Favorite Black Comedy

[ahab]

What is your favorite black comedy. Mine is Very Bad Things with Christian Slater and Daniel Stern. It always makes me laugh and i always feel bad about laughing but it is a movie. What movies make you laugh and then feel guilty about laughing?




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[wheresthecarrot]

Very Bad things is good for that.....I also laughed a lot durring "happiness."  That one scene where they blow that kids brains out in the car in Pulp Fiction is very funny....it would be really hard to pick a favorite though.....

[chris]

Scorsese's After Hours and King of Comedy score very high.  Also, I love The Dark Backwards, Parents, and Novocaine. (not listing all the horror/black comedies, that would take forever)

[Neville]

It is much more a drama than a black comedy, but that Scorsese film with Nicolas Cage, "Bringing out the dead", has some real funny stuff, specially the parts with Ving Rhames.

[wheresthecarrot]

Speaking of Cage films, another good black comedy scene, thoug not necesarilly movie, was in "The Rock" where that huge heater fell on that dude and killed him, but he was still twitching and it was making it hard for Cage to concentrate....Connery says: "What do you want me to do, kill him again?"  It was pretty funny.

I also thought "4 Rooms" was great for black comedy stuff.

[raj]

I found Harold & Maude to be surprisingly good, though the scene with them in bed grossed out almost the whole audience.

[wheresthecarrot]

Harold and Maude is an incredible film.  I really enjoyed it!

[nshumate]

I don't know about being guilty laughing at it, but my favorite black comedy of all time is Heathers.  For about two years, that movie was food, drink, and air to me.

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[Ash]

I agree.  Heather's is my all time favorite black comedy.  

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[Evan3]

I did enjoy Very Bad Things, but I think my favorite is Death to Smoochy, very darf, very bizzare, pretty funny

[ahab]

I can't believe i forgot about Heathers. thanks for reminding me that one is going in the must rent pile.



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[Bernie]

The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole (1972 I believe).  By the end the laughter will turn to dust in your throat!

[Bernie]

Oops, I almost forgot Citizen Ruth.  Skewers just about every conservative AND liberal pretention on the abortion issue imaginable.

Eating Raoul, a classic.

Greaser's Palace.

A Boy and His Dog is kind of a black comedy, isn't it?....

[StatCat]

Harold and Maude is definitely a favorite of mine also.

[peter johnson]

Bernie hits 2 huge ones -- Peter O' Toole in "The Ruling Class" delivers really the film performance of a lifetime.  Yet nowhere near the same number of people who saw, say, "Lawrence of Arabia" have seen this one.  I usually get blank stares when I name this one.  I suppose "black comedy" is as good a term for it as any, but it presses so many buttons at the same time, I tend to think of it as in a class by itself.
Peter O' Toole also stars in another black comedy called "The Stunt Man", which is also very allegorical.
Also, though billed as s/f, "A Boy and His Dog" definitely has its wondrous "B" moments.