Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with "serious" subjects – death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner.
A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is a good example of black comedy: A man takes off his belt to hang himself, and his trousers fall down. The cartoons of Charles Addams typically display black humour such finding funny business with scenes that would normally be considered horrific.
Harold and Maude, in which an alienated young man obsessed with staged suicides and the funerals of strangers falls in love with a vivacious octonagerian
The Hospital, the story of a chief of surgery who is trying to figure out why a number of hospital employees begin dying under strange circumstances
Heathers, about a disaffected, jaded couple who start killing members of popular cliques at their high school
Ichi the Killer, about a pair of savage killers, one a sadist and the other a masochist.
M*A*S*H, in which the medical staff of a Korean War field hospital engage in silly mischief to alleviate the horror of the bloody carnage of the wounded they must treat
Man Bites Dog, a mockumentary turning the tables on news and documentaries
Meet the Feebles, about a group of animal-puppet performers who suffer terrible human vices.
Prizzi's Honor, in which a Mafia hitman and hitwoman fall in love
Pulp Fiction, about the misadventures of thugs, whose stories weave into the same destiny.
Roger & Me, in which director Michael Moore posits the existence of the tragically ridiculous decline of Flint, Michigan and its effects after General Motors CEO Roger Smith closed the city's autoplants and threw 40,000 people out of work.
