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Dark humor

Dark humor is the comedy equivalent of looking directly at something painful—you're naming the unspeakable thing, which paradoxically makes it less powerful by refusing to treat it as forbidden. It's not that the joke makes light of tragedy; it's that by laughing, you're briefly taking your power back from it.

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