Sometimes it's fun to laugh at awful things. (Mostly because they're not happening to you.) Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark comedy, dark humor or gallows humor, is a Sub-Genre of comedy where topics and events that are usually treated seriously are treated in a comical manner. Typical targets are death, violence, crime, murder, suicide, insanity, disability, paraphilias, environmental disasters, political corruption, poverty, famine, disease, drug abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, animal abuse, rape, pedophilia, castration, cannibalism, necrophilia, war, terrorism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, stereotypes, and line-cutting.