Black Humor

History

Black humor is referred to as a technique, a toon, a tune, an attitude, or a genre, in varying degrees in literary research. Black humor has its origins in the 18th century satire (for example, Jonathan Swift) and the romantic irony of the early 1800s. However, as a genre of this type, it was only after the Second World War that there was a growing number of writers in Europe and America whose production was combined with harsh, ironic and grotesque comic situations, and at the same time bringing people into a ridiculous or mindless light. Known writers in Europe have been, for example, Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco and on the other side of the Atlantic, for example Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and John Hawkes.

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Examples of black humor

Dark humor is represented, for example, by Samuel Beckett’s play Tomorrow he comes to the scene where a man takes off his belt to hang himself, and as a result his trousers fall.

Another example of black humor is the Happy Tree Friends series for adult watchers, a short series of short sets of episodes of a few minutes. The main characters in the series are small forest animals who run into comic and violent situations trying to cope with everyday routine routines.

In Joseph Heller’s novel We Military Warriors, according to the army’s rules, fighter pilots the only chance to get rid of flights is to prove to be a mood. On the other hand, any rational person would seek exemption from life-threatening flights. An exporter who has been exempted is therefore already proving with his application that he is full-bodied, and therefore the exemption can not be granted (so-called Catch-22).

André Franquin’s cartoon The black pages contained a lot of black humor. Almost all jokes are subject to violent death or other suffering involving something ironic. The name of the series was duplicated, as Franquin used an exceptionally large black surface in black and white drawings.

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