Julia Davis - the master of dark comedy (feat. Human Remains / Lizzie & Sarah)

As desensitized as I am, there's one comedy writer who can still put me at unease - Julia Davis. Today, I want to talk about two of her earlier, somewhat lesser known works.
Vice interview with Davis
www.vice.com/en/article/7bdgz...
DVD commentary of Human Remains
• Video
Music
0:00 - Garage, Gran Turismo 6 soundtrack
1:04 - Glass Substrate, Yasuhisa Inoue, GT Sport soundtrack
3:30 - Royal Palaca Gavotte (Night), Dragon Quest 8 soundtrack
4:45 - Cecile, Seigen Tokuzawa, Gran Turismo 5 soundtrack
7:00 - Head Chef Someday, Cook Serve Delicious 2 soundtrack

[@houtekieta]

Everything Julia Davis does, I will watch over and over again. She makes me laugh like nothing else.

[@BlockchainTravel]

Thought I had seen most of Julia Davis' stuff but I had never heard of Lizzie and Sarah before, I just watched it now, it's insane haha.

[@Camille_Anderson]

Nighty Night is forever my ultimate dark comedy, its my favourite tv show of all time. Second is Human Remains. Julia can do no wrong in my eyes!! genius woman!

[@swooningtree]

Justice for Lizzie & Sarah 😭 thank you for talking about it

[@ia4049]

this was great! im so excited to watch these shows now, thanks for the video :)

[@CowardEdd]

Thank you - hope you enjoy!

[@Anygodwilldo]

Also check out People Like Us (Julia Davis was in one episode)

[@lll-bm1cp]

I love her!! also btw does anyone here know where I can watch human remains? Ive been trying to find it for years😭 (im not in the uk)

[@CowardEdd]

They're all on Dailymotion. Enjoy!

[@red_velvetcake1759]

My two favourite types of comedy are surrealist humour and dark humour - but I don't find depicting domestic abuse to be funny dark comedy - it's too real to be funny. At some point it just becomes a depiction rather than humour.

[@CowardEdd]

Can understand that. In the Vice article linked in the description, Davis herself recalls a fan saying something similar regarding Lizzie and Sarah:
"But I remember meeting this guy who said he liked it, but he said: 'it's basically a study in domestic violence, isn't it?' I thought - Oh God, maybe it is"
Personally, I did find some parts - the suffocation scenes in particular - simply too upsetting to find funny.