The horde joined him, falling about with merriment at their Chiefs black joke.

'Child support has been a black joke for years,' she said.

Among units that lack armored Humvees, the mood 20 months into the war tends more to black jokes than to recrimination.

If so, it's the one black joke in a masterpiece of imperious gloom.

In the Requiem (1963-5), he responded to the subject of death as both ominous certainty and black joke.

Bernstein refers to this as a "black joke", creating a chilling effect that is fully consistent with neoclassic musical style.

But here we have the black joke.

The air in Pittsburgh, a city once branded "hell with the lid off," has for some time ceased to be a black joke without a punch line.

There's almost a black joke in that, but it's true; and I think Singer understood that.

Balthazar Getty is seen briefly as a young man who gets killed at a gas station, which probably qualifies as some kind of black joke.