Deathrow Gameshow
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Deathrow Gameshow is a 1987 black comedy
film in which condemned prisoners are given opportunities to be granted reprieves for their sentences by participating in a television game show.
Black comedy
A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...
film in which condemned prisoners are given opportunities to be granted reprieves for their sentences by participating in a television game show.