The bleak, absurdist comedy of "The Office" is very British, akin in spirit to Kingsley Amis novels and Spike Milligan's radio skits on "The Goon Show."

Poking around the Civil War can lead both to such impasses and to bleak comedy.

The bleak comedy tells the story of a family living in fear of their country being overtaken by Islam.

In a time of professional crisis, Fassbinder made Satan's Brew (Satansbraten, 1976) a bleak amoral comedy that pays homage to Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty.

Another film - a bleak, low-budget comedy called "The Ref" - was No. 4 at the box office in mid-March 1994.

A bleak comedy of contradiction ensued, played out against the swelling fear of a potentially lethal, totally invisible enemy.

Call it bleak comedy, as in the son's tale of how he and his friend robbed an undertaker's parlor or the father's casual statement that he always had time to admire "a man who escapes from jail."

Whether it means to be or not, I've no idea, but "In the Jaws of Life" is a very bleak comedy about people whose lives are at a dead end.

The successor series to Steve, The First, this bleak comedy was set 25 years after the original story.