The "Coed Killer"—Ed Kemper, played by Cameron Britton has a polite manner and a droll command of ironic distance; he performs morbid drawing-room comedy in leg shackles.
The sitcom, which returned to Netflix with a second season on April 15, crams an almost mind-boggling range of silliness and deeply morbid, envelope-pushing comedy into each episode.
Julia Davis, who wrote the show and stars as Jill, has managed to create a comedy so morbid it can be hard to bear.
STUCK ON YOU -- The Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, have given moviegoers comedy about multiple personalities, morbid obesity, dogs in body casts and wayward ejaculate.
Black humour, also called black comedy, writing that juxtaposes morbid or ghastly elements with comical ones that underscore the senselessness or futility of life.
Bawdy comedy sits uncomfortably alongside some very morbid and violent elements.
Stand-up comedy open mics become wastelands of morbid low-blows taking eager advantage of the fact that every stranger in the audience shares a precious shred of knowledge: That celebrity is dead now.
