While dark humor isn't a new concept, the name was only introduced in 1935 by the French surrealist Andre Breton. Dark humor jokes include themes that are usually considered taboo or hard to discuss and often include a touch of irony.
The most popular examples are Shakespeare’s writings, which often viewed tragic moments with a lighter side, and the famous works of British comedian Monty Python.
Our brains have to work quite hard to understand irony - sarcastic messages load our craniums with double the computing compared to usual forms of language.
So, having the sense of it basically means that your brain is more adept at solving creative problems. However, if you use it too much, other people might confuse your dark sense of humor for sociopathic behavior.
Mr. Lovenstein, aka J. L. Westover, draws hilarious dark humor comics with the most unexpected endings. Featuring everything from animals to funny tips to random situations - I’m sure they’ll help you get through this workday quicker. Check our collection of these dark-humor memes below.
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Yeah! Your beautiful just the way you are if you can't be accepted, you don't need them
Don't you mean... I didn't see that COWING........I'm sorry my life is just a deep dark hole stuffed with memes
Load More Replies...Well that's just great. Now I also gotta worry about serial-killing sea cows popping up outta nowhere to kill me? The Lizzy Bordens of Borden's milkers?? Bovine Jaws from which there is no escape??? (♪ ♫ daaa dum. daaa dum. dadumdadumdadum♪ ♫ EEEEEEK!!)
CROCKOGATOR: Toad, schmoad. Call yourself whatever you like; I'm calling you Snacky McSnackersons. Now git in mah bellah!!
In french we don't make difference between turtle and tortoise. we just call them turtle without distinction. (tortoise walk on land and turtle swim rigth?)
Load More Replies...This would seem just a bit more sophisticated if it was a frog getting upset about being called a toad, and a turtle getting upset about being called a tortoise; all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads, and all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
Bears aren't really sociopathic. They're just following their predator instinct. Employers, however...
Load More Replies...Does it work with a regular right-handed handshake too, or is using the left hand some sorta bear code?
It's NOT "Smokey the Bear". His full name is Smokey Bear...
Load More Replies...I hope no one ever invents one. I've always felt like the homicidal part of my mind needs to be kept well away from the public eye! XD
Weedy McWeedface is right; pansies are total, TOTAL, crybabies what with the wilting and the weatherphobic behaviors. They're pretty for five seconds -or- pretty only when you're NOT looking. Pansies are just a buncha pansies!!
Plant or Flowers are more beautiful in the wild without human care as it has the desire to thrive and grow strong but with human care, they have all the things they need to live so they take it easy!
After I read the first square, I expected Flowey to be in the next one, saying, "Don't worry, I'll share some LOVE with you" and have Friendliness Pellets around him
To be fair, it DOES take a lot to keep normal flowers alive. Dandelions, though, are pretty much invincible.
well, that's added to the list in head that plays all the time......thanks.
Load More Replies...Yellow light my old friend "Sorry I'm not your friend either..."
You don't have to follow your parents wishes, do what you want to do and be happy with the outcome even if it isn't exactly what you hoped for, it close enough.
I live in the tropics. Some of our moths are as if not more beautiful than butterflies.
At first I thought "Awww" then realised the taxi driver doesn't know where he lives so he put him in his own bed.
That's a great point. Maybe he doesn't intend any shenanigans.
Load More Replies...ZOMG. Mind scientifically blown to bits. So THIS is why we never see a happy snake; biologically they don't even know which end is up. Like Chris Rock as the Zebra in Madagascar when he too had a biological epiphany: "Am I white with black stripes or black with white stripes??" And my own biological epiphany: "Am I just "with" stupid as the infamous T-shirt declares? Or am I actually the stupid one in this duo???" Sadly, there is proof on a near daily basis that I am not just "with" stupid but am, in fact, ate-UP with the stupidness. A check of my Permanent Record shows I think and do more stupid before breakfast than most full-time professional morons do in a lifetime.
"What in the hell are we?" Well one thing's for sure. You don't have a leg to ssstand on...
What happened to Satan's beard? his face wasn't the only thing that melted off then...
It might melt your mouth off, but apparently it's so good that it's worth it.
Nvm, I obviously wasn't the only one to wonder. Didn't see other peeps asking the same thing XD
Load More Replies...How many times have so many of us gritted our teeth and stepped boldly out of our comfort zone, only to wish we'd stayed there.....it's safe there people!
I thought the mom was going to say she's going as her son because he's invisible to the people around him (no friends)
Wow really mom? Yet I still have a better sex life than you and "uncle" tony.
I've done this before. In middle school and freshman of high school. Made a number of upperclassmen friends this way.
Didn't work for me. Got arrested and convicted as a pedophile. Maybe because the kid's a minor.
Load More Replies...Uf, just realized many people try to do that to me... I'm pretty good kicking them far away too.
I REALLY like that face the guy is making when he's latching onto the other guy lol
But act like a crazy person and he'll more than likely to be more scared of you! Lol (true story)
Load More Replies...I guess the robber killed him, since it's the same guy who ate face-melting pizza.
Guys, please stop doing that "this comment is hidden, click here to view" It's getting really annoying. I'm serious. Please stop. There's no reason for being annoying like that. STOP! IT! PLEASE!
Wish I was this enthusiastic about death- well, atl-east I know I don’t have depression.
Something about his feet and his robe as he runs off so happily that just makes him adorably huggable to me.
Look at his happy little face as he goes off to get his guest a Pepsi!
Uphill! Both ways!! Farking kids with their fancy farking wheels and efficiencies and whatnot. It's just a fad. No way that whole "wheel" thing is gonna take off. No farking way.
And what's up with that "fire" thing? Gotta cook their meat now. Sissies. I used to bite mine off the dino's ads as he walked by.
Plato actually criticized the written word. The idea that old people have always criticized new technology isn’t too far from accurate.
hehehehe thrown in a bit bout walking a million miles to get to school every day, come hell or high water.
And ladies and gentleman, that's why galileo Galilei was killed......😂😂
He wasn't killed. He was merely convicted by the church for heresy
Load More Replies.......is anyone going to tell 'em that small genitals were seen as a sign of intelligence back in those days?
yeah... I know what you mean...Do you own a dog?, I think becoz I own a dog... I just accept, that there is probably ball-lick transferral sometimes.....just sayin....
Load More Replies...O. I saw the knife that said kindness and i thought that was the end.
Thats pure evil that dude don't even know what hit him
Load More Replies...Then BAM!!! the skeleton fell to the floor in a heap... the girl later got arrested.........
His lifetime goal was finally complete. He can live freely now as a dinosaur spirit.
S**t. If I only had treated my sims better. I am going to hell. But I dont think I am the only simsabuser
So taking out the toilets and the pool ladders is going to get held against me? Damn! Literally!
Load More Replies...Uh oh... I'm doomed... can't even count how many virtual game characters I've... deleted.
Well guess I'll see you there. (Skyrim and GTA V) I killed a lot of people (level 90 on Skyrim)
Load More Replies...Oh my god, is there anyone in the universe you didn't throw the baby penguin off the cliff!? ahahaha
I forgot abt my animal crossing, and i had a list on real/fake crazy redd paintings and let my brother but a fake Wistful Painting Hahahahahahahahahahahahahelpmehahahahaha
That sucks. What country are you from? Corporations in the USA will institute this policy as soon as they are able.
Load More Replies..."WAITER! THERES A SAD MAN IN MY SOUP!" 2 pages later,| drinks the whole sad man
Jason: POV: YES NO MORE WORK TO DO! GO DO IT REAPER! imma just stand here looking calm :>
I'm concerned. When exactly did a globe chop off your finger? lol
Load More Replies...And there is a whole bed to nap. I can see the world in my dream so go to bad take a nap and dreaming.. lol :D
(finger lands in the middle of the Pacific) Well, I said what I said and I meant what I meant. No turning back.
I get this at Xmas time I wrap all my presents for people to match my decorations then I'm sad when I have to give them away and get assorted colours and patterns that don't coordinate with my tree. I think I may have issues!!
When I was like 5 or 6 I wrapped a present for my mom for her birthday and she was like "who wrapped this?" My grandma said I did it and she almost didn't wanna open it it was wrapped so perfectly to her
never happened to me. they are going to rip that paper anyway, why to bother..
My family has always had a tradition of opening packages carefully and reusing the wrapping paper. We literally have 100 year old wrapping paper still in the boxes. It gets whittled down until it’s on little things in the stockings. Literally stuff my great grandmother used to wrap things in; actually it would be my great great grandmother. It’s a neat way to share family history. The habit came in handy years later, when my ex-boyfriend was an artist, and made beautifully wrapped presents for birthdays and Christmas.
It's been shown that people actually are happier with mediocre gifts wrapped badly than with those same gifts wrapped nicely, because the nice wrapping sets up the expectation that the gift is really nice
I suck at wrapping, so you know, I'm just like yes. Rip it off. It look sucky anyways.
I’ve also met some very nice people though. They were so wholesome I literally cried.
Load More Replies...i dont even need to go on the internet for someone to say that to me.
Never kill ur self u are amazing and everyone loves u
Load More Replies...I want to know the exact sequence of sins I have to commit to come back as a cat.
I am almost certain you have to live a good life to have a change at coming back as a cat. At least I read that humans was about the lowest of lifeforms.
Load More Replies...Same thing happened but with my dog Ramble but.........she didn't wake up 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
It would end better if 'W' have questioned "We're not know now?" And then 'N' kicks 'W' yelling "NO"
Kids are carefree and have absolutely no responsibilities. Ignorance truly is bliss.
Load More Replies...you just raise your right hand then raise your left hand, put on a fake smile and smack them together :) I'm dieing inside help :D
They always say that mans best friend is his dog, but who is the dog's best friend?
Lol i was gonna come in here to be mad at the apparent transphobia of the first two panels, but now I rather like it!
and this is why you don't order discounted mail order brides from thailand... unless you're into that kind of thing
Boy, I'm sure the comments on this one will be nothing but calm and accepting.
They expect us to be a literal carbon copy of Matilda
Load More Replies...I thought the bird in the first image was a creature with a giant eyeball haha
i don't get how that always happens to kids in movies etc. never had such mishap through my whole childhood :O
Oh I did, once, and fortunately they gave me another scoop for free :) it nearly happened to me again this summer (a good 20 years later lol) because the ice cream person put two scoops basically balancing on top of the cone, rather than pushing them into it :/ as a result, I had to give more than I'd planned to my dog!
Load More Replies...Dogs usually a neighbors in their own yard. My dog is the exception. She's all like "*gasp* a piece of dust! Time to deafen my hoomans with barks"
Load More Replies...You get three wishes with the rule that you can’t wish for more wishes: the first wish can be that the rules are changed, second wish? More wishes 😎
I wish that I get HIS wish, and then wish a million wishes. Like a pro 😎
Oof; they would have to come up with a LOT of entirely new crimes against humanity in order to define what I'd do immediately after.
Lol.... I thought he was going to say she got it and walk away sadly
Oh, I am so funny with my English language and its approximately 95 % of homophones. I am so clever when I manage to come up with a pun! Yay!
But srsly wut do shy guys look like under the mask. or is dat their face? my head huuuurrrrrtttttssssssssss...... (i over think to much XD)
It's not a mask - see panel 4. But I still don't get it...
Load More Replies...Creepy part is Shy guy in actuality doesn't have any face; just the mask.
I hate that term, but agree with the sentiment. Also, I didn't realize the word had been around that long. Our descent as a species may be slower than it seems
Load More Replies...If I had ice creame whenever I wanted, I couldn't afford booze whenever I wanted :/ #adultchoices
You’ve heard of police brutality but have you heard of brutality to police.
I don't know about you guys but if it were me, I'd definitely go with him. I love burgers and maybe I'll even make a friend.
in the third box are they running or is that some kind of jogging/walking
Oh man, so many bottles full of my emotions filling up the landfills...😩😭
I assume the 2 people that downvoted are flat-earthers.
Load More Replies...I was expecting it zooming out to reveal a flashback while boning.
I wonder why her eyes go from “I’m so hypnotized/high agggghhh!!” To “what the actual F***K GRANNY”
I always wonder what is so hard in just using normal ingredients?! Hydrogenated palm oil, corn syrup, blah blah...We just want cookies, people!
Could it perhaps be cheaper than the ingredients we use when baking at home, so as to give more money to owners of cookie factories.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of my quest to find cookies without palm-oil. It is nearly impossible, yet I have never seen a recipe for cookies that calls for palm-oil. They all say butter!
Exactly what I was going to comment!!! Maybe we're related ;p
Load More Replies.... I'm happy . I'm taken . Graduating in two years . Doesn't work .Lives with grandparents . I'm 15 now .lol
I'm happy. I'm single. Still live with dad. Graduating in, like, a month. A furry. 18. Stablehand.
Load More Replies...My dad still check up on me if I'm still haven't gone to work by 8 AM.
In some 20 years you will be happy if that is still the case.
Load More Replies...wait... death has a death, I thought that death was already dead (sorry if I made anyone's head hurt by this comment)
But he gets to f**k her for his whole life, though. Maybe it was a good trade off? Also, this implies that the guy was tryna commit cannibalism.
can somebody please explain to me.. what does pooping have to do with dying
You mean poisonous? Venomous = if it bites you. Poisonous = If you bite it.
Load More Replies...No but he is ready to look away if you hand him an acorn
Load More Replies...Plot twist. Those are in fact not venomous, but poisonous. A food item cannot be venomous, for it is impossible for an inanimate object to inject poison into you without force.
This comic is really deep. Because, yeh, life can be an a*****e sometimes but not always. Sometimes good thing happen, we just don't notice because we are scare of the bad things that may or may not happen.
So the trick to live a happy life is noticing the good things and stop worrying about bad things until they happen.
Load More Replies...The trick is he truthfully doesn't pull one this time. Dude will NEVER be able to trust it and always assume Life is saving his dreams and aspirations for some big magnum opus.
The worst trick is mostly the fact the boy will be expecting again and again... This is at the end the most cruel trick Life can do to him!
so damn true i hate human beings.....they don't god damn care about the nature and the animals that are rare
Plot twist: the rino is the last of its kind also and eats the human
Don't ya love it when cute species (pandas, etc.) are protected from extinction, and resources are taken away from less attractive (but possibly more environmentally important) ones? I.... yeah, I'm kind of chill with it too..... pandas....
Yeah, you are right! People care only about the beautiful or cute animals. What about the endangered insects, slugs or deep water animals? They are such interesting, enigmatic creatures... Yet, everyone ask me why the bugs shouldn`t be killed. People can be absolute idiots, noone has asked me why people exsist though we are totally useless.
Load More Replies...I EAT PERFECTION EVERY OTHER NIGHT?! Well yeah, actually. I eat Digiornos pizza lol
Thanks... Now that's all I'll be thinking about while drinking my coffee every morning.
Coincidence? https://oldstersview.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/you-cant-fix-stupid/
My grandpa still puts his ball cap back like that when we play ping pong
I would actually love that. We can go grocery shopping together!
Load More Replies...nah bro just get whatever you want and scan it at the store, say you bought it, give yourself a infinity% discount, and you get it for free. buy everything in the store and than sell it back for a lot of money. repeat. BUY the store. sell the things in the store. steal from other stores and sell them at yours. infinite money.
I know right? Like, why are women tricking us into friendship so they can inject venom into our bloodstream? Society is messed up
Load More Replies...At least the eagle won't get lead poisoning from eating his liver. My mother once found a sick eagle in a field and notified animal rescue services. Turns out, birds of prey often accumulate loads of lead from eating prey that has been fired at with a shotgun. Since they can't get rid of it, they get weaker over time and die of it.
If you're a guy it's even worse, and if you have naturally thick black hair like I do, well just go f**k yourself I guess? It's horrifying and I want to opt out thank you very much.
dry your hair in the shower LMAO XD - but tbh i suppose you could brush your teeth in the shower...
I do brush my teeth in the shower, it's the easiest way for me to do them. I've also eaten a couple of times in the shower, I remember eating a tub of melon once haha.
Load More Replies...2 of those things will probably get you killed by electricity.
Oh I think people still do all the same stuff as they did before. Only now they post video/pics of themselves doing it!
Why oppress women on there! Dogs get more right then my own body god damnit
It's so much better now, young couples going into credit card debt because they are “foodies” and eat 7+ restaurant meals every week. #bad credit scores
It shows how primitive, useless, and pointless such behavior is
Load More Replies...Actually really sad . . . lots of innocent women were put to death for "witchcraft"
*Snort*.... Hang the "Happy Corpse" from the "Happy Tree"
Load More Replies...The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. In this case you paint them instead.
"'If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!' Sun Tzu said that! And I think he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor!"
He can still put on pants. The day is not over yet. One moment should not be the epitome of the whole day.
I wish we could do that in real life. I would've been killed by my own sister but anyways.
Actually, Socrates was quite an ardent opponent of the sophists (considered the "founding fathers" of relativism). His wheelhouse was philosophy, not physics. DON'T EXECUTE MEH PLZ. XD
Socrates was actually known as the mad gadfly, asking people for the meaning to terms that people thought they knew but didn’t
Actually, both of them are stupid: The boy because he doesn´t understand that we don´t "come from" monkeys, but we have common relatives with them. And the girl for obvious reasons...
Load More Replies...my little pony... skinny and boney tripped on a wire, fell into fire my little pony is dead. Yay!
Load More Replies...my little pony skinny and bonyyyy made of plastic easier to smasharonyy
My horse has a face that's longer than his neck. He'd probably give a lot to have this guy's face.
“You’re going to have to buy the cookies you ruined. That’ll be $5.00.”
Just keep drawing stick figures so horrifically bad that they look like a really good anything else.
If this happens just do this: draw a circle body and... oops thats a hamburger
The headline though . . . "president solves everything. Holy f*****g s**t."
There’s an extra panel not shown where people complain that everything’s boring.
My theory is the new guy will live forever until someone takes the hat off.
Load More Replies...You can't just take someone's hat like that! Also, I show you a cool hat- Rainbow-ha...b9cdd.jpeg
this was part of an internet wide collaboration, over 100 comics did the same joke on 1st april
I was wondering why I could find this comic on every comic strip
Load More Replies...sharks don't sleep. they'll die if they stop swimming. n n'
Load More Replies...Sharks can't sleep or else they die. Literally. This is a true fact, look it up. *I DARE YOU*
They can sleep they just have to keep moving. Like sleepwalking in humans
Load More Replies...Yes they do, but it's a different state than humans. Except for nurse sharks. They just settle on the bottom and sleep for hours, motionless...
Load More Replies...And that's why you should have to pass a test before you can procreate. Brutal. Poor kid.
2 years? It still looks like shịt. Please don't start another one. Maybe you're good at something else?
Load More Replies...Remember that when you make your girlfriend swallow...
Load More Replies...To all you who have made it this far, give me a like! We'll count how many make it!!
They are downvotes, not dislikes. They can get you banned! Please only use them sparingly
Load More Replies...Hey, At least she is congratulating you guys! You can't even say thanks?
Load More Replies...Some people naturally lose the pigment in their hair when it gets to a certain length.
That is absolutely NOT true. Length has nothing to do with it...
Load More Replies...i didn't know it was possible to drown in coffee. rip office worker. death by coffee.
Ain't it sad that most people can only bond with others through complaining? :')
Isn’t it also sad that nobody ever gives advice for those problems.
Load More Replies...And for the last comic... You put one that's already been used... Thanks.
If anything it proves the original point of the article
Load More Replies...If you made it this far, to the end, upvote this comment to see how many made it!
Don’t get why you are downvoted, it is just like a poll… Some people just wanna watch the world burn, alas!
Load More Replies...I can't believe there are other people made it to the end... You say 10+ comics and put 105?! Wtf...
No wonder it's so low... It's the same comic in a different format.
Now I have way too many saved comics on my phone that I will spam to all of my friends.
I really like the fact that its called "10+", it has 105 pictures...
I got to the last one...and I think I was the only one to because there were no likes on the last, maybe 25~30 comic strips...forever alone...
Not true! There were -2 upvotes on the last one. So that means that even if you downvoted the last one, there was still at least one person who also downvoted it.
Load More Replies...I want more, Simply put that way. I need infinite dark humour comics now. AND I WILL PAY FOR INFINITE DARK HUMOR! Actually, why don't I ask just some generative AI to do it. Hmm... (Feel free to send this to downvote hell)
Four laughs out of the entire post - you could have left the other 100 out!!
I really like the fact that its called "10+", it has 105 pictures...
I got to the last one...and I think I was the only one to because there were no likes on the last, maybe 25~30 comic strips...forever alone...
Not true! There were -2 upvotes on the last one. So that means that even if you downvoted the last one, there was still at least one person who also downvoted it.
Load More Replies...I want more, Simply put that way. I need infinite dark humour comics now. AND I WILL PAY FOR INFINITE DARK HUMOR! Actually, why don't I ask just some generative AI to do it. Hmm... (Feel free to send this to downvote hell)
Four laughs out of the entire post - you could have left the other 100 out!!
