The "Fun" in "Funeral" in Films and Animated Films.
Films — Animation:
- In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma ends the memorial service for Kuzco (who isn't really dead) by telling the assembled palace staff: "Well, he ain't gettin' any deader! Back to work!" Bonus points for how none of the staff even pretend to look upset.
- In Trolls, there is a flashback montage of Branch ruining several celebrations, where he shouts about the Bergens coming and tips something over a clown Troll who's present in all of them: a birthday party where he tips over a pile of presents, a wedding where he tips over a cake, and a funeral where he tips over the casket, letting the now-dead clown Troll roll out with a squeak noise.
Films — Live-Action:
- In Amazon Women on the Moon, 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 event was so much fun that the last scene of the sketch shows the funeral home's sign, telling passers-by that the funeral has been held over several weeks.
- Beer Fest begins in a dark room with a man playing a beer/coin game with a mob boss and his goons who nearly beat up the other guy... just kidding, it was the priest and his assistants. As the funeral begins, a TV is wheeled out to reveal the deceased giving a heartfelt and jolly eulogy from his hospital bed looking down on his open casket. He toasts and chugs several pints of beer during his speech. Once complete, he pulls his own plug and immediately flatlines while still on the TV screen.
- When the Dude and Walter go to scatter 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 almost instantly.
- The ending of Big Money Hustlas had Big Baby Sweets shooting up a funeral.
- 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', they 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 Peter Jackson's Braindead, Lionel's mother has been turned into a zombie, forcing him to sneak into the back during the funeral and pump her full of tranquilizers. He succeeds just as they both crash through the door into the service, forcing him to pass it off as a deranged act of grief.
- In Student Bodies, the funeral of the Breather's first victims includes an university band playing downtempo Ode to Joy, black balloons for decoration, cheerleaders with black pom-poms, and a principal giving a rousing, optimistic speech with no relation to funeral whatsoever.
- Clerks had a similar sketch, though in the original movie it was unseen. It was later animated in the Clerks: The Animated Series style, and rather hilarious.[Dante and Randal have just returned from a wake]
Dante: I can't fuckin' believe you!
Randal: I'm tellin' you, it wasn't my fault!
Dante: You knocked the casket over!
Randal: It was an accident!
Dante: Like somebody knocks a casket over on purpose!
Randal: It wasn't a big deal!
Dante: Her fuckin' body fell out!
Randal: Just put it back in. It's not like it matters if she breaks something! - The Comedy of Terrors embodies this trope. 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 caterwauling "he is not dead but sleepeth" (and the guest of honor isn't really dead), her singing so bad that even the cat turns away in disgust.
- The Northern Irish short Crashing The Wake has a man get beer spilled all over his good trousers the night before the funeral, so he robs the trousers off the man in the coffin. Once he's found out, he's made to walk to the funeral in his boxers.
- The entirety of the film Death at a Funeral. As the name would imply. Hijinks include: Alan Tudyk's character gets high on acid because he and his girlfriend thought it was Valium and eventually ends up wandering around naked on the roof, Peter Dinklage's character 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 shits on his bathroom assistant's hand when he sits on it. And he meant to do it.
- The first large action scene of Duel of the Ironfist has the main characters, a band of assassins and killers, barging a funeral procession of a rival mob boss, and then killing everyone present.
- Entr'acte is an early filmic example made by a bunch of wacky Frenchmen, with a long chase after a runaway coffin and a corpse who ends up standing up and walking off.
- Final Destination 5: The movie series is usually serious about funeral, but this one gets in some laughs when the speaker, the less-than-attentive company manager, is listing off names of the dead and accidentally names a survivor. The other two survivors next to him have some fun at the guy's expense.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral, Heather's family sings, Matt stumbles through a speech before being kicked offstage by John, and Joan breaks down and angrily berates her husband for being so heartless.
- 1984's The Funeral is a mostly light-hearted take on an extended family suddenly having to prepare for a funeral when one dies of a heart attack.
- 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.
- The cult film Harold and Maude features several darkly comedic funerals. In one notable scene, the procession exits the church just as a parade rounds the corner and marches cheerily by.
- Hero (1997) has an inverted example when protagonist Ma and his team of redshirts, in a funeral procession carrying the coffin containing the corpse of their mentor, barges into the main villain's parade, and quickly initiating a shootout with tons of people getting killed on both sides.
- In Hot Shots!, Dead Meat ends up dying. (Not a spoiler; they run him through any Death Trope that can apply.) At his funeral, Topper tries to offer some money to his widow... who just hit the lottery, and says she'll blow the cash on hats. Later, their C.O. mistakes the 21-gun salute for an enemy attack... and responds in kind.Admiral "Tug" Benson: [at said funeral, after throwing a hand grenade] I love a good funeral!
- In Johnny English, the titular character chases down a hearse that's holding a coffin which contains the crown jewels of the British throne, but inadvertently chases down the wrong car after the original hearse shakes him off. The new hearse he's following is carrying a corpse to a graveyard for a funeral. He questions the mourners and the priest
, thinking they're all actors engaged in a cover-up and paying remarkable attention to detail ("Real tears! Do you get paid extra for that?"). Bough shows up and stops English from further embarrassment by claiming to be a doctor from the "Lunatic Response Unit" here to recover "Gunter", who wasn't supposed to be let out until 2028. English goes along with the "escaped mental patient" cover ("fwbib, fwbib!") until they're out of sight. - 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.
- That, and the bomb is activated by pulling the dead mobster's (appropriately named Leo "the Fart") finger. And the whole assassination plot is summed up by the immortal line, "Leo the Fart is going to pass gas one last time."
- In Mel Brooks's film Life Stinks, 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.
- 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.
- Love Actually has a sombre funeral for Joanna, but her husband during the eulogy says that his wife told him he should bring Claudia Schiffer as his date. He also plays "Bye Bye Baby" over a photo montage of her, which his friend Karen can be seen chuckling at.
- 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.
- A Madea Family Funeral is all about Madea having to organize a funeral for a relative, so of course hijinks ensue. To start with, there's the awkward moment when the family realize that about 90 percent of the attendees to the funeral are women that the adulterous deceased had affairs with. Then, despite Madea's strict orders for everyone giving eulogies to keep them short to save time, they all end up being rambling and long-winded, causing the service to stretch on for hours. And finally, just as they get to the viewing of the body, the coffin suddenly pops open due to the deceased's persistent pre-mortem erection springing up again.
- 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... where he'd, apparently, requested a sing-a-long be performed by those in attendance. A very weird mix of Tear Jerker and this trope ensues.
- Men in Black 3 had the funeral of Agent Zed. The first part had K talk about not sharing a detail about his boss's life, which was around 3 sentences (and hyped to be a hell of a speech). The next speech was from Agent O (the new chief of MIB) telling what an alien said, in her native language. She spoke gibberish.
- 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 cremation service goes awry when:
- 1) The conveyer belt's motor shorts out, causing 2) the recording of Amazing Freaking Grace to play in reverse, along with 3) Causing the coffin to start moving away from the oven and towards the end of the belt. They try to keep the coffin from falling off the end, only for it to 4) Tip over onto its end, the lid popping open and 5) Coach Foley's body almost falling out, only to be caught by 6) Gary grabbing the Coach by the face and throwing him back in the coffin, only for 7) the belt to start moving the right direction, Gary's coat to get caught in the lid of the coffin when it slams shut, 8) Dragging him onto the conveyer belt with the casket and being dragged towards the oven, all while the grieving family sits and watches, horrified. All of this in a scene that again, lasts less than 30 seconds.
- In Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Ethan pursues Walker and ends up through St. Paul's Cathedral with the Apostles on his tail. He ends up disrupting a funeral in the process and has this to say while looking at the mourners apologetically.Ethan: I am terribly sorry.
- In an opening scene of 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.
- Early in Adam Sandler's Mr. Deeds, the funeral for Deeds' wealthy relative (the inheritance from whom forms the movie's premise) takes place, and Deeds insists on making it an open-casket affair — unfortunately the lid of the casket is the only thing preventing the old man's frostbitten body from bending back into the awkward position he was found in...
- My Girl uses this in a Crosses the Line Twice sort of way. The protagonists live in a funeral home, and the elderly mother is senile and has a habit of singing to herself. On the day of a funeral in the house, Vada is supposed to be watching her but Grandma gets up and walks into the funeral - and starts singing at the top of her voice. It's Played for Laughs.
- Premonition involves a corpse falling out of its coffin, but this is not supposed to be funny and is in fact used against the protagonist by concerned family members who think she's coming unhinged.
- Johnny's singing at his father's wake in Red Roses And Petrol.
- 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 delivers a moving performance while struggling to suppress his laughter by feigning Manly Tears. Meanwhile Clouseau sneaks into the burial in disguise and reveals his face to Dreyfus, who falls stunned into the grave.
- A brief moment during the elephant funeral scene in Santa Sangre. A public funeral is conducted, and the scene treads slightly into The "Fun" in "Funeral" territory, with the clowns crying Ocular Gushers before the elephant's carcass is thrown off and butchered by the homeless people.
- In The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Brad sings Dammit Janet in a church, while not noticing a child size coffin being carried out in the background. In the remake, he and Janet dance over various graves, completely oblivious to the funeral procession in the background.
- In Scary Movie 3 George mistakenly believes "wake" to mean the deceased is alive again and takes her out of the coffin as such. Mahalik comes in later to help his friend when people start attacking George for disturbing the body.George: Why is there an open casket?
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) - At the end of The Sisters Brothers, the brothers attend the funeral of the Commodore; not only are they the only attendees, but Eli punches the deceased to make sure he’s really dead.
- S.O.B. has the Viking funeral scene at the end. A very fitting send off to Felix.
- The western spoof Support Your Local Sheriff begins with a group of pioneers burying a man named Millard Frymore who joined their traveling party for two days before dropping dead of some unknown disease. The only music is supplied by a grizzled coot playing an accordion, some stray dogs cheerfully trample through the scene, and then someone notices gold in Millard's grave, leading to an all-out brawl. At least the poor guy got the eventual gold mine named after him.
- Tower of Death have Billy attending his friend Chin's wake, only for Chin's enemies stealing his casket with a helicopter equipped with an underbelly grappling-hook. And when Billy tries stopping the theft by jumping on the casket, he gets shot dead by a poisoned dart. What's even better is that Chin is Faking the Dead - the helicopter's occupants are his men.
- Toys. Appropriately, the deceased (a saint-like toy mogul) seems to be in on the fun. His son and daughter even take a bumper car in the funeral procession. It regularly bumped the car ahead then stopped until the car behind it hit it, and then during the eulogy the priest is interrupted by constant laughter coming from the coffin, caused by a laughing can toy.
- One of the advertisers for the station in UHF is one of these outfits.
- In Wedding Crashers, the protagonists' mentor (played by Will Ferrell) replaced "getting women at weddings" with "getting women in funerals". And he brings Owen Wilson along for a demonstration.
- In Werewolf by Night (2022), Ulysses Bloodstone had his corpse converted into an animatronic so that he could "attend" his own funeral.
- In a deleted scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Marvin Acme has a funeral with Foghorn Leghorn giving the eulogy and ending with the casket being lowered...and landing on a whoopee cushion. Everyone at the funeral, humans and toons alike, burst into laughter.
- The Victorian farce The Wrong Box culminates in a chase with a horse-drawn hearse carrying a trunk of ill-gotten money and another hearse with a not-at-all dead family member, which get tangled up with an actual funeral, the party of which holds another family member thought to be dead. Everyone ends up with the wrong hearse and they all converge at the funeral site. Hilarity Ensues.
- Undeclared War has a shootout taking place in an apartment... right next to a funeral parlor where a ritual is being performed for the deceased. The shootout quickly spills into the parlor, at which point the terrorists hijack a hearse and throw the coffin out at their police pursuers.
