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* [[Don Hertzfeldt]], when his films aren't out-and-out [[Surreal Humor|surreal.]]

* ''Anything'' made by Todd Solondz.

* Chris manages this in ''[[Tomorrow When the War Began]]''. He describes in horrific detail how he found his neighbours shot dead in their car along with their baby daughter by the invading soldiers, but his stoned dialogue is hilarious enough that it [[Crosses the Line Twice]].

* The ''[[Feast]]'' trilogy is this whenever it's not occupied with [[Gorn]] (and sometimes when it is).

* ''[[Airplane!]]'' features a number of scenes that [[Crosses the Line Twice|Cross The Line Twice]] in this fashion, including implied extreme violence against a [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|hysterical woman]], blatant racial stereotyping [[Played for Laughs]], and passengers and crew cheerfully oblivious to the dying struggles of a [[Littlest Cancer Patient]].

* The Thailand action/comedy film ''SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis'' features a few rather tasteless jokes, like a zombie fetus clawing its way out of its mother's stomach to attack the heroes, only to be foiled by the umbilical cord still being attached (and too short).

* [[Kevin Smith]] has been known to dabble in this, particularly in [[Clerks]] when it turns out {{spoiler|Caitlin accidentally had sex with a corpse.}}

* The TV movie ''Sunset Limousine'' is generally family-friendly, but there are a few instances of black humour, the blackest of them all coming when [[John Ritter]] fights a casket as it is being drawn into an oven (specifically, he tries and fails—humorously—to pull it out as it goes in). Easily the most scarily funny moment of Ritter's three-decade career.

* The [[Alfred Hitchcock]] comedy ''[[The Trouble with Harry]]''.

 

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