A couple of nights ago, over a drink with friends, we started trying to think up humorous funeral songs. Forget the meaningful, beautiful songs you’ve been planning to go out to your entire life – we wanted pure humour. After deliberating over fourteen minute long songs (your funeral guests getting bored and impatient, while still flushed with sadness writes its own jokes), we came up with our winner. Hit it!
It’s good, but we reckon there’s better out there. Leave links and suggestions in the comments below, and help us put the fun back into… well, you know the rest.
I hoped it would never have to come to this – but I’m going to have to start this article with a disclaimer. Thankfully no vicars, small boys, or indeed small girls form a part of this dissociation.
Disclaimer – I have never met, spoken to, written to, seduced, followed, or in any other way communicated with the red-haired genius behind the following videos. I just think they’re great.
The Elegant Guide is a six-part web comedy series written and presented by Ella Morton.
“Ella is a writer, actor and host with a penchant for absurdity and a fondness for dispensing questionable advice. She is the New York correspondent for the popular daily web show Rocketboom and maintains Sprinkle of Ginger, a blog about creativity, inspiration and social awkwardness.”
I’ll pull myself back from spinning lines such as “The Elegant Guide is refreshingly funny”, or “The Elegant Guide is a breath of fresh air”, simply because that’s lazy journalism, and this is certainly not. Journalism.
What I will say is I’ve watched all three of the currently released episodes several times each now, and they get a laugh each time. So go on, give in to the Elegant Guide.
Benjamin Spall lives to laugh. He does little else. Only Logical compromises of commentaries and compositions written on a semi-regular basis. For further information, visit the about page.
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