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* Globe Magazine is a tabloid magazine that often [[Blatant Lies|completely fabricates]] stories about celebrities. Oftentimes, it gets past the line that's accepted as satire i.e. [[The Onion]], into making unsubstantiated and vicious rumors about celebrities. They [[Moral Event Horizon|reached a low even more vicious than usual]] by making their front-page article titled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907045529/http://www.globemagazine.com/story/526 Who will die first?], and [http://gossiponthis.com/2010/06/09/globe-magazine-releases-gary-coleman-death-photos/ publishing the deathbed photos of Gary Coleman].

* This very page has shown various Google ads that qualify as this due to the juxtaposition, ranging from a pregnancy calendar to "5 Ways to Help Baby Sleep". "Intelligent keywords" are comedy gold.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** In one case, a snake was crawling through a crib, with a huge bulge in its center. Gary Larson commented, "No, you didn't see this. Turn the page." The real joke of the picture was that the snake became so enlarged by the bulk of the freshly consumed infant that it couldn't squeeze through the bars of the crib, and was trapped.

** Another strip that newspapers refused to publish concerned some cowboys who were so hungry they could eat a horse, and did so. (A good example of [[Values Dissonance]]: in several European countries horse meat is openly sold in every butcher's shop.)

* EVERY SINGLE STRIP of the New York Daily News-exclusive comic ''[[Between the Lines (comic strip)|Between the Lines]]'' is this.

 

* Not long after [[Chris Benoit]] had strangled his wife and son to death, then hanged himself, a picture of him crying made its way around the Internet, with the caption [[Dude, Not Funny|"They were supposed to tap out!"]] You can see it [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WCrIotSdkFA/Sbq3y3obmVI/AAAAAAAABXw/McbmIWOxUVs/s400/benoit+supposed+to+tap+out.jpg here].

 

== [[Puppet Shows]] ==

* On the 11/14/10 episode of ''[[The Funday Pawpet Show]]'' everyone was watching a reporter show footage of an angry man in a Rascal scooter ram an elevator door three times, the third time disappearing down the shaft to his real-life death. As the reporter showed the footage again, out of nowhere cast member Blitz said "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" completely catching everyone off guard.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The classic Punch and Judy puppet show, especially in its harsher incarnations, is an [[Older Than Radio]] example.

* Every single production by Pittsburgh-based theatre company Rage of the Stage falls into this category. Their [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] was a ''[[Wizard of Oz]]'' adaptation featuring a mentally insane and heavily medicated Dorothy, a heroin-addicted Scarecrow, and a sex-obsessed Lion.

 

== Theme Parks ==

* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' has quite a bit of this mixed in with all the [[Nightmare Fuel]].

 

== TV Tropes Wiki ==

* The image caption on the [[Driven to Suicide]] page:

{{quote|"He got better. His life, alas, did not."}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' towards Guy's fear of women. During a good portion of the game, whenever a girl comes very close to him (especially if they touch him) he recoils in fear and starts screaming. ''Hilarious'', and becomes a [[Running Gag]] But then we learn why he's so afraid of contact with women... {{spoiler|When he was young, his home, Hod, was being attacked by Duke fon Fabre's men. Guy was hidden inside a (Thankfully extinguished) fireplace by his older sister and the house maids, and then the soldiers came in. In order to protect him, Guy's sister and the maids threw themselves onto Guy as the soldiers killed them all. He passed out, but when he came to, he was smothered in a pile of dead women}}. Suffice to say, [[Dude, Not Funny|nobody was laughing after that]].

 

** The sister comic, ''Warbot In Accounting'' includes an example. The eponymous warbot, in an attempt to become a father, buys a kit to build a robot, only to produce a distorted, agonized thing. Warbot proceeds to dump the malformed baby robot in the trash.

*** "It's so dark, daddy. So daaaaaaark...."

* ''[[The Snail Factory]]''

* K.C. Green's works, such as ''[[Gunshow]]'' and ''Horribleville'', function on Black Comedy as if it were fuel. The fact that Green is diagnosed with severe depression, which many of his comics deal with, doesn't help any of it.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Skippy's List|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

{{quote|54. "Napalm sticks to kids" is *not* a motivational phrase.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|Brodhagen then related the story of another tragic suicide note, discovered at the feet of a 15-year-old St. Louis boy who had hanged himself.

"The boy's mother opened the door to his room one morning to wake him up for school," Brodhagen said, "and she screamed in horror at what she saw: Dangling, right there in front of her, was {{spoiler|a participle}}." }}

* Often used on ''[[Mock the Week]]'', ''especially'' by Frankie Boyle. On the subject of pets:

{{quote|"I don't know how long I could be a vet before I got bored and started shagging stuff. I'd shag an owl, because whatever position you took it from you could always get eye contact. Or shag a kitten--could you imagine having sex with something you ''wanted'' to cuddle afterwards?"}}

 

 

* In [http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/Where-Zombie-Babies-Come-From-6979550 this] picture by Ursula Vernon [[Delivery Stork]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] dead babies. Enjoy.

* Q: What is the best way to get 100 dead babies out of a blender? A: With chips! http://www.dead-baby-joke.com/introduction.htm

** Q: And why did nobody help him to get up? A: Because he has no friends!

* Relatively similar and equally repellent are Helen Keller jokes: Q: How did Helen Keller burn her fingers? A: By reading the waffle iron. And countless others.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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