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Favorite dark/black comedies

 
 
 
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Bad Boy Bubby

An Australian movie about a man who's lived underground for 35 years with his mother whom he has sex with. He ends up murdering his parents (suffocating them while passed out) and escaping. It has a happy ending where he gets married and has two boys.

Here are a collection of excerpts related to people with severe disabilities:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBnBxSuNBNU[/YOUTUBE]

Happiness

This shows the secrets that people have including being a murderer, a pedophile, etc. It has a happy ending were a boy announces to his family "I came!"

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-hvKuV0a8[/YOUTUBE]

Peep Show

The show is through a first-person view while hearing the thoughts of the two main characters.

Some random excerpt:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koAmdMi7-78[/YOUTUBE]

Do you have any favorite black comedies? Perhaps most people aren't fans of these types of movies/shows...
 
Arsenic and Old Lace - This is generally viewed as a popular dark comedy. Things go from bad to worse even after when Grant learns of the curve.

The Front Page - When I look for this, it isn't on any of the lists for dark comedy's. His Girl Friday would definitely qualify, with Grant's character being quite the ugly manipulator, and I'd have that film on the list if not for the ending where the head strong women falls for the abusive husband. But The Front Page, manages it different with two males taking the lead. The subject is serious and the quirks very funny. Matthau's character is just as manipulating as Grant's character (though not quite as devoid in humanity), and the ending is more organic all around.

Chicago (mind you I saw the stage show with Eddie George as the lawyer (he was good), not the movie) - I didn't see this movie come up either. The ridiculous world of the 1920s and the press. It is extraordinarily dark, as there are no heroes in this tale, the victims, the criminals, the lawyers defending them, or the press covering it.

It was odd that I saw movies like Fargo show up in lists. Fargo had moments of levity, but it was NOT a comedy, not like Raising Arizona.
 
Guns Akimbo - A group streams a show on the internet where they set killers to fight each other in the streets of cities. Bloody fights to the death with a huge number of people following. Daniel Radcliff in a moment of being generally pissed off insults the group putting on the show. They visit him, and he wakes up with two pistols bolted to his hands (making things like opening doors or pulling his pants up very difficult) and set one of their best killers after him.
 
Death of Stalin. I keep laughing at the execution scene.

Pain & Gain. The best Michael Bay movie.
 
Zombieland is hilarious and the only movie with zombies that I’ve ever been able to stomach.

Harold and Maude is also hilarious. I first saw it when I was maybe, 20 and fell in love with it immediately. It sounds a little creepy for me to say I like it at my age but I do.
 
It maybe stretches the definition of dark/black comedy, but Citizen Ruth (1996) has Laura Dern playing the title character as such a dirtbag that your eyes roll as she drifts into one mess after another. She is, first of all, stupid, which is not so easy so play, as Dern herself is usually as smart and nuanced as Catherine Keener. Here she is Ruth, a dopey, homeless, pregnant paint-huffer who snorts tile sealant, spray paint fumes, whatever. She gets pulled into a tug-of-war between pro-lifers and the pro-choice movement, and she is soon a media sensation. An excellent supporting cast of farceurs (Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston, Swoosie Kurtz, Burt Reynolds) makes this thing zing. Not an easy-to-find movie. Worth the search.
 
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