Your Favourite Black Humour

19-02-2019 03:01PM #1

Black humour can be a welcome relief in any desparate situation - what's your favourite recollection of black humour in a rough spot you observed, or found yourself in?

My Dad, who had been dying for years, organised his own funeral. The usual boring prayers, pslams and hymns. nothing unusual. But as we were carrying out his coffin, he'd had the organist play the tune to the folk song 'Working Man'.

For anyone not familiar with that, i added a link. It's the one that goes "It's a working man I am, and I go down/ underground/ ... And I never again will go down/ underground".

He had been an engineer for years, so had spent a lot of time underground - but the gag, of course, was we were about to put him underground again.

It was a rare moment of comic relief on the day. So AH , tell us yer favourite recollections of dark humour?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFqVgz1AGo

barneystinson · 19-02-2019 03:02PM

Richard Pryor...

pleas advice · 19-02-2019 03:02PM

Big Mommas House, 2

pleas advice · 19-02-2019 03:04PM

barneystinson wrote: »

Richard Pryor...

I probably would have got in first if I didnt go for the sequel

Deebles McBeebles · 19-02-2019 03:18PM

Frankie Boyle.

Also, grandfather's funeral, very sad day, got locked, went to nightclub with cousins, cousin nutted a guy for saying Chelsea were sh*t, laughed all the way home.

biko · 19-02-2019 03:24PM

Clayton Bigsby: The Black White Supremacist

19-02-2019 03:25PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

cousin nutted a guy for saying Chelsea were sh*t

I think 'nutting' means something different in your locale than in mine.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nut

Deebles McBeebles · 19-02-2019 03:28PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think 'nutting' means something different in your locale than in mine.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nut

Now that would have been memorable!

I meant nutting as in headbutting.

Deebles McBeebles · 19-02-2019 03:30PM

biko wrote: »

Clayton Bigsby: The Black White Supremacist

Let's talk about Chinese people! With their kung-fu and their silly ching-chang-chong talk! We can't understand you! Go back to yer country! White power!

That is a quote before anyone freaks out. Its one of the less offensive ones too.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 19-02-2019 03:30PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Frankie Boyle.

Also, grandfather's funeral, very sad day, got locked, went to nightclub with cousins, cousin nutted a guy for saying Chelsea were sh*t, laughed all the way home.

That's not humour, that's just drunken stupidity.

leggo · 19-02-2019 03:33PM

While my grandad was on his deathbed, family didn’t know what to do, so we all sat around him and someone said “Will we say some prayers?” The prayer book got passed around and a few people read one. My auntie is reading one and ended it with “And this is the word of the lord. Please turn over to the next page.” We all died. Well, just my grandad did, but you know what I mean.

Deebles McBeebles · 19-02-2019 03:34PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

That's not humour, that's just drunken stupidity.

We laughed. Humour.

Bigbagofcans · 19-02-2019 03:39PM

How did you know when it was Michael Jackson's bedtime?
When the big hand touched the little hand.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 19-02-2019 03:43PM

At my granny’s wake, she was laid out in The Good Room of her house. You know, the rarely-used room pretty much everyone’s grandparents had. When alive, she never allowed anyone to smoke in The Good Room, despite being an inveterate smoker herself all her life.

At the wake, my uncle was sitting next to her coffin and said “Can I light up, mam?” before doing so. Yes, he asked his mother’s cadaver if he could smoke in The Good Room.

The same uncle lit up whilst following his father’s coffin down the aisle of the church 30-odd years earlier.

I think he was in a daze when he did that though.

kneemos · 19-02-2019 03:45PM

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

Reganio 2 · 19-02-2019 03:47PM

kneemos wrote: »

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

Hahhahahahaha.... Jokes?

19-02-2019 04:06PM

kneemos wrote: »

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

Is this true?

Any reference? Amazing if so.

corner of hells · 19-02-2019 04:08PM

kneemos wrote: »

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

My wife has Jewish ancestry , after watching Schindler's List , one my son's told her could smell gas in the kitchen.

kneemos · 19-02-2019 04:34PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is this true?

Any reference? Amazing if so.

Can't remember rightly tbh.

topper75 · 19-02-2019 04:36PM

kneemos wrote: »

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

Pretty dark :pac: -how was it received?

Midnight_EG · 19-02-2019 04:41PM

kneemos wrote: »

The group that arrived at Auschwitz just as they were closing for the day.
After some discussion and reluctance of the staff to let them in they explained that they were all Jewish.

So they said OK, go in.

Sort of, kind of...along the lines of this but I was in Dachau last September. We'd driven from Stuttgart and decided to pop in before flying back out from Munich. About an hour into strolling around (and near the gas chamber/crematorium) and a friend asks me do I realise what T-Shirt I'm wearing?!

In big 'ol caps it said 'SMOKING BASTARDS'

Spent the rest of the time with my arms folded

Edgware · 19-02-2019 04:45PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is this true?

Any reference? Amazing if so.

I heard that one before and just cant remember the parties involved. It was long after the war and a few actors were visiting Berlin. A group decided to visit Sachenhausen and there was a Jews in the group. On arrival at the camp they were about to close up for the day. One of the group said that there were two Jews in the car. The security staff said allright ye can go in.
I think I heard it on Parkinson and it could have been Dachau either

Sorry about that · 19-02-2019 04:49PM

A Belgian film called Man Bites Dog, the blackest funniest film I’ve ever seen. A mockumentary about a serial killer. Hilarious.

groovie · 19-02-2019 04:54PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is this true?

Any reference? Amazing if so.

It was Graham Chapman of Monty Python, they were late visiting Dachau. He apologised immediately. They didn't go in, iirc.

Edgware · 19-02-2019 04:56PM

groovie wrote: »

It was Graham Chapman of Monty Python, they were late visiting Dachau. He apologised immediately. They didn't go in, iirc.

Thanks. I just couldnt remember who it was told the story

kowloon · 19-02-2019 05:09PM

biko wrote: »

Clayton Bigsby: The Black White Supremacist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oXFmuUHLQ

jimgoose · 20-02-2019 03:09PM

Eddie Griffin:

Your Favourite Black Humour

Comments