About Dark Comedy
Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
Napoleon: How Hollywood has landed in the heart of England
...By Pete CooperBBC News, NorthamptonshireHitting cinemas in the space of the week, Saltburn, a Dark Comedy set in 2006, and Napoleon, a biopic about the infamous French leader, may not appear to have much in common, but both were filmed at Northamptonshire stately homes less than 10 miles apart...
Banshees of Inisherin: Film set pub is saved and opens for business
... " The award-winning film secured the most Oscar nominations for an Irish film ever - a Dark Comedy that takes place during the Irish Civil War on the fictional island of Inisherin, a beautiful place but monotonous and lonely for the few people living there who only have themselves (or their animals) for company...
Freema Agyeman: Doctor Who star to appear in Tony-winning God of Carnage
...By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterDoctor Who star Freema Agyeman will appear in a new stage production of the Tony and Olivier-winning Dark Comedy God of Carnage...
Golden Globes 2023: Ceremony under way in Los Angeles
... " Who is nominated this year? The Banshees of Inisherin, a Dark Comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, leads the pack at the Globes with eight nominations...
Golden Globes: Will Hollywood stars return after controversy?
... " Who is nominated this year? The Banshees of Inisherin, a Dark Comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, leads the pack at the Globes with eight nominations...
Golden Globes 2023: Banshees of Inisherin leads nominations
... The Dark Comedy about friends in 1920s Ireland is up for best film, while its four stars including Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have acting nods...
Scene-stealer: Child star Lenny Rush's rise to fame
... He s the " fearless" scene-stealer of Children in Need according to one critic, while another calls him " phenomenal" in Daisy May Cooper s Dark Comedy, Am I Being Unreasonable? His latest show, CBBC s Dickensian drama Dodger, with Christopher Eccleston as Fagin, has just snapped up a Bafta in the week it returns to TV...
Sally Kellerman: Oscar-nominated M*A*S*H actress dies at 84
... Her role in the Dark Comedy about US Army medics in the Korean war earned her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations...
