Gato_Solo said:
Monty Python is dark comedy? Warped, yes...Irreverant, yes...but dark?
I was questioning that one too, actually. But then I thought if you listen to some of the stuff they say in
Monty Python, like...
"Oh! King, ay, very nice! And how did you get that, ay? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated, imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society..."
and
"We’re living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy..."
Yeah, I know, I know, it's supposed to be funny and it is. But it's still heavily satirical - and that's kind of what dark comedies do a lot of the time. Like...say, American Beauty or Fight Club.