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Sample idea: Black comedy/Dark humour
A good way to write black comedy is to make three lists.
In the first you list serious circumstances: deaths, accidents,
funerals, life-or-death surgery, murder trials, war, and so on.
In the second you list people who might behave unpredictably
or inappropriately: foreign tourists who stumble in to ask for
directions, drunkards, the village idiot, young children, animals,
the elderly and confused, an uncle who thinks he's a comedian
(but nobody else does), and so on.
In the third you list objects and events - catalysts - and things
that adhere to Murphy's Law (if it can go wrong it will go
wrong).
Taking one item from each list should lead to all sorts of comedy
ideas. The child (or the confused elderly person) might shout
out something at the worst possible moment; the coffin might
have to carried under a ladder and end up covered in paint; one
of the pall-bearers might not see the open manhole; a golf ball
might come flying through the window and hit someone on the head
just as he's about to do something vitally important; the dog
might see a cat in the garden and dive through the window - which
happens to be closed and two floors up.
You could go a stage further and take two of the best ideas
you've come up with and combine them into a single scene.
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