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That's hilarious. They are making the health of your wife and daughter a profit center yet they act offended when you want to know the cost.

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Black comedy, indeed.

I'm assuming you're ESL, ... in Polish you also call it literaly "black comedy". The proper term you're looking for is "dark comedy". In the US "black comedies" nowadays is a term referring to for/by African Americans; it's a whole sub genre.

Can't speak for American English but "black comedy" is standard in British English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy_(disambiguation)

At best in the US is a ambitious term and accepted colloquial term refers to comedy by/for AA audiences. At least places I live in the US (MI, CA, NY).

Anyways English is a fun, dynamic, and at the same terrible language. But I'll take your word for British flavor of the English language.

For this, shall we just stick to the English definition? They invented the language. African American Comedy sound more accurate for the other one.

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