Original sentence: Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, et cetera – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner.Black humor is similar to sick humor, such as dead baby jokes.However, in sick humor most of the humor comes from shock and revulsion; black humor usually includes an element of irony, or even fatalism.Synonyms used to avoid racial overtones are dark comedy/humor and morbid comedy/humor
Edited sentence: "  There are others depending on the context.A better synonym without racial overtones is "morbid humor.Black comedy, also known as black humor (or to avoid confusion with ethnic entertainment, dark comedy/humor), is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, et cetera – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner.Black humor is sometimes confused with sick humor, such as dead baby jokes.In sick humor, most of the humor comes from shock and revulsion; black humor usually includes an element of irony, or even fatalism.Race is part of life and language, and cannot be ignored here