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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Most of the middle of Ep. 4 in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' is Beatrice having fun making the story play out as much as a cheesy kids' action anime as possible. [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]], [[Out-of-Character Moment]], [[Interface Screw]], you name it. {{spoiler|After everyone stops acting it becomes obvious in hindsight.}}
* We have [[All Men Are Perverts|uncontrolled lechery]], [[Would Hit a Girl|fathers beating their daughters]], bipolar childhood friends with murderous grudges, [[Kill It Withwith Fire|a pyromaniac baby]], a mother who wishes her son was never born, wanton property destruction, and alien invasions. This is ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. All of the above is ''frikken hilarious''.
* Try [[Ranma Half|an Aquatransexual]] with {{spoiler|a mother who thinks he should be manly or [[Seppuku|face the sword]],}} ''way'' too many Fiancées, [[I Know Kung Faux|rivals who practice]] all kinds of [[Martial Arts and Crafts|ridiculous martial arts]], a [[Dirty Old Man]] [[Fair Weather Mentor]] who will stop at nothing [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|to get him into a bra]], [[Weirdness Magnet|and all sorts of other random stuff happening in his neighborhood.]]
* Despite occasional [[Mood Whiplash]], ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is this for world history.
* In ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'', Kouji's sexism and [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|the fights between him and Sayaka]] nearly always are [[Played for Laughs]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' plays its {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]] ending}} for laughs, by immediately following it with a {{spoiler|[[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] Ending.}}
* The most famous example is probably ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' and how it plays [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] as a farcical [[Black Comedy]].
* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' features a teenage boy meeting his young mother through [[Time Travel]] and her rather forwardly [[Incest Is Relative|coming on to him]], which it plays mostly for laughs.
* ''[[Four Lions]]'', a farcical black comedy about five Muslim suicide bombers and their ultimately successful quest to blow themselves and other people up in the most pointless ways possible.
* ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'': What Raven and Beast Boy are doing reflects a type of comedy that Japan has called Manzai, where there is a serious straight and an irreverent idiot ([[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]), only it's in an American parody and mockery of the original Japanese Manzai.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'', particularly ''[[World War I|Blackadder Goes Forth]]'', likewise (except in [[Tear Jerker|the finale]]).
* [[Comedic Sociopath|Sam's]] cruel, oftentimes [[God of War|Kratos-esque]] treatment of [[Butt Monkey|Freddie]] on ''[[I Carly|iCarly]]'' is often played for laughs. And always unsettling in its nature.
* On a similar vein, much of ''[[Victorious]]''' humor comes from jokes that imply [[Black Comedy|mental instability, death, parental abandonment]], etc. In real life, this would be horrifying, and [[Dude, Not Funny|it's not too funny when they make jokes about it anyway]].
* Forgetful Jones from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' is played purely for comedic value, but all his supposedly funny mistakes show all the signs of advanced dementia. What person thought that would be a great concept for a [[Butt Monkey]] character on a kids show?
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Zaboo from ''[[The Guild]]'''s [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] behavior would be horrifically creepy in [[Real Life]], but on the show it's over the top funny.
* The blog ''Cut!'' is basically [[Slender Man]] [[Played for Laughs]]. At one point, [[Took a Level In Dumbass|Slendy himself actually bumps into a clear glass door before slinking off in embarrassment.]]
 
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* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' does this to the old chestnut of an alien coming to infiltrate society, in all but one episode- the pure [[Nightmare Fuel]] that is "Dark Harvest".
* The infamous Lucy-pulling-the-football-away-from-Charlie-Brown gag in the ''[[Peanuts]]'' series.
* ''[[Ka Blam!]]'': Billy from "The Off-Beats", The [[Running Gag]] in the series usually involved Billy saying something that would get Tina mad, and then the Populars would throw him out of the group, causing Billy to crash into something.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' in the episode "Fear Itself". Beast Boy, [[Genre Savvy|being an aficionado of horror movies]], spends most of the episode (until he's caught) [[Lampshade Hanging|telling everyone]] not to [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|split up]] as the monster ''always'' gets his targets easier that way, and that he, the funny guy, will inevitably be taken first. He ends up being right.
 
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