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I'm currently researching about dark humor, or more specifically Gallow's humor which is a type of comedy in which a morbid event is usually mixed with a comic element that makes the event funny in despite that it also makes the audience uncomfortable by the depiction of death or other taboos.
Here's the wikipedia definition of it:
Any other discussion about this topic is welcome.
I'm currently researching about dark humor, or more specifically Gallow's humor which is a type of comedy in which a morbid event is usually mixed with a comic element that makes the event funny in despite that it also makes the audience uncomfortable by the depiction of death or other taboos.
Here's the wikipedia definition of it:
Gallows humor (Galgenhumor in German), is the type of humor that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a perfectly hopeless situation.[1] It arises from stressful, traumatic, or life-threatening situations; often in circumstances such that death is perceived as impending and unavoidable.
Gallows humor is a kind of humor which developed in middle Europe, from where it was imported to the United States as part of Jewish humour.[1] Gallows humor is made by the person affected by the dramatic situation,[2] an aspect that is missing in the later derivative called "black comedy....Sigmund Freud in his 1927 essay Humour (Der Humor) puts forth the following theory of the gallows humor: "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure". Some other sociologists elaborated this concept further. At the same time, Paul Lewis warns that this "liberating" aspect of gallows jokes depends on the context of the joke: whether the joke is being told by the threatened person themselves or by someone else.[3]
Gallows humor as the social effect of strengthening the morale of the oppressed and undermines the morale of the oppressors.[4][5] According to Wylie Sypher, "to be able to laugh at evil and error means we have surmonted them."[6]
Gallows humor is a kind of humor which developed in middle Europe, from where it was imported to the United States as part of Jewish humour.[1] It is rendered with the German expression Galgenhumor. The concept of gallows humor is comparable to the French expression rire jaune,[7][8][9] which has also a Germanic equivalent in the Belgian Dutch expression groen lachen.[10][11][12][13]
Italian comedian Daniele Luttazzi discussed gallows humor focusing on the particular type of laughter that it arouses (risata verde or groen lachen), and said that grotesque satire, as opposed to ironic satire, is the one that most often arouses this kind of laughter.[14][15][16] In the Weimar era Kabaretts, this genre was particularly common, and according to Luttazzi Karl Valentin and Karl Kraus were the major masters of it.[16]
Any other discussion about this topic is welcome.