-->''Here lies the body of Johnathan Blake,\\
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake''

So, you're playing a videogame, and you are in a graveyard. You click the on the tombstone and the character reads: "Paul E. Nate-A wonderful husband, father, and florist." That right there is Grave Humor. Usually in comedic shows, games etc., whenever a character enters a cemetery, they will read a tombstone that often has something humorous on it. Perhaps a pun, poem, or an ironic/strange death. Can be an example of TruthInTelevision. Related to, but not to be confused with, BlackComedy.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Disney Theme Parks ]]

* The tombstones outside Disney's Haunted Mansion ride.
* SixFlags over Atlanta's train ride in the late 70s had a tombstone hidden in the weeds, "I Tole You I Wuz Sick!"

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''TheCatherineTateShow'' featured the extremely popular character of Lauren Cooper, a mouthy schoolgirl whose catchphrase is "Am I bovvered?" (bothered). In the 2007 Christmas special, she [[spoiler:is kayaking and says this to a man who warns her to stay away from a particular stretch of water. She ignores his advice, and is killed when her boat goes over a waterfall.]] Her friends are then seen standing by her tombstone, which is inscribed with the words "I still ain't bovvered".
* As always, there is an example from ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}''. When [[spoiler: Buffy]] dies at the end of season 5, her tombstone reads [[spoiler: Buffy Anne Summers, beloved sister, devoted friend. She saved the world. A lot.]]
* In ''GregTheBunny'' Count Blah (who has a VerbalTic of saying "blah" after sentences) visited the grave of his wife, which reads, "Beloved Wife, Blah. R.I.P.B."
* In the reunion movie ''[[TheWildWildWest The Wild Wild West Revisited]]'', James West and Artemus Gordon are shown the grave of their arch-nemesis Migelito Loveless, as made by Migelito's son: A Rushmore-sized carving of the man's last name in the side of a mountain, with tiny little plots staked out for the two heroes in its shadow.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* Two examples from Snopes.com:
** [[http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/expired.asp This one is kind of charming.]]
** [[http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp This one, not so much.]]
*Comedian Spike Milligan's grave says, "I told you I was ill". However, the inscription is in Irish Gaelic, because the bishop wouldn't allow it in English.
* Rodney Dangerfield's epitaph: [[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GSln=Dangerfield&GSfn=Rodney&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=9556754&PIgrid=9556754&PIcrid=8440&PIpi=1932468& There goes the neighborhood]]
* In the Boothill graveyard near Tombstone, Arizona, there's a grave that reads:
--> "Here lies Lester Moore, four slugs from a .44, no Les, no more."
*Comedian W.C. Fields used to say that he wanted his gravestone to read "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia". Sadly, it doesn't.
* OlderThanYouThink: AmbroseBierce has examples of humorous epitaphs in ''[=~The Devil's Dictionary~=]'', such as "Sacred to the memory of Jeremiah Tree. Cut down May 9th, 1862, aged 27 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. Indigenous."
** "Here lies the late Senator Vrooman\\
Whose head was as hard as the heart of a woman\\
Whose heart was as hard as the head of a hammer\\
Dame Fortune inspired him to eminence, damn her!"
* RobertBurns also wrote humorous epitaphs, like [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/robertburns/works/epitaph_on_a_wag_in_mauchline/ Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline]].

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''SamAndMax in Night of The Raving Dead''
* The original ''FinalFantasy'' had a tombstone reading, "Here lies Erdrick," after the hero (well, hero's ancestor) of competing game company Enix's ''DragonWarrior'' series.
** In the original Japanese version and the ''Dawn of Souls'' English translation, the tombstone read "here lies Link".
* ''{{Arcanum}}'' had these in every graveyard in the game, with inscriptions like. "I told you I was sick!" "Here lies an atheist all dressed up and no place to go." "Quoeth thy Raven nevermore." "Hey who blew out the candle? Hello?" and "There was a light at the end of the tunnel, unfortunately that light was a train."
** There was also a hidden 'Fan Graveyard' as an EasterEgg, where forum members familiar to the devs were eulogized.
*''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' had some fun with raunchy [[{{PunnyName}} Punny Names]]; R. Sole is an example.
*''{{Primal}}'' had Jen smash a tombstone that read 'RIP Laura Croft 2003' as a TakeThat to ''TombRaider''. The game came out in 2003, obviously.
*Can be found in ''MonkeyIsland 2: Lechuck's Revenge'' and ''Curse of Monkey Island''.
*''{{Fallout}} 2'' has a number of these, including the "four slugs from a .44" example above.
* ''TheElderScrolls IV: Oblivion'' had a whole graveyard of these in its expansion pack, with new tombstones added with each consecutive PlotlineDeath. This troper's personal favorite is "Hirrus Clutumnus never thought he'd fit in anywhere. He fits rather nicely in a coffin now."
** ''The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire'' had another whole graveyard of these, and this graveyard was referenced to in ''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard''.
* ''NeverwinterNights'' has a tombstone that reads along the lines of "Here lies X, who scoffed at the warnings of lesser men and built this fine tower. He discovered his error a few weeks later. Beware of trolls."
* The graveyard in Nashkel in the first ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' game is full of these, including an EasterEgg that'll trigger a BonusBoss fight if you click on it too many times.
** ''Baldur's Gate'' beats this one to death in one town. You get things like "Here lies X, who was killed by (long list of summonable creatures)" followed by the Latin for "do not call up what you cannot put down", implying that this was a hapless summoner who didn't know what he was getting into. There are WAY better ones, but this troper cannot recall them.
* See also the CartoonNetwork Web game ''ScoobyDoo and the Hollywood Horror''.
* Used in ''QuestForGlory IV'', with numerous "graveyard humor" jokes scattered beyond the tombstones.
** Not to mention [[TheIgor Igor]], who is a veritable walking fountain of graveyard humor.
** Also seen in ''[[KingsQuest King's Quest VII]]''. [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=B_gFPbpWh5g Here's a video.]]
** And ''King's Quest IV''.
** And ''QuestForGlory'' I, for that matter.
* ''Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun.''
* The video game ''{{Fable}}'' has many of these. Most using the rhyming pun. The deceased tend to be people who worked on the game.
* ''Betrayal at Krondor'' had a mix of ordinary and humorous quips on the gravestones, and you were also able to dig up the graves. Most graves had nothing special, some had hidden items hinted at by the eulogy (for example, a gravestone reading "Drank his milk every day" hid a few vials of milk), and some had "The fiend beneath this stone is trapped by dirt, not by death": Zombies!
* Let's face it: who ''didn't'' play ''OregonTrail'' as a kid and put "pepperoni and cheese" on their tombstone?
* The PC game ''{{Sacred}}'' does this, including such epitaphs as "And he said, 'How long will the flying spell last?'" and the [[NoFourthWall fourth-wall breaking]] [[SchmuckBait "For the ultimate cheat of void, enter DOS, type 'format C:\' and enter".]]
* ''{{NetHack}}''. There are randomly generated graves with these. This troper's favorite is "We weren't sure who this was, but we buried him here anyway".
** "Og friend. Og good dude. Og died. Og now food."
** Plus ''loads'' more, and several places add more to the file (nethack.alt.org has a massive collection).
*** Link plz...
* ''Ultima V-VII'' had a number of puns on grave stones.
* In ''Veil of Darkness'', the graveyard is filled with these, including one [[MonkeyIsland G. Threepwood]] and how woefully he was under for 11 minutes.
* Going way back to the NES, there was a game called ''StarTropics''. Second game in the series placed you in a mining town for one of the chapters, which has a graveyard full of these. "Lucky Larry: Lucky all his life until that last landslide".
* ''{{Sanitarium}}'' has plenty, mostly for developers. There's also the grave of Joseph Bruener, a character from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Wind_II War Wind II]]'' (a game which ''Sanitarium'''s developers had previously worked on).
** "This one says ''Travis W. Nice Goddamn Cat...''" Granted, this was on a level that's basically a mangled bunch of all the previous levels, so randomness like this is expected.
* {{MOTHER 3}} has a [[HurricaneOfPuns hurricane]] of "grave" puns. Also, a "NO ZOMBIES ALLOWED" sign at the cemetery entrance.
* MortalKombat 3 features tombstones of the game's developers, as well as one reading "Cage", presumably a reference to Johnny Cage, the character who died before the events of the game.
* The city of Haven in ''DragonAge: Origins'' has a graveyard filled with humorous tombstones, including some {{Shout Out}}s to others on the the page. ("Sensal Gaheris: 775-798, 798-801, 801-805, 805-807, 807-809 (VERIFIED), 'BEST TAX EVADER EVER' -- CH")

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* In ''HomestarRunner'', Strong Bad wanted [[http://www.hrwiki.org/images/b/bb/replacement.png this]] on his grave.
* Eugene Greenhilt's tombstone in ''TheOrderOfTheStick'', in addition to listing his [[DeathIsCheap many dates of death and resurrection]] reads, "Master Wizard, Devoted Husband, Passable Father." (He was lucky to get that much.) Other visible tombstones display similar humor ("Bloodmak the Unholy: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Not coming back as a vampire. Honest.]]")
* A staple of the webcomic ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Unlife_is_Unfair Unlife is Unfair]]'', particularly the name puns like "Dustin Dewinn" and "Rick R. Mortis".
* In ''GirlGenius'', a visit to the Crypt of the Heterodynes reveals many amusing epitaphs. Perhaps most interesting is the tomb of Lazarus Heterodyne, with half a dozen dates crossed out.
** As well as Iscariot Heterodyne, "Every Man's Friend". The [[NothingButSkulls pile of skulls]] next to the crypt are labeled things like "Friend #115".
* Happens frequently in ''[[http://www.lr-comic.com/ The Comic Adventures of Left & Right]]''. The grave usually reads something pertinent to the last thing a character was doing.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''HeyArnold'' did this with a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion.
* ''[[CasperTheFriendlyGhost The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper]]'' did this in the credit sequence, with the tombstone reading "I'm with stupid" next to another tombstone reading, "I'm stupid".
* The opening titles of several of ''TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Horror" episodes.
** The last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag.
* The SpongebobSquarepants episode where [[{{greed}} Mr. Krabs]] goes to a graveyard to dig up a million dollar hat. Squidward was mourning at a tombstone and when Mr. Krabs came to see who it was, he sees that the engraving reads "Here lie Squidwards hopes and dreams." In the same graveyard, there's "Diver Dan", whose tombstone has carved SCUBA gear on it, "Stupid" next to "I'm With Stupid", complete with pointing hand, and most importantly, the "#1" shaped tombstone of Smitty Warbenjaegarmanjetson, whose name extends off the name plaque.
* Beavis and Butthead in their parody of Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol'': 'Here lies Beavis, he never scored.'

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[[folder: Troper Tales ]]

* This troper used to have a book full of these - "The Book Of Tombstone Humour" by Richard [=DeAth=]. His dad may have nicked it.

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