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Encyclopedia > Gallows humour

Gallows Humor is comedy that makes light of death, or other very serious matters. It is similar to black comedy but differs in that it is made by the person affected.


Example

Mercutio is stabbed in a swordfight.


Romeo:

Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.

Mercutio:

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

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Other SC – Humour (2822 words)
The kind of laughter and humour I am describing comes from the extremely enervating and refreshing experience of being alive and present in the moment, and is in juxtaposition to laughter and humour that stems from nervous tension or impending danger.
What makes it fl humour is that such hypocritical duplicity perpetuates all the wars and murders and rapes and tortures and domestic violence and child abuse and sadness and loneliness and grief and depression and suicides forever and a day.
Strong laughter and humour, on the other hand, stem from the conditioned self, or as we call it in AF, the social identity, which finds ordinary contradictions, juxtapositions, absurdities and inanities ‘funny’, but sometimes the humour is targeted towards the misfortune of others.
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