Audience Expectations from Genre

We asked some people to answer the following survey to get a better understanding of audience expectations of black comedy.

1. What themes would you expect from a black comedy film?
2. What settings would you expect in a black comedy film?
3. What type of main character would you expect from a black comedy film?

First participant:
1. Dark themes such as death, crime murder e.t.c but juxtaposed with tongue in cheek humour - not necessarily laugh out loud.
2. Can be applied to any setting I would say.
3. Again could be anything but normally I would imagine one main character who the audience is aligned with, for example in 50/50.

Second participant: 
1, Crime, gruesome gory deaths and injuries, cults,mysteries
2. Quiet town/village/small town/countryside
3. Funny, ordinary person, mundane job

Third participant: 
1. Perhaps it would be about the protagonist's situation and emotions, mainly sad and pessimistic but humorous. So themes could be loss/death or the mundanities of everyday life.
2. A setting that may not seem to offer much humour but allows the characters to create it. Like a small/insignificant town or a funeral.
3. Someone unfulfilled with dull yet funny friends or maybe an outsider or loner, riddled with cynicism so a lot of humour would come from their sarcasm and pessimism.

Fourth participant: 
1. Inappropriate or dark subjects such as death, illness or corruption or very disturbing situations. But managed to make it humorous.
2. Based in a dull setting like a town or somewhere there is not much modernism.
3. Someone pessimistic and satire - won't have many aspirations in life. Or they could be very self centred, not caring what comes their way. Would make audience feel hate towards them or feel very sympathetic towards them.