What does gray humor mean?

Gray humor refers to making people laugh and think. Usually jokes based on the dark side of things.

Gray humor originated from the book Black Humor. Black humor is an absurd, abnormal and morbid literary genre. It is a comedy that juxtaposes pain and laughter, absurd facts with disproportionate calm response, cruelty and gentleness. It is an important literary genre in the United States in the 1960s.

Black humor is a literary method to express tragic content in the form of comedy. "Black" stands for death, which is a terrible and funny reality, and "humor" is a cynical attitude of a willing individual to this reality. Adding black to humor becomes desperate humor. This school of writers mobilizes all the artistic techniques that can be mobilized to enlarge and distort the funny, ugly, deformed and dark world around them, making it even more absurd.

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In the American literary world in the 1960s, many writers showed similarities in their creative styles: single-dimensional personality, intentional separation of characters and feelings, absurdity, abnormal handling of tragic materials, and fragmented narrative structure; A clear understanding of unreliable reality and a detached wait-and-see; Regardless of good and evil, imitation, ridicule and so on.

1965, American writer Bruce Jay Friedman compiled the works of 12 writers with black humor style published in American newspapers and periodicals since 1960s into a small book and published it, named Black Humor. These writers did not have an assembly or association, nor did they have the same program or manifesto, but their works appeared in the American literary world at that time with a similar appearance.

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