Difference between High Jinks and Gallows Humor

HIGH JINKS vs GALLOWS HUMOR: NOUN

Comedy that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a horrible, deathly, tragic, dramatic, perfectly hopeless situation.
Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation.

(noun plural) Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.

Bawdiness, Horseplay, Revelry, Merriment, Frivolity, Ribaldry, Naughtiness, Buffoonery, Slapstick, Debauchery, Silliness, Hilarity, Tomfoolery, Jinks, Hijinks

Buffoonery, Lightheartedness, Wry, Mirth, Laughter, Zaniness, Humorous, Irony, Absurdity, Jocularity, Silliness, Hilarity, Sarcasm, Levity, Humor

Bawdiness, Horseplay, Revelry, Merriment, Frivolity, Ribaldry, Naughtiness, Buffoonery, Slapstick, Debauchery, Silliness, Hilarity, Tomfoolery, Jinks, Hijinks

Facetiousness, Irreverence, Satire, Buffoonery, Wry, Mirth, Laughter, Humorous, Irony, Absurdity, Silliness, Hilarity, Sarcasm, Levity, Humor

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Some episodes have very ethnically Japanese plots, but the wacky adolescent high jinks and emotions have a universal appeal.
Wakko, Yakko and Dot are back to their old high jinks, which now include battling Russian.
Grow up together, several brothers and sisters, always so high jinks, what is this.".
Accessible place to go of events approach bombay high jinks at the unassuming jaya.
Sal, Joe, Q and Murr return for their eighth season of hysterical high jinks.
We'll be waiting and laughing at the ensuing high-jinks.
McIlroy and his friends took care that their high-tech high jinks did not put other people's programs and data at risk.
Opponents have denounced Mr. Caputos high jinks as crass.
All Pro footballer arrested in high speed high jinks.

He defies, outwits and escapes the Third Reich while walking around with a cyanide capsule and making gallows humor jokes!
He is both matter of fact on his grim situation, and occasionally funny in a gallows humor sort of way.
In their urgency and their gallows humor they are authentic voices of a generation that is panicky to succeed.
Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude.
We need to differentiate ironic, gallows humor by powerless victims from manipulative PR agency spin.
So I decided to spice things up with some good old fashioned gallows humor.
Still, call it gallows humor, but sometimes phishing emails can be objectively funny.
Gems of gallows humor reveal an unscathed human spirit.
We hear of men finding gallows humor overseas.
Hence, much gallows humor, irony, and sheer work.