 1:51 am
Anyone watch the Squirmy and Grubs YouTube channel? They're in an interabled relationship. Grubs is the disabled one, with a muscular atrophy disease, and in a wheelchair. He tries to be funny but it's basically about their life.
This is a neat channel. Thanks dude. :clap:
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Post by Madrigal » Thu May 27, 2021 9:27 pm

I guess the Coen Bros, although I'm not a huge fan of dark comedy myself, as it gets too frivolous for my liking sometimes (is that even redundant?). I liked Burn After Reading, for example. I may like a "dark comedy" about nazis much less.

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Post by Senseye » Fri May 28, 2021 6:10 am

I've started watching an Australian series called "Mr Inbetween". It's kind of a crime drama with a humorous bent. Not quite sure it would qualify as a black comedy however.

It's pretty entertaining though. And I get a dose of Australian culture. So now I know what a dimmy is.

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Post by Julius_Van_Der_Beak » Sat May 29, 2021 4:46 am

No mention of Dr. Strangelove?

Also Arsenic and Old lace if you can abide something old-timey.

Also Burn After Reading was pretty funny.

Does Starship Troopers count?

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Post by C.J.Woolf » Mon May 31, 2021 12:14 am

I might think of something else later, but Armando Ianucci comes to mind. He created the political black comedies The Death of Stalin, The Thick of It, and Veep.

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Post by ashi » Mon May 31, 2021 4:41 am

I desperately wish I could have watched The Death of Stalin any time prior to October 2016.

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Post by Utisz » Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:38 am

The Day Today



Brass Eye. Can't find any good clips, but in one episode they got all these celebrities and politicians to decry a fake drug reading from a script. This is the only clip I could find, but it's tame compared to some of the others.



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Post by Spartan26 » Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:33 am

Heathers is up there for me.

Ready or Not I absolutely loved!

I generally love dark comedies but for some reason I'm blanking on titles. Dead Like Me was a cable series that I thought was pretty well done.

Trainspotting and Shallow Grave had moments of dark comedy. I think one problem is that the larger budget pictures play it too tame. Someone mentioned Happiness, which, honestly, you don't find anything darker than that, but it barely registers a blip on the radar but American Beauty, which I thought was a watered down version of Happiness and The Ice Storm gets an Academy Award and praised at how avant-garde is was. Please!

I saw some list that had The Lobster and Sorry to Bother You as dark comedies. Well, yeah, I guess but I'd say the former was more absurdist, extremely rare to see, and the later Black Consciousness. Both achieved what I think they set out to do and each had laughs but not nearly as many as the two I mentioned early on. Maybe Brazil gets classified as dark comedy as well??

I feel like I'm missing some really obvious ones.

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