Dark humor
Culture concept
Humor that makes light of taboo and/or depressingly serious subjects to entertain, cause discomfort, and/or provoke serious thought on the subject.
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games
11platforms
Alternate names: Black comedy, morbid humor
DOS 1996-01-29
PS3 2014-03-04
WIN 2011-04-19
WIN 2014-03-04
WIN 2024-02-05
WIN 2015-04-08
DOS 1997
OSX 2011-04-28
WIN 1997-06-30
WIN 2011-04-28
WIN 2015-07-17
LIN 2018-11-23
A mainstay of darkhumor is provoking the audience to laugh precisely when the audience believes it is wrong for them to so.
To make a normal person laugh, a comedian dresses up as a little old lady and falls down a manhole. To make a comedian laugh, it needs to be an actual little old lady.
To make a normal person laugh, a comedian dresses up as a little old lady and falls down a manhole. To make a comedian laugh, it needs to be an actual little old lady.
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The first Dark humor video game was released in 1975.
Electronic Arts, Telltale Games and TinyBuildGames published most of these games.