If it wants to prevent yet more black comedy from sober-suited bankers, it should make these rules a lot stricter.

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And in some ways, he says, the crude and outlandish images and behavior that typified the minstrel show are still evident in hip-hop and black comedy.

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It features more than 1, 400 images from horror, sci-fi, comedy, silent, sound, and black-and-white monster movies that run a gamut of categorization: Vampires, Werewolves, Atomic Mutations, Human Monsters, and Scary Older Ladies.

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My first full day at the Venice Film Festival begins with a screening of Burn After Reading, the new black comedy from the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.

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For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles-style self-obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send-up.

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This is grand entertainment, an ensemble comedy with an all-black cast (plus one beleaguered white barber) that's about, of all things, a day at a barbershop on the south side of Chicago.

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The director, Ahmad Shukry al-Akeedy, describes it as a black comedy.

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This very black comedy by the Coen brothers is set in the pale-white light of a rather blanched Washington, D.

NEWYORKER: Burn After Reading

Then, the company will court the female-skewing demographics of Showtime with the women's prison comedy Orange Is the New Black from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan.

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