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laughing at the abyss before it gets the first word in.
means comedy that mines tragedy, death, and disaster for jokes instead of tears.
from traced to gallows humor, the jokes condemned prisoners made on the way to execution, formalized as a literary mode by andre breton in 1935 under humour noir.
breton coinedfrench surrealist named it humour noir in 1935
coping mechanismstudies link it to higher resilience under stress
battlefield staplesoldiers and surgeons famously rely on it