History Main / TheFunInFuneral

* ''The Commissar'' by Creator/SvenHassel. The funeral of Gregor's unnamed GeneralRipper 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.

* In the opening of John R. Powers' novel ''The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God'', the narrator, Tim Conroy, is sitting in the neighborhood funeral parlor, remembering two incidents that occurred there: When he was thirteen, his uncontrollable laughter at his Great Uncle Elmer's funeral in response to a funeral director's comment, "Will everyone please come up and take a last look at Mr. Elmer Keegan and then pass out." The second, just before he started college, involved him accidentally tripping over a woman on her knees praying, when he wasn't watching where he was going.

* WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}: Joel holds a "funeral" for his bootlegged, red, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 controller. Yes, seriously. He writes the "engraving" in Comic Sans, sings a very funny parody of [[Film/Titanic1997 "My Heart Will Go On"]] using a crappy MIDI as background music, makes a joke about Creator/DannyDeVito, and proceeds to buy a new controller. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBmRhWX8EQ here]].

* ''Literature/StarterVillain'' begins with Charlie being asked to officiate at his estranged uncle Jake's funeral. The funeral director askes him what to do with all of the floral arrangements that celebrate Jake's being dead in various obscene ways. Then Charlie learns that everyone else at the funeral is just there to make sure Jake really is dead - including by trying to stab the body.

* ''Literature/StarterVillain'' begins with Charlie being asked to officiate at his estranged uncle Jake's funeral. The funeral director askes him what to do with all of the funeral arrangements that celebrate Jake's being dead in various obscene ways. Then Charlie learns that everyone else at the funeral is just there to make sure Jake really is dead - including by trying to stab the body.

* In ''Anime/SummerWars,'' the family gathers to celebrate Grandma Sakae's 90th birthday, but she dies a few days shy of it. In the final scenes we get her funeral, where most of her family sings HappyBirthdayToYou while wearing party hats and carrying silly props.

* In ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', [[spoiler:Ma-Ti]]'s funeral alternates between serious and funny (on his overall heartwarming eulogy, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has to explain why he was cremated -- YouDontWantToKnow how -- and put in a can of Quaker Oats, and describes him as the most [[spoiler:"[[BuffySpeak hearty]]"]] person he's ever met; the "show your arms" by the Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses crew has WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick pulling her wig instead of a weapon; WebVideo/PawDugan plays AmazingFreakingGrace on a kazoo -- which still sounds like a [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipe]] orchestra!)

* The tone of Irish wakes varies, but it's not uncommon for them to have a tenor that's more social than sombre. In particular, if the deceased lived a long, full life, a rowdy wake with music, stories, and drinking is seen as a sign of how beloved they were in the community.

* In the music video for "Helena" by Music/MyChemicalRomance 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.

* One ad for Spotify has band DNCE noticing that one user has their songs on a playlist called "Play This At My Funeral." Music/JoeJonas notes "That's a pretty messed up funeral." Cue ImagineSpot of pall bearers carrying a casket while simultaneously crying and dancing to one of their songs.

* Creator/GrahamChapman's death led to the CheerfulFuneral one would expect from Creator/MontyPython, with Creator/JohnCleese doing [[https://www.funeralwise.com/celebration-of-life/eulogy/chapman/ a very informal eulogy]] that started with a recollection of the Dead Parrot sketch and at times bordered on TheRoast, and Creator/EricIdle starting a singalong of [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life"]].

* At the funeral service for Creator/TerryThomas, the musical selections included the title theme for one of his films, ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''.

* In an early story arc from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Pig got a job as a funeral director. One strip involved a eulogy about how Fred was a good husband and a good man. Except his name was Bob. Another strip involved the casket falling into the grave and breaking...followed by the "corpse" yelling "Ow!"

* In the filler "Laughing Shino" arc of ''Manga/{{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 ū happen. [[TheStoic 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, it's later revealed that the father was still alive and the entire situation was an elaborate ruse; when his children were children, they were a pretty poor family, but were happy and laughed. However, when they discovered the valuable medical properties of the herbs around, they got greedy and forgot what was important, leading him to do this. Shino ends up pointing out the flukes in his plan before helping him pull it off.]]