dark comedy

1. 1.

   a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements

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Questions about dark comedy

What does dark comedy mean?

dark comedy means "a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements".

Is dark comedy a common word?

dark comedy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.