gallows humor

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Comedy that makes light of death or other very serious matters

True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. . . . While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight..

morbid humor, black humor
Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation: "conveying with gallows humor the utter insanity of the nuclear-arms race" (New York)
gallows humour
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gallows humour
gallows humor humour which makes very unpleasant or dangerous things seem funny
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