This chapter investigates the dynamic role of dark comedy within ecological literature, tracing how humor disrupts conventional environmental narratives and forges new paths for engagement and reflection. Rather than softening ecological crises, dark comedy magnifies the contradictions and absurdities of our relationship with the environment, inviting readers to recognize uncomfortable truths about climate change, resource depletion, and social injustice. By merging wit with gravitas, these narratives carve out a psychological space where readers can process anxiety, critique entrenched ideologies, and imagine alternatives to prevailing systems of exploitation and indifference. Through detailed case studies—including Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became, and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s Stay with Me—the chapter demonstrates how dark humor exposes the entanglement of personal, cultural, and planetary crises. Each text reveals humor as more than a coping mechanism: Kingsolver’s irony unravels anthropocentrism and rural-urban divides; Hamid’s absurdist scenarios highlight the human cost of climate migration; Jemisin’s speculative wit animates collective urban resilience; and Adébáyọ̀’s culturally rooted satire foregrounds gendered and familial dimensions of ecological collapse. The discussion further extends to non-Western perspectives, drawing on Eka Kurniawan’s Man Tiger and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book, to illustrate how humor adapts across cultural contexts, amplifying the voices of marginalized communities in the struggle for ecological and cultural survival. Throughout the chapter, close readings and critical analysis reveal that humor—when intricately woven into ecological literature—deepens both emotional resonance and reflective engagement. Rather than downplaying the urgency of ecological crisis, dark comedy fosters a climate where readers can grapple with unsettling realities without surrendering to despair or apathy. This chapter finally argues that humor functions not as a distraction, but as a vital literary strategy: it enables the reimagining of more resilient futures and prompts a renewed sense of ethical responsibility toward the entangled human and more-than-human worlds.