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- noun (Drama) a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot.
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- noun Alternative form of
black humor . - noun A
film genre that usesblack humor .
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- noun comedy that uses black humor
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Sinister or ethnic?
May 19, 2008