Who was this new player in Beckett's bleakly comic, unwinnable game of life?

Old people are dying in Forever and Forever, the Florida trailer park for over-65's that is the setting of Harry Crews's bleakly comic new novel, "Celebration."

Otherwise Engaged is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray.

A young woman searches for the truth about her parentage amid the snow and ice of Lapland in this bleakly comic yet sad tale of a child's futile struggle to be loved.

Claudia Puig of USA Today writes, "A Serious Man is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film.

But nearly everyone in this bleakly comic drama has a tendency to pour out questions with the doggedness of a fretful 2-year-old.

"Professor Enigma," a bleakly comic portrait of psychological gamesmanship in a pastoral art colony, considers both the power and the powerlessness of the artist.

In 2000 she made her mark in the bleakly comic Human Remains, alongside Julia Davis and Rob Brydon, who was two years above her at school.

Somewhat impishly Mr. Thomas started the program by showing off his orchestra in three brash and bleakly comic short dances from Shostakovich's early ballet score "The Golden Age," played with incisive attack, exuberance and cool technical command.