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Quotes about Black Comedy

"Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
"Do you know what's funnier than a dead baby? A dead baby in a clown suit."
—Traditional
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit would like to remind you that genital mutilation is no laughing matter. It is, however, an old vaudeville routine."
Joel McHaleThe Soup

Actual Black Comedy

"We're gonna be corpses. Might as well be ridiculous looking corpses."

Dr. Young: That's horrible. How can you joke about something like that?
Riddler: Easily, doctor... it's not my baby.

Yes, yes, Mrs Lincoln, but, apart from that, how did you enjoy the play?
Salome Dear, Not in the Fridge (1968)

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