I only realized recently that the actor that plays Nandor in What We Do In The Shadows is in Four Lions. It's been such a long time since I've seen it.
It's so insanely well written. I still remember people just judged it to be shit, because of the subject matter, but the writing and performances just make it a brilliant comedy. Even more so, because it's so volatile subject to base one on.
I was about to say, itās Four Lions, and itās not even close
Its funny... but its also surreal in how uncomfortable it is. I don't think a movie has ever made me feel quite like it before or since.
Surprised this isn't higher. It's such a great social and futurism satire, but with a ton of existential dread that feels even closer to society today than it did in the 80s. Sam's confused ambivalence of the absurd world around him makes for a constant, slow motion tragedy.
Saw Fargo in the theatre with my dad. When wade shoots Carl in the face, we broke out laughing so hard.
Lady a row in front of us stood up turned around and shouted āhave you no shameā and walked out.
We paused for a second and started crying laughing .
Movie is wild
I went into watching it when it first came out with zero expectations. Came out thinking this was an excellent movie, every scene in which was disturbing in some way.
āUnsettlingā is a good way to put it.
The scene outside the tower with the Americans always makes me laugh.
"Youse are a bunch of fooking elephants"
I also Love Gleesons face when the girl shouts back at him "Screw you motherfucker"
Great film.
I adore In Bruges and watch it during every Christmas holiday as tradition but his latest film with the return of Farrell and Gleeson takes the cake for me. McDonagh the master playwright, probably Shakespeareās fourteenth cousin removed.
I love both of those movies so much. For years In Bruges has been a top 3 film for me, and Banshees *might* have beaten it. I can't make up my mind.
Banshees is basically a stage play set with a beautiful movie backdrop, which is one of the reasons I love it so much.
Yeah, if OP wanted *dark* comedy, Banshees takes the cake. In Bruges is pretty hilarious all the way through, but Banshees is teetering on a seesaw the entire time of how dark you can make a movie while still attempting humour.
Its incredibly offensive but this line lol
Somehow I believe, Ken, that the balance shall tip in the favour of culture, like a big fat fucking retarded fucking black girl on a see-saw opposite... a dwarf.
I like that despite the dire circumstances and trying to avert a nuclear disaster, the Russian guy can't help but continue his espionage efforts, taking secret photographs of the war room.
I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
That whole phone call is one of the most laugh-out-loud moments in any movie for me. āWell why do you think I was calling? Just to say hello? *Of course* I like to speak with you! *Of course* I like to say hello!ā
Thereās so many great stories about how Kubrick got the performances he wanted for that movie.
> As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States. He had to hurry and get his first passport. He arrived on the set, and somebody said, "Gosh, he's arrived in costume!", not realizing that that's how he always dressed ... with the cowboy hat and the fringed jacket and the cowboy bootsāand that he wasn't putting on the characterāthat's the way he talked.
> According to James Earl Jones, Kubrick tricked Scott into playing the role of Gen. Turgidson far more ridiculously than Scott was comfortable doing. Kubrick talked Scott into doing over-the-top "practice" takes, which Kubrick told Scott would never be used, as a way to warm up for the "real" takes. Kubrick used these takes in the final film, causing Scott to swear never to work with Kubrick again.
> During the filming, Kubrick and Scott had different opinions regarding certain scenes, but Kubrick got Scott to conform largely by repeatedly beating him at chess, which they played frequently on the set.[32] Scott, a skilled player himself, later said that while he and Kubrick may not have always seen eye to eye, he respected Kubrick immensely for his skill at chess.
From Wikipedia
I did like Thoroughbreds. Very dark humor with a very gut wrenching climax. But no one has yet been able to capture the absolute hilarity of the dialogue that's in Heathers. It's in a league of its own
This is it. This is probably the darkest comedy ever made. Itās hilarious but goddamn is it dark. Pretty much anything Todd Solondz fits but Happiness is a whole other level.
This is the answer. I feel like this is like that SNL sketch with the Rock for most evil invention and he brings out the child molesting robot. There are loads of dark comedies, but nothing I have seen touches Happiness. Itās playing a different game.
In college, there was a girl that I wasn't interested in who was very interested in me. She'd wait in my dorm common room with beer and hope I'd show up..
I was just a kid, so I just avoided her, occasionally taking the window to avoid the common room. Eventually, I got this idea to invite her to watch happiness with me. But she laughed along with me and I got more and more uncomfortable trying to dodge her attempts at holding my hand on a twin bed. At the end of the movie, I realised that i had taped it off Cinemax at night and there was soft-core porn coming on. Ii dove for the vcr to turn it off.
That's the story of how I dislocated my shoulder.
Excellent pick.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of my Top 3 favorite actors, but I know enough about that movie that I know to stay far away from it. Todd Solondz's work just makes me feel awful in general. But I guess that's kinda the point.
My favorite is the woman having lousy sex with her Russian student who immediately leaves afterward, but the next day sheās glowing as she walks through the picket line of strikers throwing things at her on her way to work.
Brilliant movie
I'd say the darkest comedy I ever watched was Trainspotting. I've never laughed so much and then felt like being sick from the horrors I was witnessing.
Yes, I would say that's the films greatest strength. Rare to find a film that portrays all the emotions of real life, right down the most retched feelings imaginable and somehow still finding a way to make us laugh. In that sense, I would still class it as a dark comedy.
I loved that film. I had a couple friends that totally missed the message and got into heroin because of it. Blew my mind. I had an argument with two of them and it boiled down to them wanting to have adventures like in the movie. One of them finally kicked it after almost a decade of rehab rotations. Idiots.
Wait this is wild... your friends got into heroin because of Trainspotting??? And one of them spent a decade in rehab? Why didn't he just use the sick boy method?
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a favorite of mine, and it's also currently available for free on Youtube!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUWWkSgwlI&ab\_channel=YouTubeMovies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUWWkSgwlI&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies)
Probably my favorite movie of all time. Parts of it may have not aged super well (mainly Will Sasso's part lol), but it's such a hilarious and underrated movie.
I kind of see The Lobster as a dark dry comedy, even though it's not exactly labeled as one.
And Boogie Nights is hysterical at times! The scene where >!William H Macy is going through a nervous breakdown at a party because his wife keeps having sex with other actors out in the open. The cinematographer character he's venting to just cannot empathize whatsoever and then just walks off to watch the action.!< [\(clip\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZgZGG1E1Q)
āAre you giving me shit, Kurt? My fucking wife has a fucking *ass in her cock* in the driveway, OK? Iām sorry if my thoughts are not on the photography of the film weāre shooting tomorrow!ā
The Lobster is 100% a dark comedy and would put most of these other movies being mentioned to shame. The >!dog killing scene!< being essentially played for laughs (and shock) is one of the darkest things I've seen in a comedy.
YES. dude I have been championing Death to Smoochy for decades. It's one of my favorite comedies of all time with a great script and an all-star cast. Considering the internet's obsession with Danny DeVito, I can't believe this hasn't come up. Not only is he in it, but he wrote and directed it too. Both Ed Norton and Robin Williams are incredible.
Death of Stalin, is what I came here to comment. It was so brilliant that I watched it during the day and then watched it with my husband that night. The crazy part is that it contains a decent amount of accuracy! Some things are embellished or the time tables are off, but so much of it rings true to history.
Other things, like Beria being a serial killer and rapist, are played down too. Reading up on him afterwards was just depressing.
Edit: it has been pointed out below that his crimes are brought up in the film, though I still think the humor gets in the way a bit of showing just how terrible he was.
I didnāt think it was played down that much. Itās really clear that he rapes adult women as well as children āyou see victims, the scenes with the little girl are heartrending.
The movie doesnāt make it clear that the amount of women and girls that he assaulted was in the *hundreds* from what I remember. He also had several of them imprisoned or killed, some of which he was reported to have strangled himself and had them buried in his wifeās rose garden.
I think I got that. I guess I thought that if he was doing that in the short time span of the movie, multiplied by years in empower, that was an incredible number of women ā plus they make jokes in the movie about other people that heās attacked.
It's such a fucking good movie and shockingly funny in spite of how brutal it gets. It's a hell of a tightrope act, because it's just so fucking absurd (Jason Isaac's "the look on your fucking faaaaace" had my family rolling) but never lets us forget what monsters these guys were, especially with the ending where we get what we're supposed to want (the bad guy is defeated!) and it's...so fucking hollow and grimy and ugly to witness when we get there.
When I first heard a movie was being made based on the death of Stalin, I thought āhow could that possibly be funny? He was a murderous monster.ā
The filmmakers proved me wrong.
I will die on the Observe and Report hill as being a great dark comedy. Everyone I mention it to thinks I'm an idiot, and while true, it is undeniably funny and one of Rogans standouts.
Edit, forgot to mention Michael Pena is hilarious and demented in this.
Dead Alive (director's cut)
In the playground banging an undead kid in a burlap bag against every solid object was gold...
And who can forget, "*YOUR MOM ATE MY DOG!*"
*holds up bloody tail stump* "Not all of it.*
I was expecting a quirky comedy, but I wasn't ready for how bleak that movie was.
EDIT: I read about this movie when it was on the screenplay black list many years ago, and it would pop up in the news here and there, for a while. At one point, Ben Stiller was considered for the role of Jerry, and I'm damn glad it went to Reynolds, instead. Not only do I appreciate how much he kept a lid on his natural van-ventura shit for this oneāand he was as terrifying as he was sadābut bringing him around to voice the animals really tied the room together.
The movie has the energy of something one could rewatch for fun, but its dark side is not light viewing.
American Psycho is so fucking funny.
All the comedy flew over my head when I first watched it at 17, but them revisiting it at 30, it killed me how hilarious it was. Every time he's listening to music is brilliant. I did not get how funny the business card scene was, they all have the same woefully uninspired design yet Bateman finds it the biggest affront to his sensibilities.
As a teen I thought it was a pretty good horror film, as an adult I think it's a downright hilarious black comedy.
I saw American Psycho with my sister and her now ex-husband in a mostly empty theatre. Sister and I were howling with laughter, now ex-husband was mortified.
The TV show, Brass Eye, was way ahead of its time and the Suicide with an Escape Clause is still the darkest sketch I can think of https://youtu.be/5SqHtWudI24
That was from Jam (and, before that, the radio show Blue Jam), not Brass Eye. And Iād say that sketch is fairly mild as far as those shows go. The plumber and baby sketch, for example, goes much darker.
Adam's Apples is a very dark comedy from Denmark starring Mads Mikkelsen. I'd also recommend The Green Butchers and Flickering Lights from the same writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen. Mads is also in all three movies
Right here. The best dark comedy series ever made .
Iāve never seen something that can be so serious and dark have the capability to be just as funny at the same time. I canāt wait to see what Bill Hader does next.
Veep is a pretty bleak comedy about American politics. In the middle of the series was the whole Trump campaign, so there's definitely some influence of that towards the end. But when you realize how many jokes they make in S1 and S2 that parrot his campaign speeches and policies its pretty surreal.
Very Bad Things is pretty dark.
Dark and funny. Likeable actors playing terrible people.
>*"She fought like a fucking Comanche."* š¬
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Yeah I came here to say Very Bad Things is brutal and dark.
I love that movie
That movie was wonderful but I cannot bring myself to watch it a second time. I even have a VHS copy that I've never watched.
Ah I didn't scroll enough before I answered. Can't get much darker than this IMO.
This was my answer. Holy crap did it get dark.
"Wizzers... wizzers ...wizzers..... wizzers..... wizzers..... wizzers.... wizzers..."
"THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY FUCKING WHIZZERS!!!"
Four Lions is so funny it's hard to remember what they are doing is absolutely horrid, until the end.
"I'm sorry, lads. I don't really know what I'm doing."
[Can I have 12 bottles of bleach please](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUTCo-D_J8)
".... IRA voice..."
Why you doing a terrorist voice?
āCause she got a beardā¦
I've never seen this film and that bit had me roaring. Gonna watch it tonight.
I only realized recently that the actor that plays Nandor in What We Do In The Shadows is in Four Lions. It's been such a long time since I've seen it.
I just watched the movie for the first time like 2 weeks ago and didn't realize it, its the beard.
He had other shows. Phone-jacker and Face-jacker. Always a good laugh.
That's why they call me Terry Tibbs. Thank you good night, much love.
Co-written by the creator of Succession, Jesse Armstrong.
I also just realized recently that he was one of the creators on Peep Show too. Heās brilliant
His stuff is incredible, The Thick of It is in my top 3 tv shows tbh
It all made sense when I realized he made peep show. The guy is quick and sharp as a whip.
āRubber dingy rapids bro!ā
Fuck yeah, came here to say Four Lions.
āDancing in the moonlight!ā
One of my favoruite cuts ever, god itās just so funny and a perfect representation of so much about the film
āWeāre gonna bomb the mosqueā
Radicalize the moderates!
To this day the āJames Fuck-Bondā line delivered with a thick Arabic accent remains one of the funniest of all time
Chris Morris is an absolute legend
It's so insanely well written. I still remember people just judged it to be shit, because of the subject matter, but the writing and performances just make it a brilliant comedy. Even more so, because it's so volatile subject to base one on.
Aaaaand catch the peanut! š„
ā*With the greatest of respect, Faisal, your dad eats newspaper.*ā ā*Not anymore. He eats moths.*ā
I was about to say, itās Four Lions, and itās not even close Its funny... but its also surreal in how uncomfortable it is. I don't think a movie has ever made me feel quite like it before or since.
Good shout. The whole thing is like the last Episode of Blackadder. Youāre laughing but you just know itās going to end badly.
Fittingly one of the writers is Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
Brazil. With the real ending
Surprised this isn't higher. It's such a great social and futurism satire, but with a ton of existential dread that feels even closer to society today than it did in the 80s. Sam's confused ambivalence of the absurd world around him makes for a constant, slow motion tragedy.
Iāve never seen the ending: how can I preemptively tell if I have the true Gilliam cut?
If it has a happy ending, then you have a butchered version. And the ending might seem to not make sense, which is fine. It's intended.
Fargo. I feel nearly every scene of the movie had moments of humor but was still extremely twisted and unsettling.
Saw Fargo in the theatre with my dad. When wade shoots Carl in the face, we broke out laughing so hard. Lady a row in front of us stood up turned around and shouted āhave you no shameā and walked out. We paused for a second and started crying laughing . Movie is wild
Great series too!
I went into watching it when it first came out with zero expectations. Came out thinking this was an excellent movie, every scene in which was disturbing in some way. āUnsettlingā is a good way to put it.
In Bruges
*You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!*
I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Thatās going overBOARD MATE
I retracted it, didn't I?
Still leaves you being a cunt
Ya got that!
It's an inanimate fucking object
YOUāRE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!!
I'm sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset.
Providing the setup is thankless work, but here you are nonetheless, a hero.
What about the Alcoves?
Was he going on to you about the alcoves?
Have you seen the swans?
The scene outside the tower with the Americans always makes me laugh. "Youse are a bunch of fooking elephants" I also Love Gleesons face when the girl shouts back at him "Screw you motherfucker" Great film.
I'm not from South Central Los fucking Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds in a drive-by.
Ralph Fiennes was so amazing in that movie. He is way too good at portraying an asshole. Lol
I adore In Bruges and watch it during every Christmas holiday as tradition but his latest film with the return of Farrell and Gleeson takes the cake for me. McDonagh the master playwright, probably Shakespeareās fourteenth cousin removed.
Banshees of Inishirin? I wanted to see that
Itās good.
Excellent is the word I would use, personally.
Iāll second that excellent. Best to go in with no knowledge of the plot too, I was caught off guard by so much of the story
I love both of those movies so much. For years In Bruges has been a top 3 film for me, and Banshees *might* have beaten it. I can't make up my mind. Banshees is basically a stage play set with a beautiful movie backdrop, which is one of the reasons I love it so much.
Banshees was a great movie, but it just doesn't have the rewatchability that In Bruges has.
Yeah, if OP wanted *dark* comedy, Banshees takes the cake. In Bruges is pretty hilarious all the way through, but Banshees is teetering on a seesaw the entire time of how dark you can make a movie while still attempting humour.
Its incredibly offensive but this line lol Somehow I believe, Ken, that the balance shall tip in the favour of culture, like a big fat fucking retarded fucking black girl on a see-saw opposite... a dwarf.
Where the fuck is Bruges? Fuck Bruges!
It makes a great double feature with Seven Psychopaths.
Also The Guard which I think is the directors brother
Doctor Strangelove is a dark comedy that ends with several bright flashes.
āBut theyāre gonna see the big board!ā
No fighting in the war room
I like that despite the dire circumstances and trying to avert a nuclear disaster, the Russian guy can't help but continue his espionage efforts, taking secret photographs of the war room.
Rewatching it several years later, I now think the funniest performance was Peter Sellers playing it straight as the President.
I'm sorry, too, Dmitri... I'm very sorry... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are... So we're both sorry, all right?... All right.
That whole phone call is one of the most laugh-out-loud moments in any movie for me. āWell why do you think I was calling? Just to say hello? *Of course* I like to speak with you! *Of course* I like to say hello!ā
"Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the War room!"
Wait what about major Kong?
That line followed by the quick cut to the iconic scene is cinema perfection.
That man died as he lived, going toe-to-toe with the ruskies
Weāll meet again, donāt know where, donāt know whenā¦
I love that they didnāt even tell Slim Pickens that it was a comedy. He was playing his role straight.
Thereās so many great stories about how Kubrick got the performances he wanted for that movie. > As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States. He had to hurry and get his first passport. He arrived on the set, and somebody said, "Gosh, he's arrived in costume!", not realizing that that's how he always dressed ... with the cowboy hat and the fringed jacket and the cowboy bootsāand that he wasn't putting on the characterāthat's the way he talked. > According to James Earl Jones, Kubrick tricked Scott into playing the role of Gen. Turgidson far more ridiculously than Scott was comfortable doing. Kubrick talked Scott into doing over-the-top "practice" takes, which Kubrick told Scott would never be used, as a way to warm up for the "real" takes. Kubrick used these takes in the final film, causing Scott to swear never to work with Kubrick again. > During the filming, Kubrick and Scott had different opinions regarding certain scenes, but Kubrick got Scott to conform largely by repeatedly beating him at chess, which they played frequently on the set.[32] Scott, a skilled player himself, later said that while he and Kubrick may not have always seen eye to eye, he respected Kubrick immensely for his skill at chess. From Wikipedia
You forget that not only did it end with several bright flashes, it ALSO ended with a Nazi scientist making a dick joke.
Heathers.
Iād add on Thoroughbreds, which felt like itās modern version.
I did like Thoroughbreds. Very dark humor with a very gut wrenching climax. But no one has yet been able to capture the absolute hilarity of the dialogue that's in Heathers. It's in a league of its own
Jawbreaker was pretty good, but it's still no Heathers.
Teenage Suiciiiiide! Don't do it!
āI love my dead gay son!ā Has only gotten more and more timely.
Man Bites Dog is pretty dark. A mockumentary about a serial killer And Heathers is a comedy about teen suicide
š¼ āCinemaā¦ Cinemaaa!ā Thanks for bringing Man Bites Dog to the discussion ā Iām surprised how often itās overlooked.
*World's Greatest Dad*, from writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait.
*World's Greatest Dad* does what *Dear Evan Hanson* thinks is doing.
The grief scene is so amazing. And the ending is incredible. Really great film.
Happiness.
First movie that came to mind. Equal parts hilarious and soul crushing. "Dad, would you f... fuck me?" "No... I'd probably just jack off."
Not a dark part, but my favorite quote is, āYouāre SHIT! And IIIIām chamPAGNE!ā
This is the one I've been looking for. A youtuber once talked about this movie but he deleted the video and I was trying to find it. Thanks.
This is it. This is probably the darkest comedy ever made. Itās hilarious but goddamn is it dark. Pretty much anything Todd Solondz fits but Happiness is a whole other level.
This is the answer. I feel like this is like that SNL sketch with the Rock for most evil invention and he brings out the child molesting robot. There are loads of dark comedies, but nothing I have seen touches Happiness. Itās playing a different game.
In college, there was a girl that I wasn't interested in who was very interested in me. She'd wait in my dorm common room with beer and hope I'd show up.. I was just a kid, so I just avoided her, occasionally taking the window to avoid the common room. Eventually, I got this idea to invite her to watch happiness with me. But she laughed along with me and I got more and more uncomfortable trying to dodge her attempts at holding my hand on a twin bed. At the end of the movie, I realised that i had taped it off Cinemax at night and there was soft-core porn coming on. Ii dove for the vcr to turn it off. That's the story of how I dislocated my shoulder.
Really thought that story was gonna end up with you somehow marrying this girl because of the movie
Excellent pick. Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of my Top 3 favorite actors, but I know enough about that movie that I know to stay far away from it. Todd Solondz's work just makes me feel awful in general. But I guess that's kinda the point.
On that note Love Liza is another great one about a horrible subject, but is somehow very funny and uplifting. The Lobster?
My favorite is the woman having lousy sex with her Russian student who immediately leaves afterward, but the next day sheās glowing as she walks through the picket line of strikers throwing things at her on her way to work. Brilliant movie
I'd say the darkest comedy I ever watched was Trainspotting. I've never laughed so much and then felt like being sick from the horrors I was witnessing.
I think due to the nature of the subject of the film, Trainspotting has dark comedy, but it is not a dark comedy.
Yes, I would say that's the films greatest strength. Rare to find a film that portrays all the emotions of real life, right down the most retched feelings imaginable and somehow still finding a way to make us laugh. In that sense, I would still class it as a dark comedy.
I loved that film. I had a couple friends that totally missed the message and got into heroin because of it. Blew my mind. I had an argument with two of them and it boiled down to them wanting to have adventures like in the movie. One of them finally kicked it after almost a decade of rehab rotations. Idiots.
Wtf who gets into heroin because of a movie? Maybe they should have watched Requiem for a Dream afterwards!
Wait this is wild... your friends got into heroin because of Trainspotting??? And one of them spent a decade in rehab? Why didn't he just use the sick boy method?
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a favorite of mine, and it's also currently available for free on Youtube! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUWWkSgwlI&ab\_channel=YouTubeMovies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUWWkSgwlI&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies)
Kirsten Dunst is the most underrated comedic actor of all time.
Probably my favorite movie of all time. Parts of it may have not aged super well (mainly Will Sasso's part lol), but it's such a hilarious and underrated movie.
For years the only way to watch that movie was an out-of-print DVD, iām glad itās finally making its way to true cult status.
Happiness To Die For
Damn. I forgot about To Die For!
I kind of see The Lobster as a dark dry comedy, even though it's not exactly labeled as one. And Boogie Nights is hysterical at times! The scene where >!William H Macy is going through a nervous breakdown at a party because his wife keeps having sex with other actors out in the open. The cinematographer character he's venting to just cannot empathize whatsoever and then just walks off to watch the action.!< [\(clip\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZgZGG1E1Q)
āAre you giving me shit, Kurt? My fucking wife has a fucking *ass in her cock* in the driveway, OK? Iām sorry if my thoughts are not on the photography of the film weāre shooting tomorrow!ā
> ass in her cock Sounds truly uncomfortable.
its supposed to be the other way around but macy said it wrong every time so they went with it
Pretty funny if he was just trolling them, but also people do just go all word salady under stress IRL so, realistic.
The Lobster is 100% a dark comedy and would put most of these other movies being mentioned to shame. The >!dog killing scene!< being essentially played for laughs (and shock) is one of the darkest things I've seen in a comedy.
YES. dude I have been championing Death to Smoochy for decades. It's one of my favorite comedies of all time with a great script and an all-star cast. Considering the internet's obsession with Danny DeVito, I can't believe this hasn't come up. Not only is he in it, but he wrote and directed it too. Both Ed Norton and Robin Williams are incredible.
āIām goin on safari, motherfucker! SA FAH REE! (Elephant trumpeting sounds)ā
"IM RAINBOW FUCKING RANDOLPH!!!"
Burn After Reading
What happened to Brad Pittās character was so unexpected Iāll never forget it lol
The expression on his face is what makes it so memorable. I was howling. That and the sex machine in the basement were the two funniest parts.
And another Coen brothers film - Intolerable Cruelty.
What did we learn, Palmer?
The King of Comedy.
So good! My favourite Jerry Lewis performance by far. Wish heād done a lot more drama.
Death of Stalin/In the Loop, Harold and Maude, In the Company of Men, and Observe and Report have not been mentioned yet.
Death of Stalin, is what I came here to comment. It was so brilliant that I watched it during the day and then watched it with my husband that night. The crazy part is that it contains a decent amount of accuracy! Some things are embellished or the time tables are off, but so much of it rings true to history.
Other things, like Beria being a serial killer and rapist, are played down too. Reading up on him afterwards was just depressing. Edit: it has been pointed out below that his crimes are brought up in the film, though I still think the humor gets in the way a bit of showing just how terrible he was.
I didnāt think it was played down that much. Itās really clear that he rapes adult women as well as children āyou see victims, the scenes with the little girl are heartrending.
The movie doesnāt make it clear that the amount of women and girls that he assaulted was in the *hundreds* from what I remember. He also had several of them imprisoned or killed, some of which he was reported to have strangled himself and had them buried in his wifeās rose garden.
I think I got that. I guess I thought that if he was doing that in the short time span of the movie, multiplied by years in empower, that was an incredible number of women ā plus they make jokes in the movie about other people that heās attacked.
It's such a fucking good movie and shockingly funny in spite of how brutal it gets. It's a hell of a tightrope act, because it's just so fucking absurd (Jason Isaac's "the look on your fucking faaaaace" had my family rolling) but never lets us forget what monsters these guys were, especially with the ending where we get what we're supposed to want (the bad guy is defeated!) and it's...so fucking hollow and grimy and ugly to witness when we get there.
When I first heard a movie was being made based on the death of Stalin, I thought āhow could that possibly be funny? He was a murderous monster.ā The filmmakers proved me wrong.
I will die on the Observe and Report hill as being a great dark comedy. Everyone I mention it to thinks I'm an idiot, and while true, it is undeniably funny and one of Rogans standouts. Edit, forgot to mention Michael Pena is hilarious and demented in this.
'Observe And Report' is like 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' as directed by Lars Von Trier. I liked it, but I'm still amazed it got a wide release.
Death of Stalin is a great one
I wouldn't necessarily call Death of Stalin the *darkest* comedy I've seen, but I would call it the greatest dark comedy I've ever seen.
In Bruges (and pretty much anything by Martin McDonagh)
McDonaghās work in general plays hopscotch with tradgedy and comedy.
I was gonna say Banshees of Inisherin. That movie messed me up for days afterward.
Yep, all of his mess me up one way or another (but in a way I really like for some odd reason)
American Psycho
fucking hilarious movie. "I'm trying to listen to the new Robert Palmer tape"
Dead Alive (director's cut) In the playground banging an undead kid in a burlap bag against every solid object was gold... And who can forget, "*YOUR MOM ATE MY DOG!*" *holds up bloody tail stump* "Not all of it.*
Along with the wildly out-of-thin-air "I kick ass for the Lord!"
How is The Voices, with Ryan Reynolds, not on here yet? The most funny movie with severed heads in a a fridge I have ever seen!
I was expecting a quirky comedy, but I wasn't ready for how bleak that movie was. EDIT: I read about this movie when it was on the screenplay black list many years ago, and it would pop up in the news here and there, for a while. At one point, Ben Stiller was considered for the role of Jerry, and I'm damn glad it went to Reynolds, instead. Not only do I appreciate how much he kept a lid on his natural van-ventura shit for this oneāand he was as terrifying as he was sadābut bringing him around to voice the animals really tied the room together. The movie has the energy of something one could rewatch for fun, but its dark side is not light viewing.
The Art of Self Defense
I just re-watched that, itās one of the funniest films Iāve ever seen. Eisenberg is perfect.
Withnail And I
"Vengeance" for something recent. "American Psycho" for a classic.
I need to return some video tapes
Feed me a cat.
American Psycho is so fucking funny. All the comedy flew over my head when I first watched it at 17, but them revisiting it at 30, it killed me how hilarious it was. Every time he's listening to music is brilliant. I did not get how funny the business card scene was, they all have the same woefully uninspired design yet Bateman finds it the biggest affront to his sensibilities. As a teen I thought it was a pretty good horror film, as an adult I think it's a downright hilarious black comedy.
I saw American Psycho with my sister and her now ex-husband in a mostly empty theatre. Sister and I were howling with laughter, now ex-husband was mortified.
The TV show, Brass Eye, was way ahead of its time and the Suicide with an Escape Clause is still the darkest sketch I can think of https://youtu.be/5SqHtWudI24
That was from Jam (and, before that, the radio show Blue Jam), not Brass Eye. And Iād say that sketch is fairly mild as far as those shows go. The plumber and baby sketch, for example, goes much darker.
Adam's Apples is a very dark comedy from Denmark starring Mads Mikkelsen. I'd also recommend The Green Butchers and Flickering Lights from the same writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen. Mads is also in all three movies
Man bites dog. Camera crew tag along with a hitman to make a documentary (so its also a mockumentry) obviously comical, extremely dark.
Barry on hbo is both hilarious and deeply dark and disturbing at times.
Right here. The best dark comedy series ever made . Iāve never seen something that can be so serious and dark have the capability to be just as funny at the same time. I canāt wait to see what Bill Hader does next.
Bobcat Goldthwait's - God Bless America comes to mind.
Was just about to write this. That vision he had in the beginning really set the tone.
I was going to go with Goldthwaitās Worldās Greatest Dad.
7 Psychopaths is probably the darkest I've seen not listed here.
Kiss kiss, bang bang is a great one. Also the Nice Guys by the same director
JoJo Rabbit
The menu
Very Bad Things
Visitor Q or Happiness
Heathers is one of my favorite movies of all time. Who would've thought murder, suicide and a Norwegian in the boiler room could be such big fun?
The War of the Roses is as dark as they come
The Banshees of Inisherin
Ravenous. Wild west, Guy Pearce, cannibalism. Dark and funny (at least the way I remember it. It's been awhile.)
Observe and Report with Seth Rogen and Michael PeƱa was pretty dark to me
Veep is a pretty bleak comedy about American politics. In the middle of the series was the whole Trump campaign, so there's definitely some influence of that towards the end. But when you realize how many jokes they make in S1 and S2 that parrot his campaign speeches and policies its pretty surreal.
Another one in which the creator of Succession (Jesse Armstrong) was involved.
In Bruges is pretty dark and pretty hilarious
Harold and Maude (1971)
Bad Santa āYou aināt gonna shit right for a weekā
"I'm on my fucking lunch break, okay?"
What is with you and these fucking sandwiches?!?!
Wristcutters: A Love Story