The novel will probably start as a drama and end up as a black comedy.
It was "a black comedy which offers insight into the British Asian experience", said The Guardian before the current furore blew up.
The director, Ahmad Shukry al-Akeedy, describes it as a black comedy.
"Like Charlie Chaplain, I'm representing a black comedy so it makes you smile and it gives you grief at the same time, " Diab said of his work.
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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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Brian De Palma has created a convoluted black comedy about an unhinged child psychologist, played by John Lithgow.
The tale is reminiscent of a scene from the grim black comedy film, Four Lions, and we'll never know what really happened.
The most popular video during the period was for The Year One, a stoner comedy about prehistoric times, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera.
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.
Black comedy is the preferred approach of Arnon Grunberg, a literary star at only 29.
If it wants to prevent yet more black comedy from sober-suited bankers, it should make these rules a lot stricter.
BET, treasured by some as the only channel devoted to black entertainment, is trashed by others for a lack of social conscience, a surfeit of crude comedy and a predilection for music videos rife with flashy cars, quivering cleavage and gyrating hips.
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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