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{{quote|''I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral.
''Can't understand what I mean? You soon will.''
|'''[[Barenaked Ladies]]''', "One Week"}}
This trope summarizes all the [[Fee Fi Faux Pas|wacky hijinks]] that can commonly occur at a [[Sitcom]] funeral. It's the comedic flipside of the serious [[Due to the Dead]].
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Expect plenty of [[Black Comedy]] to be involved.
Or maybe the characters will play an [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]. This is the generally the opposite of the heartwrenching [[Meaningful Funeral]], but there can be [[Gallows Humor|some]] [[To Absent Friends|overlap]]. Compare [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]] or [[Speak Ill of the Dead]], where the non-dead characters may indulge in this. Compare [[Grave Humor]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the filler "Laughing Shino" arc of ''[[Naruto]]'', the title character accompanies Shino to act as the representative for a man whose father has just died. If he / his representative laughs at the funeral, he loses his inheritance, and he knows his relatives will do everything in their power to make this happen. [[The Stoic|Shino]] is the obvious choice for a stand-in, but he's poisoned by a drug that causes him to laugh uncontrollably en route. Naruto has to take his place, and has a much harder time trying to ignore the antics of everyone else at the funeral. {{spoiler|However, the funeral wasn't real, and the supposedly dead guy just wanted people to lighten up by making them make others laugh.}}
▲== Comic Books ==
* In one issue of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', Mystique has to scatter the ashes of Destiny, her friend and [[Hide Your Lesbians|implied]] romantic partner. While most of the issue is emotional and introspective, at the end, Mystique declares that Destiny and her powers of future sight will finally be out of her hair forever, and tosses the ashes off a ship at the time/place specified in Destiny's will -- [http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?p=11721977 at which point, the wind picks up and blows them right back into her face. She collapses in helpless laughter.]
** Oddly enough, given the actual tenor of their relationship, [[It Makes Sense in Context|it's heartwarming in context]].
* In a ''[[Hellblazer]]'' flashback scene where Constantine is presumed dead, the, er, unconventional clergyman Rick the Vic begins his eulogy with the biblical quote, "There is no...plan that can succeed against the Lord." He then [[Refuge in Audacity|casually tosses his Bible over his shoulder]] and says, "Tell that to John Constantine."
* Occurs offscreen in an issue of [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]]'', where [[The Joker]] mentions that he rigged the coffins of some victims of the [[Legion of Doom|Injustice Gang]] to spring their contents into the air during the funeral. Luthor [[Even Evil Has Standards|was not amused]].
* In the ''[[Deadpool]]'' issue ''Funeral for a Freak'', Deadpool, who had died in the previous issue when he turned against the agency he had been working for, was able to attend his own funeral. What made this issue unique was that the entire issue was "Silent", with no dialogue. Deadpool plays various gags on the mourners as a ghost, such as getting a blind
* Alison Bechtel (of ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'') has one book which renames funeral home to "Fun Home" as the title.
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* ''[[The Comedy Of Terrors]]'' embodies this trope. such instances include: [[Vincent Price]] and [[Peter Lorre]] secretly recycling their only coffin by ''dumping the body into the grave'' sped up and set to piano music, or Joyce Jameson [[Funny Moments|caterwalling "he is not dead but sleepeth"]] (and the guest of honor {{spoiler|isn't really dead}}), her singing so bad that even the cat turns away in disgust.
* This trope is also seen in the movie ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'', in which a grieving widow watches her dead husband's funeral turn into a "celebrity roast", and she is ultimately compelled to give a classic roast-style speech (the deceased's "rebuttal") as her eulogy.
** This
* ''[[Clerks]]'' had a similar sketch, though in the original movie it was [[Second Hand Storytelling|unseen]]. It was later animated in the ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' style, and rather hilarious.
* In ''[[Scary Movie]] 3'' George mistakenly believe "wake" to mean the deceased is alive again and takes her out of the coffin as such. Mahalik came in later to help his friend when people started attacking George for disturbing the body.
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'''Cindy''': George, it's a wake.
'''George''': She's alive! Sue, your teacher's alive!
'''Cindy''': No George, she's dead!
'''George''': No Brenda! Don't die on me! ''(starts doing CPR)'' }}
* In an opening scene of ''[[Mousehunt (film)|Mousehunt]]'', the two protagonists drop ''their father's casket''. It proceeds to slide down the church stairs and bounce their father's body into the air and down an open sewer hole.
* The entirety of the film ''[[Death at a Funeral]]''. As the name would imply.
** Hijinks include: [[Firefly (TV series)|Alan]] [[Dollhouse|Tudyk]]'s character gets high on acid because he and his girlfriend thought it was Valium {{spoiler|and eventually ends up wandering around naked on the roof}}, a dwarf {{spoiler|crashes the funeral to blackmail the family because he was the closeted patriarch's lover (and characters freak out over the pictures)}}, and a crabby, handicapped old man curses at every chance he gets.
*** And then said old man {{spoiler|shits on his bathroom assistant's hand when he sat on it. And he meant to do it.}}
* When the Dude and Walter go to scatter {{spoiler|Donny}}'s ashes in the ocean in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'', after a fairly-touching - although full of unnecessary references to [[The Vietnam War]] - speech from Walter, he scatters the ashes, but the wind is blowing the wrong way, and the Dude ends up covered. Also a subversion, in that immediately after the humorous moment the Dude explodes with rage, calls Walter out for turning the occasion into "a fuckin' travesty" and breaks down, thus turning a slapstick moment into a [[Tear Jerker]] [[Mood Whiplash|almost instantly]].
* ''[[Blues Brothers]] 2000'' involved Elwood trying to put the band back together, and finding Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin working as an undertaker. Elwood and Mack prompt a chase through a graveyard as they disrupt a Russian Mafia funeral as part of their blackmailing Mr. Fabulous into rejoining the band. The graveyard is destroyed by the ensuing gunfire, when everyone at the funeral whips out AK-47s.
** And by 'disrupt', you mean 'talk loud how they're going to rob the valuables off the corpse and sell his penis to med school as soon as the burial is over'.
* In ''Revenge of [[The Pink Panther]]'', most of the world believes that Chief Inspector Clouseau has been killed, including his old supervisor Dreyfus, who had been committed to an asylum because of his murderous hatred for Clouseau. He recovers his sanity and his position upon Clouseau's death, and is asked to eulogize him, to which he ineffectively protests. Dreyfus, holding back his tears, delivers a moving
* In [[Mel Brooks]]'s film ''[[Life Stinks]]'', {{spoiler|Sailor}} ends up dying. His ashes are scattered ... but the wind blows it back at the mourners. They say goodbye as they dust the ashes off themselves.
** According to Mel Brooks, this was actually based on true events. One of the film's writers was scattering the ashes of his deceased father and the wind blew the ashes back to the crowd. Despite the circumstances, it was felt that the event was too good not to include in the script and it ended up in the final film.
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* In ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', some dead mobster's body was filled with toxic gas, to kill the mob bosses attending the funeral. Not really funny ''per se'', but the stuff they did to prevent the hit certainly counts.
* ''[[Toys (film)|Toys]]''. Appropriately, the deceased (a saint-like toy mogul) seems to be in on the fun.
* One of the advertisers for the station in ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' is one of these outfits.
* French black comedy ''Louise Michel'' starts with such a funny funeral, in a scene apparently unrelated to the rest of the film (it's supposed to be the funeral of the last Communist, according to the filmmakers...) It's almost silent comedy: the undertaker struggles to get the coffin into the furnace while the family stare at him mournfully and ''The Internationale'' plays, he can't get the furnace to start and eventually has to ask the family for a light.
* The western spoof ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' begins with a group of pioneers burying a man named Millard Frymore who joined their travelling party for two days before dropping dead of some unknown disease. Then someone notices gold in Millard's grave, leading to an all-out brawl.
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* In the Dracula parody ''[[Love at First Bite]]'', Drac's coffin accidentally gets switched with that of a deceased black man. The resulting funeral is memorable.
* In the rock-and-roll comedy ''[[Get Crazy]]'', we're introduced to a B.B. King-style blues legend eulogizing a fellow blues man at his funeral in a way that makes the clergyman uncomfortable. Nearly everyone in attendance is a blind blues man, one of whom walks into an open grave.
* In ''[[Man on the Moon]]'', after [[Andy Kaufman]] (played by [[Jim Carrey]]) found a bit of [[Gallows Humor]] in a fake treatment for his cancer, it cuts to his funeral... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKZ1cN_N50 where he'd, apparently, requested a sing-a-long be performed] by those in attendance. A very weird mix of [[Tear Jerker]] and
* S.O.B. has the Viking funeral scene at the end. A very fitting send off to {{spoiler|Felix}}.
* ''[[Men with Brooms]]'' has a brief scene, less than thirty seconds long, of the private funeral service for Coach Foley, by way of introducing Gary Bucyk, a funeral director. What should be [[A Simple Plan|a simple cremation]] service goes awry when:
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* The end of ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' shows Thor and the other Asgardians having a huge feast, and in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' Thor tells an actually-very-much-alive Loki that they mourned him. At least one person outside the film tried to claim Thor was a [[Hypocrite]] because of this, but this was in fact how the Norse honored someone's death, making this a severe case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] (see below under [[Real Life]]).
▲== Literature ==
* In Janet Evanovich's ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' series, at least once per book on average, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur wreaks havoc at the local funeral home (she gets quite aggravated by closed caskets, and finds ways to get that lid open). In several instances, either Stephanie or Grandma obtains important information as a result of the funeral home hijinks. They've also burned the place down on one memorable occasion (sort-of accident: Grandma was trying to shoot the baddies, who were planning to kill her and Stephanie. Grandma was apparently not aware those crates stacked against the wall contained ammunition, explosives, etc.).
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''Men at Arms'', members of the City Watch witness the funeral of a clown, that deteriorates to slapstick. Ritualistic, macabre slapstick devoid of any sense of humor or joy, the defining traits of Discworld clowns. Thoroughly subverts this trope, with a running gag no less.
** Wizards and witches know when they're expected to die of natural causes, and like to hold "going-away" parties for those who are soon to kick the bucket (like Windle Poons in ''[[
* In ''Anansi Boys'', Charlie gives an eulogy for his father and then realizes he's at the wrong funeral.
** Anansi would have loved that.
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* ''[[Cold Sassy Tree]]'': Rucker Blakeslee leaves a note in his will saying that he hates how solemn funerals are, and he wants a party "like them Irishmen have." Despite the objections of several family members, he gets his posthumous party (no doubt partially motivated by the fact that anyone who refuses to follow his wishes will be cut out of his will).
* ''The Commissar'' by [[Sven Hassel]]. The funeral of Gregor's unnamed [[General Ripper]] superior, whom he served as batman, is more accurately described as "a battle course with all the trimmings." Highlights include the coffin being dropped while carried up a muddy hill in the rain and running down a load of Nazi bigwigs, and the pallbearers being assigned to the Russian front as a result. Gregor mentions that the event was only beaten by the time a bridge collapsed while the funeral party was crossing it, and the coffin went floating into the harbour where it was torpedoed by a U-Boat in the belief that the coffin was some sort of British secret weapon.
* [[Fazil Iskander]] has a story called [https://web.archive.org/web/20110818010733/http://www.booksfreeonline.com/stories_part1/FISKANDER/stories_engl010.html Old Crooked Arm], about a guy famous for his jokes. He had a friendly competition with his neighbor about who's the best horseman. So, on his deathbed he admitted the neighbor was better, and asked him to leap over his coffin on his horse three times before it's closed. The funeral showed everyone who was the best horseman... after the horse refused to jump.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Murdock]] orchestrates Hannibal's fake funeral in ''[[The A-Team]]'' episode, "The Big Squeeze". He stops Face and B.A. at the door and demands to know if they are "friends of the bride, or the groom?" Then he gives a eulogy about how Hannibal (rather, the restaurant owner he was masquerading as) "graced our lives like an avocado salad." He ''then'' takes things [[Up to Eleven]] by playing a ''very'' melancholy version of ''Take Me Out to the Ballgame'' on the organ!
** It's official. When I die, I want Murdock to be in charge of my funeral.
* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'': The classic "funeral" episode, and widely hailed as the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funniest sitcom episode]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|ever]]'', is "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust." Aired early in the show's sixth season, Chuckles, the host of WJM-TV's children's show, is killed during a freak incident at a circus parade; an elephant goes wild and during the rampage,
* ''[[Family Ties]]'': The third season episode "Auntie Up" features Mallory's favorite aunt, Trudy Harris, dying of a heart attack in the living room. Mallory is deeply saddened, but the family is preoccupied with a garage sale at the house (for Alex's fraternity); a wake is held at the Keatons on the same day as the garage sale, and naturally hilarity ensues. Eventually, everyone is able to take Mallory seriously when she speaks up at the funeral and delivers an emotional eulogy.
* ''[[The Tonight Show]]'': During the early 1980s, Johnny Carson and the show's comedy troupe did a parody of the E.F. Hutton commercials (tagline: "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen"). The parody ad was set at a funeral visitation, where a young stockbroker is talking with one of the deceased's brothers; as soon as the stockbroker says "E.F. Hutton," all conversation and mourning immediately stops and everyone turns their attention to the gent ... including the deceased guy (Carson), who sits up in his casket to hear what the guy has to say!
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': The fifth-season, two-part episode "Fonzie's Funeral" had the Cunninghams stage a fake funeral for Fonzie to put him into protection from a mob whose leader, The Candyman, is wanted for robbery, money laundering, extortion, and counterfeiting (after Fonzie had gone to the police with $100 bills found in a hearse he was repairing). At Fonzie's "funeral" visitation, series' regulars and memorable guests saying their "farewells," and "Fonzie's mother" (Fonzie in drag) comforts the survivors. (The "funeral" allows the Cunninghams time to hatch a plan to catch The Candyman and his goons.)
* On ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' Dick is asked to eulogize a hated professor. Oddly enough, because Dr. Hamlin knew everyone hated him, he asked Dick because he was the only one who would say it to his face. He didn't want a eulogy that wasn't about him. Inverted somewhat in that Dick's eulogy is actually very moving to the audience because he simply relates the bare facts.
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** While the humans present were astonished at Dick's beautiful prose, his fellow aliens mocked the triteness, asking why he didn't just phone it in.
* On ''[[News Radio]]'' Dave eulogizes an obscure employee he knows nothing about. And who turns out to have been an asshole. And a Klan member. Bill McNeil's funeral episode falls under this as well, seeing as most of the episode is about Matthew talking nonsense about hidden messages about Raven's, wondering what the contents of Catherine's private message was, and general lighthearted treatment of it, save from a downer moment or two.
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* In ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' episode "The 5 Wood", Larry tries to retrieve his golf club from the casket. In the episode "The Special Section", he tries to have his mother moved to a Jewish cemetery despite her being refused a burial.
* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'': Dharma climbs into Greg's grandmother's casket to get her ring.
* An episode of ''[[Two and
** Another had Charlie having an [[Imagine Spot]] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuhOS3UduY his funeral]. It includes open bar, [[James Earl Jones]] reading his eulogy, and another (sarcastic) eulogy by Alan.
** Charlie's actual funeral in the first episode of season 9. Alan's eulogy was interrupted by Charlie's ex-girlfriends insulting the deceased, and Evelyn used the occasion to remind everyone that Charlie's house is up for sale.
*** "I didn't come all this way to spit on a closed casket!"
* On ''[[Monk]]'''s [[Pilot]] episode, Monk drops his keys into the casket from a balcony seat, and proceeds to attempt to fetch them by lowering a paper-clip on a string into the casket.
* On ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', Murphy must eulogize a rival with whom she exchanged pranks.
** In a separate episode, she's asked to eulogize a crew member who apparently adored her, but whom she can't remember a thing about. (The crew member is later proven to be fictitious; the other characters were trying to make a point about her treating the crew as if they were invisible.)
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* One episode of [[Gene Wilder]]'s short lived sitcom "[[wikipedia:Something Wilder|Something Wilder]]" had him returning to a wake twice (for a total of three visits) due to something involving the tie of the deceased as well. I don't remember much about that show, and I was probably the only person who watched it.
* In ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', the titular character is forcibly taken to his father's funeral, and has to deliver the eulogy. (He hated his father and didn't want to go.) He uses this as a chance to get a piece of his father's skin to subject to a DNA test, which confirms his long-standing suspicion that the man was not his biological father. He also comments on his father's weak qualities in the eulogy, and says that 'if he was a better father, maybe I'd have been a better son'.
** By the end of the speech, though, it's touched on touching. House says, essentially, that the person he
** Wilson also ups the wackiness factor by breaking a stained glass window at the funeral home, goaded by House, of course.
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* On a later ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', the brothers lose the body they were flying in for a funeral, so Joe takes its place in the coffin.
* An episode of ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' has Lisa going to a funeral for a woman she didn't like. Just before she goes, she chips a tooth, goes to a slightly inattentive dentist, and enters the service doped up on laughing gas. [[Hilarity Ensues]] and the service ends with Lisa leading the guests in a round of an upbeat hymn while Ray cowers with embarrassment. (Note that this is technically not possible, as laughing gas's effect ends within minutes of ceasing intake.)
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' did something right with this one; Will's yelling at his uncle's Jerkass [[The Rival|political rival]] leads him to have a heart attack. When his funeral comes around, all the mourners turn out to hate him (for very good reasons, mind you: for example, one of them was a Mexican gardener whom the rival hired to tend his garden and when it was time to pay, ''called Immigration'') and most of them have showed up to make sure he is actually dead.
* Ponce's funeral in his premiere episode of ''[[Clone High]]'' is played entirely for laughs, with his best friend JFK picking him up out of the coffin and punching him because he insists he's not really dead, and then jumping into the coffin next to him and closing the lid (only to pop out seconds later and state "I was in a coffin with a dead guy!" and run off screaming).
* One episode of ''[[Night Court]]'' featured a case where a funeral director decided he would in his words "[[Trope Namer|put the fun back in funeral]]" including a bumper sticker on the casket saying "I'd rather be breathing".
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* In ''[[Coupling]]'', the gang spend most of Jane's aunt's funeral reception desperately trying to stay clear of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKjkPgVQcE Giggle Loop]. This is [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jeff's]] name for the situation in which someone trying not to laugh at an inappropriate moment finds the situation of trying not to laugh ''funny'', so setting off said feedback loop. The concept is illustrated throughout by an increasingly precarious stack of pint glasses.
** Additionally, while Jeff, Steve, and Patrick are all about to choke on their laughter, it was ''Jane'' who was the first to break.
* ''[[Titus]]'' had a Christmas episode of all things that dealt with this. Titus goes to the funeral of an ex-
** Another Fun In Funeral moment: after Juanita's suicide, Titus and Erin visit her lawyer for a will reading. According to the will, Titus and Erin have to eat apples for dinner should Juanita die. Not ''too'' bad, but Juanita was a homocidal, manic-depressive schizophrenic with touches of paranoia and multiple personalities. The "apples" that Erin and Titus have to eat is actually {{spoiler|the name of the dog Juanita killed back in 1978 and kept in her freezer since then}}.
** According to the comedy special "The 5th Annual End of the World Tour," Titus had to deal with his dad's funeral, who requested that he be put in a cardboard box <ref>
* ''[[Peep Show]]'' features an episode where Jez's religious uncle dies, but his atheist sister provides a secular funeral for him, prompting Jez to go on a long, [[Metaphorgotten]] rant about the musician Enya instead of giving a eulogy:
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has J.D. attending the funeral of one of his patients and ending up having sex with the widow, prompting him to quip "there's a lot of ways to grieve, but last time I checked, wheelbarrow style wasn't one". In another episode, Turk attends the funeral of one of the patients, but forgets the man's name and accidentally mentions how bored he is too loudly. Another occasion has J.D imagine his ''own'' funeral during the funeral of a co-worker, in which he has had himself positioned upright in his own coffin with his arms wide open, with his last request being a final hug from his own co-workers. Upon receiving a hug from Dr. Cox, he reveals that he has in fact faked his own death ''solely to receive a hug from Cox''. Cox ends up breaking his neck and ''actually'' killing him.
** Dr. Murphy, already the cause of many death-related jokes, also appears as "the guy that is completely inappropriate" by telling the co-workers uncle that he did her autopsy. Later on, he wonders if he left his cellphone inside her.
* Barney in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' claims that his funeral is the only time he won't be wearing a suit because suits are happy garments...a suit is the sartorial equivalent of a baby's smile.
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'''Everyone:''' (on way out of room) That's disgusting...
'''Marshall:''' (last to leave room) Dude, that's awesome! }}
* In an episode of ''[[Homicide: Life
* One episode of ''The Armando Ianucci Shows'' involved the mortuary owner solemnly informing the bereaved that "We like to do a rodeo theme." Therefore, the eulogy was delivered while riding on the coffin, like one of those mechanical bulls.
* In the Australian comedy series, ''[[Mother And Son]]'', Maggie, the somewhat senile titular mother, insists on buying a big bag of oranges on the way to a burial. During the burial the bag splits, showering the casket.
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* Following Oliver's death in Season 1 of [[Slings and Arrows]], Geoffrey goes to view his body. As he lays his copy of ''Hamlet'' in the casket, Oliver opens his eyes and starts lecturing Geoffrey, who hisses "Shut up!" at him when someone else approaches. Later, at the memorial service, all goes well with people telling amusing stories about Oliver - until Geoffrey gets on. His initially touching speech eventually devolves into a rant about the New Burbage theatre festival. The memorial service ends when a fire-and-brimstone preacher delivers a sermon about how the theatre is Satan's trap for the unwary and gay people (like Oliver) are going to hell, at which point Anna pulls the fire alarm.
* On ''[[The Wire]]'', whenever a cop dies (usually because the actor playing him had himself died), they host the cop funeral at the local pub next to the station. "Tomorrow the family gets him, but tonight he drinks with the boys!" The departed is laid out on the pool table, with a beer in one hand and a cigar in the other, and after a hilarious, but heartfelt eulogy summing up their finest moments from Sgt. Landsman, they all [[Crowning Music of Awesome|sing "The Body of an American" by The Pogues]]. From the last such wake in the series finale, {{spoiler|Albeit a symbolic one}}.
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Bunk: "Jay, if you were lying dead in some gutter, it was probably {{spoiler|Jimmy}} that done ya! }}
* ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' had an episode where Thermoman's [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] acting up led to his secret identity, George Sunday, being thought dead by everyone. The idea was that he'd sit up in the coffin during the ceremony before his cremation and make [[Smug Snake|Dr. Piers Crispin]] look like an idiot (which isn't particularly difficult). Two things combined to put it under this trope: a sudden attack of that same BAB problem that caused all this in the first place, and a B-plot featuring Mrs. Raven fusing therapeutic and stage hypnosis. [[Hilarity Ensues]]:
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'''Ella''': Take me now my stallion Stanley, ravage me you raving beast! (Out of character as all hell)
...
'''Vicar''': Two...
'''Stanley''': [[Spider-Man|That is my gift, that is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man]]!
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'''Vicar''': Three...
'''Piers''': <[[Hypno Fool|chicken noises]]
'''Mrs. Raven''': Shame he won't get to four!
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'''Vicar''': These are the things we will remember this good man for.
'''Janet's Parents, Arnie, and Piers''': (complete with the dance) [[Village People|YMCA...It's fun to stay at the YMCA]]
...
([[Bizarre Alien Biology]] is acting up, so George hasn't sat up on schedule, and Janet is trying to stop the coffin from entering the [[Buffy-Speak|furnace cremation...thing]])
'''Priest''': She's got the strength of ten!
'''The Same Four As Before''': (Start doing the Chicken Dance. Mrs. Raven falls out of her seat laughing) }}
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' once features a hearse painted all black on one side and black with lots of flower decorations on the other. It also has a funeral where a priest gets shot with [[Failed a Spot Check|a large and very obvious cannon poking out of the grave]].
* ''[[2point4
* ''[[Bones]]'' had "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed" which involved Brennan stealing the body, Booth handcuffing the mortician to the coffin, Hodgins watching Brennan and Booth carrying (and dropping) the body whilst giving a speech to guests who are oblivious to everything happening outside, Cam placing her sunglasses on the corpse, and culminated in tricking the murderer into confessing.
** And ''Booth'' singing! * It's epic and really weird. But... Mostly Epic.)
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* ''[[All in The Family]]'' had Archie's friend Stretch Cunningham die, with Archie chosen against his will to deliver the eulogy. It's only at the funeral that Archie discovers that Stretch was Jewish...Bunker-esque [[Hilarity Ensues]] with his improvised speech.
* ''[[Northern Exposure]]'': Maggie's most recent boyfriend was killed when a communications satellite landed on him. The satellite fused with the deceased, and the coffin had to be specially built to hold the whole thing.
* The cast of ''[[Lexx]]'' spends an episode hiding from authorities in an Ohio funeral parlor. The director has them attend to a grieving
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* When a cast member in ''[[Greg the Bunny]]'' died on stage, it turns out his will was to have his funeral be a cocktail party. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQjE6D_dKw This] ''Almost Live!'' sketch.
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* ''[[Saved by the Bell]]: The College Years'' had a professor die and at the funeral Dean McMahon accidentally drops her phone into the casket and her arm gets stuck in it just when she's forced to give a eulogy.
* ''[[Charmed]]'' had a variation where the sisters had faked their deaths and were holding a wake for themselves. Annoyed that so few people were mourning her, Paige cast a spell on herself to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|look like Janice Dickinson and give a tearful speech on how Paige was Janice's only real friend]]. And Phoebe tried to pick up a guy who was mourning her.
* Season Five, Ep2 of ''[[Doc Martin]]'' plays this to the hilt with Joan's funeral. The hearse is late, the guests are weird,<ref>er than normal</ref>
* In the original ''[[Traffic Light]]'', Itzko’s uncle, who was a clown, dies, and demands in his will that Itzko be his ‘funeral clown’. This is especially hillarious as he attends the wrong, serious funeral, only to see the right one, complete with clowns singing parodies about birthday songs, not far from there. However, this does get him started on a brief new career as a funeral clown.
* In the late Irish comedian Dave Allen's sketch/stand-up show, he had a recurring sketch with apparently solemn funerals descending into farce, mostly ending in a race to the graveyard.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" tells what happens when the title character sits up in coffin, alive and hungry.
▲== Music ==
* In the music video for ''Helena'' by My Chemical Romance the titular woman's funeral includes dancing mourners, the lyrics to the song are the eulogy delivered by Gerard Way, there's a (the) band, and the deceased gets up and dances ballet amongst the praying mourners.
* [[Ray Stevens]] has a song entitled ''Sitting Up with the Dead'' in which his late Uncle Fred is so horribly bent over due to arthritis that the morticians have to use a heavy chain to straighten him out. Somehow the chain snaps in the middle of the wake, causing Uncle Fred to sit up in his casket. [[Hilarity Ensues]]
** Cultural Note: This was partly based on the until recent tradition of holding all the services and such at a private residence. "Sitting Up with the Dead" was the practice of somebody staying awake and with the casket during the night so that it was never left unattended. Now think about ''that'' poor sap.
* A perfect example of this may well be the
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* Less about shenanigans and more about ritual celebration, ''The Saints Go Marching In'' is about the hope of going to heaven after death. It's one of the jauntiest tunes in existence.
* The music video for [[Rammstein]]'s ''Haifisch''. Let's see, two women Till slept with get in a fight, the remaining band members discuss ''right there'' who to replace him with, said band members spend it fantasizing about how ''they'' would have killed Till (well, except Paul, [[Ho Yay|he just fantasized about getting spanked by Till]]), ''they'' get into a fight, and to top it all off, {{spoiler|Till had faked his death the entire time}}.
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* ''Going Out In Style'' by The [[Dropkick Murphys]] is sung from the POV of someone who doesn't care what's done to his body after he goes as long as there's a huge, loud, well-lubricated traditional Irish wake.
* The Pogues' (sensing an Irish theme yet?) "Body of an American", as excellently used in ''[[The Wire]]'''s cop funerals;
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There was uncles givin' lectures on ancient Irish hist'ry
The men all started tellin' jokes and the women they got frisky
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* In the chapter ''...Consider Making New Friends'' of ''[[Conquering the Horizon]]'', Mr. Mooshi's eulogy/sermon starts on a comedic note, to EP's indignation.
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* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] feud between [[The Big Show]] and the Big Boss Man may just take the cake for this one. Boss Man interrupted Big Show's father's (outdoor) funeral by driving up in a former police car with a loudspeaker mounted on the top and cracking bad jokes about Show and his father over the speaker. Then, he chained Show's dad's coffin to his back bumper and dragged it off while Show desperately held onto the coffin (in what's often called "the coffin surfing incident" by fans). This was part of a longer feud, that also involved a "sympathy" poem by Boss Man that included the lines, "But if I had a son who was as stupid as you/I'd wish for cancer, so I could die too."
** Said poem was followed by the beautiful sentiment "That's exactly how I feel about the Big Show's daddy being dead". The poem, coffin surfing and a summary of the whole feud can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GX0lbKxzCw&feature=related here] The poem is between 1:28 and 2:10. The funeral starts at 2:28. Beautiful!
*** Having just watched the video, that isn't just any ex-cop car, it's a copy of the Bluesmobile from ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''.
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***** The ridiculousness of the angle was later [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with Big Boss Man, in a stable including [[Kurt Angle]], retells the story.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Pretty much the entirety of ''Grandma Sylvia's Funeral'', starting before the audience even goes inside (this part may differ for different runs - in one version, the hearse arrived with the back door open and no casket - it showed up sticking out of the trunk of a taxi a few minutes later).
* ''Old Dogs'', an amateur dramatics play, turns this [[Up to Eleven]] with the accidental homicide of a pimp who chases a prostitute into an old folks' home. The body is initially hidden in the fridge, but when the person who accidentally killed him dies of a heart attack, the body is shlepped into the single coffin and buried with him. All this takes place at double quick speed to fool the warden, who has returned early from holiday to find that [[Hilarity Ensues|her home has been turned into a brothel and a naive young inspector is also missing]].
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* In the opening scene of ''[[Paint Your Wagon (theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]'', Ben Rumson is in the middle of delivering a eulogy for his fallen friend Jim Newberry, when his daughter Jennifer runs her hands through the dirt around the grave and finds gold. Jennifer is anxious to tell, but Ben angrily silences her and continues. But just as the three miners accompanying him are about to leap in, Ben winds up his eulogy quickly: "I hope you'll make him happy up there... for-ever-and-ever-I-stake-this-claim--Amen!"
▲== Video Games ==
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Captain Qwark]]'s memorial in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'' features not only Ratchet (who knew damn well that Qwark was about as heroic as [[Buffy-Speak|something not very heroic]]) listing Qwark's "wonderful qualities" as including being really tall and having a chin with "kind of a butt shape", but also has Clank ( {{spoiler|actually [[Evil Twin|Klunk]]}}) responding to the Galactic President's heartfelt speech with "What a load of [[Curse Cut Short|bullsh-]]".
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXW-cKI1bw&feature=player_embedded# This infamous 2006 video] of a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' funeral getting crashed by a guild of [[Troll|self-proclaimed assholes]] for laughs, especially considering that the player died of a terminal illness. [[Soundtrack Dissonance|The PvP carnage is set to]] "[[Scatman John|Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)]]" for extra funeral fun. For better or for worse, ''WoW'' players learned from this incident and now hold funerals in non-PvP zones so as to remove the fun from them. On the other hand, the deceased was a fairly hardcore [[PvP]] player, and the "crashing" players were merely paying their respects in their own, cross-faction way.
* Although we don't see [https://web.archive.org/web/20140422052735/http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/funeral/ Donkey's funeral] in [[Weebl and Bob]], the buildup is filled with [[Gallows Humor]] ("I guess it's time to put donkey... in the ass hole!") and an [[Stealth Pun|incredibly lazy joke about Donkey's father being]] [[Donkey Kong|a giant ape]].▼
▲== Web Animation ==
▲* Although we don't see [http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/funeral/ Donkey's funeral] in [[Weebl and Bob]], the buildup is filled with [[Gallows Humor]] ("I guess it's time to put donkey... in the ass hole!") and an [[Stealth Pun|incredibly lazy joke about Donkey's father being]] [[Donkey Kong|a giant ape]].
** Bob actually mentions that Mr Teeth 'puts the fun in funeral'.
* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', the Strong Bad Email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail168.html your funeral]" has Strong Bad describing what will happen when he dies; he'll be [[People Jars|preserved in a jar]] so that he can return for the zombie apocalypse, his funeral dirge will be death metal, he'll record his own eulogy (which will, of course, be accidentally recorded over), and at the end, he'll come back to life in order to prevent his brother from performing an interpretive dance.
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In a ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' strip, someone actually masturbates with an urn containing the ashes of a [[Black Comedy Rape|girl she raped to death]]... and it breaks inside her. She then doesn't have the heart to clean out the ashes.
* ''[[Something
** An early strip shows Davan attending the funeral of his childhood friend, Scotty, who committed suicide. His grief quickly takes the form of rage towards Scotty, which he then takes out on the corpse. Literally, taking the corpse out of the coffin to shake it and yell at it. In the background, J. Grant, making a cameo, urges Davan to "let the legions of the dead know we living will no longer be oppressed by their cold clutches."
** Another one features Davan laying out his plans for his own funeral, where he will be dressed in a smoking jacket and propped up in a chair so that people can have their photos taken with him. There will be attractive cocktail waitresses (to make sure Jason attends) and marshmallow roasting on his pyre, after which Aubrey will be given his skull to mount on her wall.
** Yet another includes Faye [
** Another strip had [[Pee Jee]] sending a wreath to the funeral of a female supervisor who'd spent the last few weeks sexually harassing her (and was threatening to sue her when she was killed by a Canadian Trapdoor Alligator). Unfortunately, the floral service screws up the order... and a giant "You'll Always Be My Valentine!" wreath shows up instead.
** Another [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511043958/http://somethingpositive.net/sp04062011.shtml reveals] that when Aubrey and Peejee were passed out from alcohol, Jhim [[Ho Yay|stripped them naked, posed them together in Davan's bed, and took pictures]], which he then [[Comedic Sociopathy|arranged to have on display at the reading of his will]].
* A [[Near-Death Experience]] in ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' gave the main character a vision of his own funeral, where ''he'' put the fun into it. This included arranging for his lawyers to deliver a knee to the groin of his [[Jerkass]] older brother, having a huge naked golden statue of himself standing over his grave (complete with erect penis, so young women could "pay their respects") and making his best friend deliver a eulogy as if he was a character in a [[The Lord of the Rings]]-[[Star Wars]] crossover. It also featured a subversion at the end, however, as the last shot from the funeral was his five year old niece, a single tear forming in her eye, whispering "Unca?" her preferred nickname for him.
** "[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060907 Well played, little sister, well played]."
* As one of the entries on the [[The Fun in Funeral/Quotes|quotes page]] shows, in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', {{spoiler|Xinchub's}} funeral, and the events leading up to it, is treated like this, because the main characters hate him. Then they get paid to steal his corpse ''and'' act as security for the funeral. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* As always, ''White Ninja'' shows us how it's done: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925184557/http://whiteninjacomics.com/comics/heartout.shtml with style].
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Aradia is eager to try a human "corpse party," since trolls don't have funerals and since she doesn't know that they're supposed to be somber affairs.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Guild]]'', we're told that Zaboo still managed to find wi-fi at his grandfather's funeral.
* The popular [[Improv Everywhere]] group did an April Fool's video where they pretended they crashed a funeral as mourners. People who saw it on youtube the day it came out understood it was a joke, but afterwards they got a lot of flack from people who didn't understand it was put up on April Fools and were use to their more friendly ones like Frozen Grand Central or Pantless Subway Ride. Despite putting up warningins in the description and in annotations and the title - yes, the title - a few people still respond "outraged" many years later.
* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', command sends Sister as a new recruit because Red Team's commander {{spoiler|(actually Blue Team's commander; Sister is colorblind))}} supposedly died. Sarge refuses to believe that command could be mistaken, so he has the rest of his team give him a funeral. Grif turns his eulogy into a stand-up routine, Sister just insults Sarge because "old people are gross", and Simmons briefly talks about how Sarge was a great leader before trying to steal his job.
** There was also the Blue Team funeral for Church and Tex, made more awkward because Church was standing right there with them, and Tucker refuses to do the eulogy.
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'''Tucker''': "Why not, dude? I eulogize myself all the time. Wait. I think I don't know what the word 'eulogize' means..."
'''[[The Ditz|Caboose]]''': "I know how to do this! *ahem* Dearly Beloved: we are gathered here today to witness the joining together of Church and Tex in... togetherness... uh... speak now! Or forever rest in peace! With liberty and justice for all! The end!" }}
* In ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', {{spoiler|Ma-Ti's}} funeral alternates between serious and funny all the time (on his overall heartwarming eulogy, [[The Nostalgia Critic]] has to explain why he was cremated - [[You Don't Want to Know]] how - and put in a can of Quaker Oats, and describes him as the most {{spoiler|"[[Buffy-Speak|hearty]]"}} person he's ever met; the "show your arms" by the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] crew has [[The Nostalgia Chick]] pulling her wig; [[Paw Dugan]] plays [[Amazing Fricking Grace]] in a kazoo - which still sounds like a [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes|bagpipe]] orchestra!)
* From season 2, episode 6 of [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DEBCC868724EAA19 Kpts4tv, mac_sly56, and Arkonid's] ''[[Death Note the Abridged Series (kpts4tv)|Death Note Abridged series]]'':
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'''Matsuda:''' But Chief... isn't that the same thing?
'''Souichiro:''' Dammit Matsuda, stop ruining my eulogy! I will never forget the last time I saw him smile—it was the day he took away Matsuda's innocence. Oh how we laughed and Matsuda cried when
''The taskforce leaves''
'''Light:''' [[Evil Laugh|Muwahahahaa]][[Laughing Mad|hahahaha hahahaha!]] (''crawls on top of
'''Ryuk:''' Light, uh... [[Horrifying the Horror|you're scaring me.]]
'''Light:''' Oh Ryuk, I haven't even ''begun'' to scare you yet! }}
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Pharaoh to Remember", the gang stages a fake funeral for Bender, who listens in from his own casket. He's at first pleased, but grows more bitter ("'''LOUDER''' and '''SADDER'''!") before he erupts in anger.
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'''Bender''': Your best is an idiot! }}
* ''[[South Park]]'', "A Ladder to Heaven": Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, mistaking them for chocolate milk mix.
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** And there's always Homer's mom, who asked that her ashes be thrown away at a certain point at a certain time. Of course, this is so her ashes disrupt some evil machine or something.
** The season four episode "Selma's Choice" (the one where Marge's Great-Aunt Gladys dies and Selma continues trying to have a baby before she hits menopause [which actually happened in a later episode]) actually had a funeral home sign that reads, "The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home -- We Put the ''Fun'' in 'Funeral'".
** In one of the earliest episodes, "Bart the General,"
** During the Tracy Ullman "shorts" era, there was "The Funeral," where Bart is (well) himself at his elderly Uncle Hubert's funeral. (Presumably this is Abe's brother or cousin.) First, Bart clenches his hands in sadistic anticipation of viewing Hubert's corpse at the visitation, only to collapse when he actually sees Hubert's body. Later, he helps "direct" the pallbearers to the gravesite, in preparation for the casket being lowered into the ground; a disgusted Homer grabs Bart before he can pull any other hijinks.
** At Bleeding Gums Murphy's funeral, Reverend Lovejoy refers to him as "Blood and Guts Murphy", mistakenly calls him a sousaphone player in the eulogy, and Homer uses the event to look for a hot dog vendor (who follows him everywhere, because Homer is apparently putting his kids through college). On a much sadder note, Lisa was the only mourner present (not counting her parents).
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* In the ''[[Duckman]]'' episode "Pig Amock", the normally staid Cornfed, suffering from a familial genetic disease, suddenly becomes outrageously horny while giving a eulogy. This culminates in an attempt to [[Black Comedy Rape|sex up]] the widow upon hallucinating her scantily clad and wearing a "Pigs Welcome" sign. After he apologizes to everyone and runs off, Bernice fears there's [[Captain Obvious|something wrong]] with him, whereupon Duckman says, "Seemed perfectly normal to me."
** In "Love! Anger! Kvetching!", the episode ends with the burial of Duckman's horrific uncle, featuring a balsawood coffin and a song specially composed for the occasion:
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* The ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode, " A Fire Fighting We Will Go", Hank and his friends, Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer, act as pallbearers for Chet Elderson, a former firefighter. While taking the casket to the grave, Hank's glasses fell off him so he tries to pick it up but end up falling in the grave with his friends with Boomhauer pantsing Chet Elderson.
* In an episode of ''[[The Boondocks]]'', Granddad Freeman is asked to read the eulogy, written by the deceased, at the funeral of a [[Jerkass]] war buddy. He gets about halfway through, his voice increasingly incredulous, until he eventually gives up, speaks his mind, and finds out that nobody else really liked the guy either. {{spoiler|In the end, though, Granddad does show some affection, displaying his inheritance on the mantel even though it was really just one last prank.}}
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* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': During "Hearts and Hooves Day", Sweetie Belle jumps on the back of a priest, noogies him, calls him "too old" for Cheerilee, and jumps away. During a musical number. ''With a coffin visible on the side of the screen.'' One wonders what the mourners thought of a singing filly jumping into the funeral and giving the priest a noogie.
* In recent years, North American funerals and memorial services have become less about
▲== Real Life ==
▲* In recent years, North American funerals and memorial services have become less about tradition -- in the religious context, the reading of sacred texts, hymns sung by a vocalist, a sermon and prayers sanctifying and committing the dead -- and more about celebrating the lives of the deceased loved one. Such services often take place at a site other than a funeral home or church, such as at a golf course, community hall, park, or a place where the decedant loved to spend time. Attendees often wear no more than business casual clothes, and often are asked just to come in clothing as informal as a T-shirt and shorts, or dressed specifically (for instance, a football uniform or other shirt signifying the deceased's favorite NFL team, or a Halloween costume). While there may be a brief prayer or sermon, the gathering is more for having fun and celebrating the life just passed rather than mourning for the dead.
** Even at traditional funerals, a close family member giving a eulogy may include funny stories about the decedant, and sometimes a video may be played highlighting the humorous points of the loved one's life.
** Interestingly, celebrating the deceased's life in a happy way is more in keeping with the north European version of a wake. Many people in Ireland and the UK have been sent off by their loved ones getting together, drinking heavily and remembering the good times. ''All while the body is present''.
*** It's becoming more and more common for people to make their funerals more fun from the beyond
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ The Funeral of Monty Python Member Graham Chapman]. Of course, when your eulogy is written and delivered by [[John Cleese]], this is to be expected. This also presents some rather rapid [[Mood Whiplash]] as you suddenly don't know whether you should laugh or cry.
** The proper answer is laugh. He had a separate memorial, this one was held so they wouldn't ruin that one.
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** In fact, they had songs from all of his series sung in his honor. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ Big Bird sung "It's Not Easy Bein' Green"], Harry Belafonte [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Em3vVwsm0 sung "Turn The World Around"], while the regular cast did a medley of his most popular songs, including the slightly naughty "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" (Which was sung by [[Kevin Clash]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|using his Elmo voice]]). [[Tear Jerker|It did not stem the flow of tears, of course.]]
* In Judaism, any books with God's name (in Hebrew) must be buried after they are of no use. Sometimes, people sneak their old books into a grave.
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* A soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was depicted as an advocate of Fun Funerals (or rather as a half-conscious clot) in this joke:
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* A [[Doctor Who]] fan who bore a strong resemblance to [[David Tennant]] was buried in a [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191224/Dr-Who-lookalike-sent-Tardis-style-coffin.html coffin painted to resemble a TARDIS].
* Many traditional slave funerals in 18th and 19th century America were often times of joyous celebration due to death being seen by some slave cultures more as transcendence than as an end, due to strong animist spiritual traditions and the toil and suffering of slave life. There would be shouting, dancing, and loud music as the deceased was buried. These traditions live on in the form of the New Orleans jazz funerals mentioned above.
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* The Concert for George, [[George Harrison]] 's memorial service held one year to the day after his death.
* [[Christopher Titus]] described his father's exact wishes on how he wanted his funeral and how he wanted to be buried. He wanted to be put into a cardboard box, "open casket," a cover charge at the door (ladies get in free), and everyone would get a chance to pee on him (complete with Willie Nelsons "Blue-Eyes Crying in the Rain" playing). And that isn't even covering what he wanted done with his ashes...
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* [[Joan Rivers]]' funeral in September 2014 played out exactly as she had requested in her 2012 book ''I Hate Everyone... Starting With Me'':
{{quote|''I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action. I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. ... I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents. ... I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive. I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag... And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing like Beyoncé’s.''}}
:She got everything but the wind machine, plus hilarious and touching tributes that left the attendees laughing between their tears.
* It was a common practice, dating back to Ancient [[The Roman Empire|Rome]], to have a clown to be present in a funeral. This is often practiced in funerals of circus performers.
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