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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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* 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 woman—Blind Al, for those familiar—to fall into his grave. He eventually crosses to the afterlife, where [[Death]] is waiting to seduce him, but is returned to life before anything occurs.
* 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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* 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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