No thank you, Ms. Ritter, I just don’t feel comfortable doing this, but I do appreciate your efforts in trying to incorporate me into the service.” One would assume that a polite refusal to play ...

Commentator Brian Egeston says that for a while he became good at delivering funny funeral speeches. Then one day he bombed, and a cousin who followed got all the laughs. He can't quite figure what ...

Directors’ contributions to theatrical productions generally go unnoticed, since most audiences are incapable of discerning the subtle workings that often elevate the transition from the page to the ...

Ron Young as a not-so-lovable relative. Desert Theatreworks has opened its 2018-19 season with a hilariously funny production of SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL. A clever script, great acting by the ensemble ...

Yes, even death can be funny. At least in the United Kingdom. With a macabre parade resembling Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" and several episodes of "Monthy Python's Flying Circus" blended ...

Funerals generally aren’t funny. Funerals in the south, however, can be entertaining. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, author of “Being Dead is No Excuse” and “Some Day You’ll Thank Me for This,” ...

Paul McCartney has decided that he wants his friends and family to celebrate his life rather than mourn him when he dies by holding a "funny" funeral. The Beatles legend insisted that when the time ...