The Fall and League of Gentlemen share a grotesque humour mixing comedy with menace

Evidence

“Jawbone” resembles nothing so much as a League of Gentlemen sketch, and the Fall have much more in common with the League of Gentlemen’s febrile carnival than with witless imitators such as Pavement. The co-existence of the laughable with that which is not laughable: a description that captures the essence of both the Fall and The League of Gentlemen’s grotesque humour. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1174

Categorization

• DEFINE: A crisp definition of grotesque humour as the co-existence of the laughable with the genuinely un-laughable.
• XREF: connects to: Mark E. Smith ran the Fall as an autocractic shaman-author purging spontaneity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1150; The Fall’s Mark E. Smith parallels black music’s world-building despots — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1162