


Four Lions is Not a Black Comedy, but it is pretty funny
Netflix has a bad habit of lying to me. Four Lions is dark? Please. Four Lions couldn’t pass a brown paper bag test. It might be hilarious, but it’s not black. Here is why. I admit that black humor is a complicated beast. It gets easy to quickly characterize things as black or not based […]

The Details, an actually black comedy
Good black comedies are hard to come by. Perhaps it is because any book, television show, or film that is both funny and includes something universally viewed as ‘bad’ is immediately relegated to the ranks. Someone dies? Black comedy. Someone gets dumped? Yeah, that’s probably black. Oh wait, does it include the government or anything […]