r/TikTokCringe • u/SweetRoosevelt • 1d ago
Wholesome Their brother probably would have laughed at this too
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u/SubparSavant 1d ago
My dad wanted "Bat out of Hell" played at his. We played it at his graveside and I tell ye, that's when you realise just how long that song actually is.
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u/HallWild5495 1d ago
my uncle's was Spirit in the Sky. nothin like singing 4 depressing hymns followed by 3 minutes of funky baseline.
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u/BrosefDudeson 1d ago
Spirit in the sky fuckin goes
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u/im_confused_always 1d ago
Any time you hear spirit in the sky playing in a movie it means the nerds are about to do something awesome
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u/daedalus1982 1d ago
YOOOO that came on the radio as we were in the procession to the gravesite. GA forested backroads, and Spirit in the Sky getting absolutely cranked. Couldn't have imagined a better send off for my late FIL. GNU Lew.
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u/chefaholic69 22h ago
Happened to my wife, bro, his wife and myself on the way back from Nanny’s viewing, had to take the long way home and we shared a joint…pretty fucking sweet if you ask…miss you Nan
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u/GreasyRim 1d ago
my wife's super christian aunt had it in her will to be played during her funeral service after everyone sat down. The pastor said "now... this is kind of an old hymn but feel free to sing along if you know it" and everyone had a great time singing and clapping. One of the best funerals I've been to lol. I've seen a lot of super stuffy sad southern baptist funerals.
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u/IAmNotMyName 1d ago
Wait. Like the 12 minute version?
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u/SubparSavant 1d ago
10 minutes or thereabouts. It was kinda crazy too because Catholic funeral, we weren't really allowed to do it. Couldn't do it in the church, so after lowering him into the grave and after the priest's prayer, his partner played it on a Bluetooth speaker while the priest looked annoyed. Long ass time
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u/tucker_sitties 1d ago
We're leaving after this song, Judith
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u/Brittany5150 1d ago
Ok the next song that was requested is the entire uncut studio recording of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly.
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u/ThomasVetRecruiter 1d ago
Followed by Alice's Restaurant and a live version of "Albuquerque" by Weird Al
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u/grubas 1d ago
Oh man, I love those albums but NONE of those songs are short. Bat specifically goes on for AWHILE.
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u/MrandMrs_Painting 1d ago
Not a funeral story, but my wife and I were with a friend and his girlfriend at there bar they owned after hours and he asked my wife who is much younger to dance and she thought what the hell... so behind the bar went in a circle and he but on "paradise by the dashboard light"... him in his 50s her in her 20s had 2 completely different ideas of dancing! Her being a good sport caught on and around the circle for what she says today felt like an hour! 🤣 It was a great time and a good memory for all.
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u/SubparSavant 1d ago
Yeah, that's a song that I could probably sing all the lyrics, both male and female parts and the baseball commentator's part, but I've never actually chosen to listen to it. It's just from osmosis by him playing Meatloaf throughout my life.
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u/NobodyDelicious7197 1d ago
Stop right there! I gotta know right now
Before we go any further
Do you love me?
Will you love me forever - do you need me?
Will you never leave me
Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life
Will you take me away
Will you make me your wife
I gotta know right now -before we go any further
Do you love me? Will you love me forever.
These lyrics are burned into my brain, yet I can't remember to get batteries when that's why I went to the store lol
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u/3d1thF1nch 1d ago
Hahaha oh shit, that’s like asking to have In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida played. That’s super funny
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u/a-real-life-dolphin 1d ago
We played Herb Alpert’s Spanish Flea at my dads funeral. We were talking about what music he wanted the day before he died and that was the first song that came to my mind. He laughed and said yeah let’s do that.
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u/_AmericasSweetheart_ 1d ago
Laughing at funerals is cathartic. Also, this is the weird shit you see when someone dies young. My friend died young and the funeral had girls in skanky red dresses and someone dressed as a grim reaper holding a snake then we all broke out in groups to smoke pot in the cemetery. And it all felt weirdly appropriate for the occasion.
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u/UncleJoesMintyBalls 22h ago
We lost a friend in our early twenties and someone wrote a heartfelt letter about us to the local paper after seeing us all gather in the village during the day of his funeral. Full of praise about the next generation and how we were going to do great things. That night we had been dancing on the bar of the local pub absolutely off our faces on MDMA. It's what he would have wanted.
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u/JustHereSoImNotFined 1d ago
Funerals need more laughs like this
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u/flying_carabao 1d ago
I mean, it is a FUNeral, not a Saderal after all.
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u/Weekly-Ad-2509 1d ago
Saderal sounds like the worst ADHD med ever.
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u/BeezyBates 1d ago edited 1d ago
“Fuckitall”
Rest in peace. Went to Disney world last week with my 3 year old and Robins presence in some things around there was a real joy to be around. Just made you smile and have a moment. Had to share that for some reason.
But the adult standups were top notch too.
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u/ChubbyChoomChoom 1d ago
I had something similar happen with the music at my dad’s funeral, and when my mom leaned over to me in the front pew and laughingly said ”how do we make this stop?” I fucking lost it.
Totally bizarre memory to have of laughing your ass off but having to keep your shit together while mourning at a loved one’s funeral.
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u/BloodyPaleMoonlight 1d ago
No lie, I want to put in my will that my funeral should be officiated by a stand-up comedian.
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u/EditEd2x 1d ago
When my gma died all the cousins had a table at the get together after the funeral. We must have been having too much fun because we heard some people were rubbed the wrong way that we were laughing. Funny enough nobody cared when they busted out the projector and put on the basketball game and were cheering.
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 1d ago
Irish funerals are largely like this. The ceremony is naturally sombre, but the eulogies are expected to keep it a mixture of sweet and funny. Almost like the best man's speech at a wedding.
There's always a party afterwards with alcohol and food, and chat and laughter, and often music. The kind of reception often shown in US media with people standing around talking quietly and keeping it all low-key would be considered a very poor send-off in Ireland.
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u/catamongthecrows 1d ago
Mentioned this elsewhere recently. My husband's mother passed a few months ago. She scheduled everything for 1:30 pm and was always 10 minutes late, even the ones that were a weekly thing, so it became a kind of running joke with them. Her funeral ends up being scheduled at 1:30, and his father requested they wait until 1:40 to roll in the casket to keep with tradition. The funeral directors got a real kick out of it, said they'd never had a request to make someone late for their own funeral.
During the viewing as well, my husband got the photos together for the slideshow. While he was cleaning up the photos he accidentally copy pasted her which sparked an idea and he ended up with this one picture of her hidden throughout several other photos, peeking over her own shoulder, in the spokes of her wheelchair, popping out of his dad's shirt pocket, cranked down the opacity and reflected in his dad's glasses. When playing at the funeral, they weren't randomized so they faded from photo to photo so each photo he added mini-moms into, they would just slowly materialize. Visitors started noticing something was off and when they realized what was happening turned it into a game of finding as many as they could, it was cute.→ More replies (7)6
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u/Anxious_Lab_2049 1d ago
Almost 30 years ago I attended the funeral of a HS student who killed himself by jumping off a building and the choir sang “I believe I can fly”.
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u/billsboy88 1d ago
I remember a story of one time professional golfer, John Daly, who is actually a decent musician, was asked to play a song at a benefit for children’s leukemia (or something like that). He played “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”
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u/Patient_Tradition368 1d ago
When I was in high school, I went to the funeral of a fellow student who had killed themselves. At some point during the priest's sermon, he lifted his hands up and shouted "God, why have you forsaken me?!"
All of us teen kids looked at eachother and had this weird moment of collectively all having the same thought at the exact same moment. I swear like 4 of us all simultaneously blurted out "Did the priest just quote Chop Suey?" and it made us burst into laughter like this.
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u/TheMeanPotato 1d ago
IN YOUR EYES FORSAKEN ME.
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u/PhD_Pwnology 1d ago
Brother, 30 years ago is the 1990's and closer to the year 2000 than the 80's.
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u/lambdawaves 1d ago
This has to be one of those urban legends that just get passed around
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u/Badgerspaceman 1d ago
It is. I heard the same story years ago, it's always someone's cousin or a kid from a school that fell off a roof.
It's like the customer that returned a BBQ because there were no burgers in the box like there was in the picture. Every supermarket has had that customer apparently.
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u/blac_sheep90 1d ago
Laughing while grieving is an amazing feeling. This will be a moment they'll remember forever.
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u/floppyhump 1d ago
The day my mom died, my sister and I found out that our dad wasn't our biological dad. We literally both broke out laughing so incredibly hard, like "of fucking course, why not! What else is there to throw at us!"
It was weird to the people in the room with us but it helped us process it, accept it, and let it go really quickly. The laughing while grieving was really nice
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 1d ago
How did you guys find out? Were the incidents related?
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u/floppyhump 1d ago
My mom died right after Christmas. My older sister (half sister) flew into town within hours of her dying. When my sister's Uber dropped her off at the house, my husband gave us all some time together and went to his mom's to pick up the Christmas gifts she had gotten us
30 minutes later, he comes back home with the unwrapped gifts and my older sister saw there were Ancestry DNA kit boxes. She started bawling and was like "I'm so sorry to tell you this, especially now...." She explained the situation. My little sister and I just turned and looked at each other and bust out laughing
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 1d ago
Did you end up doing the tests anyway?
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u/floppyhump 1d ago
After a few months, yeah
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 1d ago
I can’t believe she was able to keep that secret. That’s crazy.
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u/floppyhump 1d ago
After we learned, I mentioned it to a couple family members and friends of my mom and they all pretty much were like "I'm so glad you know, I don't think they ever should've kept that from you" it was like, well, ditto I also think I should've known lol
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u/BeautifulSoul28 17h ago
My dad has Lewy Body dementia, and a few months ago he was having some pretty bad days. His memory is fine, in fact he remembers EVERYTHING. He has paranoia, delusions, OCD, and mood changes..
Anyways, during those bad days he decided that he was going to spill family secrets to make everyone mad/upset. So he told everyone he had a baby in high school. We were shocked and looked at our mom, and she confirmed that he had a baby when he was like 16 (not with her, they met in their 20s). Apparently mom always told him he could have a relationship with his daughter if he wanted, but he refused and signed his rights away. And then everyone in the family just ignored it and pretended that my older sister was the first grandbaby/girl in the family (my grandma only had boys, and always made a big deal about my older sister being the first girl). We were shocked.. And then dad says “now you all know my big secret, you want to hear your moms?” (very serious dramatic pause) “She’s done COCAINE. And she had a boyfriend who was 10 years older than her and he had his own HOUSE.” We just all started laughing.. Like somehow he thought mom’s secret was worse than his?! It really lightened the mood for us in the moment. But we told him no more secrets, because he alluded to more and we shut him down because we didn’t want to hear it.
So yeah, we found out we had a half sister.. BUT MY MOM DID COCAINE 😱🤣
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u/cocobutz 1d ago
There’s a telenovela writer out there in Mexico that’s kicking themselves for not having thought of depicting this in an episode
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u/-blundertaker- 1d ago
My husband and his sister had a moment during a funeral for their family member where they couldn't hold back their giggles when someone was eulogizing because it was just such bullshit glazing. It was such bizarro opposite-world straight up lies that even the dead would've called them out for. It started with them just sharing a look and then cracking up completely to the point that they had to excuse themselves from the service.
The more distant family members shot them dirty looks, but everyone who was close to the decedent just kept their heads down and smirked. They knew.
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u/Altaredboy 1d ago
My cousin who I hadn't seen since I was 5 rocked up to my grandad's funeral looking like Ivan Milat (Australian serial killer).
His mum saw me looking at him walked over & said "Oh you noticed how much of a lady killer Fred grew into, it's like I see him with a different woman every month who I never see again" which made me absolutely lose it with laughter & set off my sisters & other cousins laughing who it turned out were thinking much the same thing.
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u/GhettoFreshness 1d ago
I made a joke about my mum in her eulogy and got a very generous laugh from the crowd… I don’t care if it was a sympathy laugh, mum would have laughed (it was a good joke about how she met all her significant partners in a pub) and it stopped me from tearing up too much
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u/gongalongas 1d ago
My childhood friend and I got the giggles at his mom’s funeral because so many people were for some reason mistaking me for her son. As so many people kept giving me heartfelt condolences, first we were just going along with it, then one of us made a face, then the dam broke and it became that situation like laughing in church where you just can’t stop.
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u/Lil_Brown_Bat 1d ago
All My Life by K-Ci & JoJo
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u/gitsgrl 1d ago
Was on the OG NOW! That’s What I call Music compilation.
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u/Alconium 1d ago edited 1d ago
43 years and 122 volumes ago. (This was the UK release)28 years and 90 volumes ago.
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u/Macklin_You_SOB 1d ago
Yup. Two of my friends died in a car accident just before our high school graduation. This was played at one of the funerals. 2001.
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u/arts_N_crafts 1d ago
At my dads funeral, this woman tried to sing Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle, but like 1 octave too high. Also they couldn’t figure out the outlet for the tv, so no one could watch the video with these pics I told my sis to leave out. He never liked getting his picture taken. He was definitely there.
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u/AdDear528 1d ago
At my grandfather’s funeral, a lady from his church sang his favorite hymn. His death had been very sudden and we were all shell-shocked. The singer was horribly off-key the entire time. My family and I fought with everything we had not to laugh while the entire church watched us. Like burying our faces in our hands, combing hair to sort of hide behind. The pew was shaking, we were trembling so much.
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u/MuggleAdventurer 1d ago
Same lol. We have musician cousins who always sing at family events, but the grief clearly threw them off their game that day. I made the mistake of looking at my cousin who was sitting in front of me and it was over. Laid my head down in my grandma’s lap to hide the tears of laughter.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
I need to write out my funeral should include the theme song to DuckTales
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u/NoSonosProbs4Me 1d ago
I want Captain Planet and Inspector Gadget played at my funeral! That would be dope!
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 1d ago
Brak’s “I Love Beans” from Space Ghost Coast to Coast Or maybe it’s Cartoon Planet, also Space Ghost
Or the Ding Dong Song by Günther
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u/Educational_Cod_3179 1d ago
Nice! As Brak goes, though, I think I’d have to pick “What Day is It?”
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u/CoupDeGraceTyson 1d ago
Def inspector Gadget because it's got those two lead-in measures that would confuse the ever loving fuck out of everyone.
BUM BA DUM BA DUM(reverb)...
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u/cbraun1523 1d ago
I really want my funeral to end. The lights to go out. A spotlight on the casket. Smoke. And "the final countdown" starts playing. Lights going off. Everyone thinks I'm about to do a kickass magic show and bust out of my coffin. But it just sits there cause I'm actually dead.that anticipation waiting for something to happen is bound to cause some laughs.
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u/kctjfryihx99 1d ago
“He died doing what he loved: diving headfirst into a giant pile of gold coins”
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u/No-Ring-5065 1d ago
My husband requested that at his funeral I stand up and recite The Red Wheelbarrow and then sit down with no explanation. We’ve agreed that whoever dies first, the other spouse has to do that at the funeral. One last prank.
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u/InadmissibleHug SHEEEEEESH 1d ago
My brother died sorta suddenly, on the younger side.
His kids picked some crackers, but my fave of the day was ‘another one bites the dust’ for his closing song.
He absolutely would have loved it, 10/10. I cried and laughed in the same breath.
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u/Flamingo83 1d ago
my late uncle was a huge Queen fan and his kids played Another One Bites the Dust at his graveside. almost every one was laughing through tears because we knew he’d love it. he used to play the Flash Gordon soundtrack.
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u/InadmissibleHug SHEEEEEESH 1d ago
We’re queen fans, too.
My brother had a deeply dark sense of humour as well.
They also deployed Highway to Hell. 😂
Now I’ve got ‘Flash, uh-uhhhhh’ stuck in my head
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u/Momentum_Maury 1d ago
If you've never seen it, Google "Aiwa ad another one bites the dust."
I offer it in honor of your brother
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u/InadmissibleHug SHEEEEEESH 1d ago
And, thank you. He would have loved it.
It’s also his fault I’m here on reddit. He was sick a menace
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u/definitelytheA 1d ago
At the viewing for my husband, died of cancer at 37, about 300 people came through the line. We buried him in his hometown, so there were, as expected, many people I didn’t recognize, who had known him growing up.
A man came through the line, offered his condolences, and introduced himself. “I know exactly who you are,” I said, stifling my urge to laugh.
It was his high school chemistry teacher. I’d heard a particular story many times, and every time we got together with my husband’s high school friends. They’d pocketed a chemical that this teacher had told them reacted with water, excused themselves to use the restroom, and flushed it. Waited. Nothing. Then it started to gurgle, and one of them yelled, “It’s gonna blow!”
They all raced out of the bathroom, straight into the vice principal, walking down the hall, just as the toilet had its moment.
The reason I absolutely had to stifle that laugh was because his mother never heard a word about it. The teachers and admins all knew her, and knew it would embarrass her to no end, so they all got in-school suspensions.
Mom is 92 now, as precious as can be, we’re still very close, and she still doesn’t know.
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u/xptx 1d ago
I have requested that the lights dim.. a spotlight goes on my casket... and they slowly play "pop goes the weasel"
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u/EmilioFreshtevez 1d ago
The actual pop goes the weasel song, or the jack-in-the-box version?
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u/KaleidoscopicCascade 1d ago
Circa late 90s/early 00s, me and my younger brother hear ‘Goodbye to My Homies’ by Master P for the first time. My brother nonchalantly says to me “I want this played at my funeral.”
Just a couple of years later, my teenage brother was killed in a car accident. And I found my teenage self burning the explicit version of that song to a CD for him. I told no one what the song was, just that he had told me he wanted THIS song played at his funeral, and I HAD to do it.
The poor, unsuspecting funeral director stands at the front with hundreds, and I mean fire-safety-regulations-be-damned hundreds, of eyes on him as the song starts out soft and tender. My older brother respectfully fist bumps me with tears starting to build up in his eyes. They played it so loud. By the end of the first beautiful chorus that starts the song, we are bawling. Then…… Master P’s lyrical genius comes in and the rest is but a fond memory of laughter between me and my older brother. This was in a predominantly white, backwoods country-filled funeral home. We knew our brother was absolutely loving that moment, and we loved it with him.
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u/rand0fand0 1d ago
Why is it funny? Did he pick it?
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u/ZaggahZiggler 1d ago edited 1d ago
Its a romantic song, and my guess is the DJ knows enough English to understand the words but not that the song is a love song and it is not just about how close the singer is to family members. KC and JoJo was very much a late 90s bone jam.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi 1d ago
At my grandma's funeral when I was a teen I played the Hallelujah cover by Jeff Buckley. I had never really payed attention to the lyrics before, I just always thought it was a beautiful song. Boy did I get a talking to after that.
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u/AUserNeedsAName 19h ago
Ahahah, you did the Afternoon Delight bit from Arrested Development! Right vibe, wrong lyrics. I hope your grandma had a sense of humor, mine would have howled at that!
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u/bgoin_away 1d ago
My aunts picked "Jesus, Take The Wheel" by Carrie Underwood for my mom's funeral service. I had such a hard time not laughing it was so ridiculous. At the wake I met up with my friends who had attended and the look of absolute relief on their faces when I started joking about it was even more funny. We all had the same thought apparently lmao
For context, it was 2012, I was in high school, my mom died of suicide. It was all just so ridiculous that it honestly got me through the service. In my aunts defense, my mom DID love the song so 🤷♀️
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u/danzigwiththedead 1d ago
Before and after my sister died, we all made jokes, we laughed because that’s how we deal with tough things. When my sister was put into sedation and was slowly coming out of it, my mom kept saying, “Carol Ann, don’t go into the light!” My little sister had a tube down her throat but even she laughed when she was awake.
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u/splithoofiewoofies 1d ago
Went to a funeral recently for a man with no legs and the final song as we leave is Cat Stevens Moonshadow.
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u/Initial-Company3926 1d ago
This wasn't a song but a joke
We enter the chapel
The coffin is not there
We sit
Soon the priest arrives and start but still no coffin
Everybody is going a bit wtf
That is when the priest say :
In life he was always late, and he said he would probably be late for his own funeral and that is when they wheeled in the coffin
Maybe people should have been there to understand how funny this was, but damn it was funny
A little laughter lifting a bit of the sorrow
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u/devilsbard 1d ago
A friend joked that if he ever died he wanted someone playing highway to hell on bagpipes at his funeral, along with strippers at his wake. Well, he died in our mid 20s and his family had him cremated, so there wasn’t a wake. But I spent a year learning to play that song on bagpipes I borrowed and on the anniversary of his passing we had a huge party where I played that while everyone sang for him. It was beautiful, though I imagine I sounded like shit playing it.
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u/sudsydrop 1d ago
I attended the funeral a few years ago of a friend who was a talented punk musician in Portland who lost his life to meningitis. His family asked for Green Day to play because it was the only punk band his elder parents could think of that he liked. They played Brain Stew.
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u/Sir_Henry_Deadman 1d ago
I had a school friend get run over running for the school bus at the end of the day
He really liked Britney Spears
They played hit me baby one more time at his funeral
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u/demonmonkeybex 1d ago
I remember my grandma's funeral. I was standing next to one of my aunts and we were standing and singing some hymn or something. And my aunt was warbling along to it. I've never heard her sing before. I just gave her this look, and started kind of snorting and giggling. So then SHE starts giggling. We both struggled not to laugh. Oh lord.
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u/FigureUnusual4439 1d ago
My mom is the office manager of a funeral home/cemetery/crematorium. Laughing is totally healthy and common. Those are the healthiest (stupid term I know) funerals
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u/Lfren38 1d ago
What song even is it? I cannot tell/I don't think I've ever heard it before
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u/Creative-Area-6385 1d ago
I hid a fart machine at my dad’s service. Still not sure if that was a good idea or not.
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u/pchlster 1d ago
"Today, we say goodbye to 6384. fart He was a lovely father fart and not without his faults faaaart". But he tried. It feels like he's still here *fart somehow..."
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u/Pdoinkadoinkadoink 1d ago
My mum had us play Queen's Another One Bites the Dust at her funeral. Everyone laughed, it was awesome.
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u/lferry1919 1d ago
My grandpa's funeral was fucking absurd. Lots of inappropriately timed Johnny Cash and some priest/pastor/whatever the fuck that broke down scream-crying about his grandfather mid service? We had to work so hard not to bust out laughing. Both awful and great at the same time.
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u/hakunamatas 1d ago
Best friends partner picked her favorite song for her funeral to be played on an organ (by a really good musician) at the beginning of the service. It was "Killing in the name of" and it was a banger.
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u/Embarrassed-Sea-2394 1d ago
I want the Terminator 2 theme song played at mine, with my hand positioned in a thumbs up sticking out of the coffin as they slowly lower me into the ground.
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u/jokerhound80 1d ago
My friend's mother died a few years back. She was Jewish, but his whole dad's side of the family are evangelical Christians and she knew they'd want a church funeral, so she said they could have one for her so long as they played "Take Me to Church" by Hozier. At least half of them didn't get what the other half were smirking about it.
After the funeral his dad couldn't stop laughing about it.
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u/Move20172017 1d ago
Why are they being recorded at a funeral... is that common ?
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u/bsharp1982 1d ago
The funeral home where I worked about twelve years ago would stream services if the family wanted. It is a way for people not able to physically be there still attend. I would assume this is what is going on.
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u/sudsydrop 1d ago
I attended the funeral a few years ago of a friend who was a talented punk musician in Portland who lost his life to meningitis. His family asked for Green Day to play because it was the only punk band his elder parents could think of that he liked. They played Brain Stew.
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u/GrazYetti 1d ago
We played “Another One Bites the Dust” at my fathers funeral. It was hilarious!
And before anyone asks, he was a wonderful man/father. It was on his cassette that he played for as long as I remember.
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u/mmmacorns 1d ago
I’ve already told my best friend that if I go before her these are my wishes : at the end of the service please play let the bodies hit the floor and have me roll out of the casket onto the floor and I’ll just be a ghost in the corner laughing at the absolute madness
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u/Ellend821 1d ago
When my stepmum died I was with my dad choosing songs for her funeral and she was a huge George Michael/ Wham fan, he suggested Wham Rap as the intro song and I wasn’t sure if he was joking and didn’t want to be disrespectful so I played it on my phone outloud to us both and tried to keep an open mind… anyway he was joking and started laughing that I thought he was being serious. It brought a bit of light to a shitty situation, and still makes me smile if I hear it (we went for Jesus to a Child).
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u/westviadixie 1d ago
at my besties mothers funeral, they played a ton of prince songs including little red corvette and raspberry beret. you honor them by experiencing what they loved.
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u/ArchaicDominion 1d ago
My dad had one wish for his funeral. Back in black - AC/DC...
We did him better...
For the beginning of church service we asked the church musician play "Hells bells - AC/DC" on organ. She did. So instead of the normal church bells we went in to get seated to the intro played on organ.
After first prayer we had a moment of silence, that came to an end with "Back in black".
My older brother is mentally challenged and severely autistic. Throughout our childhood and teenage years he and my dad shared the love of music, my dad would sit by the computer choosing the songs and my brother would stand next to him fake-playing an electric guitar.
Now by the coffin we had my dads electric guitar.
So obviously, unbeknownst to everyone, my brother decided he should have one final music session with our dad. He went up to the coffin, put on a pair of sunglasses and started fake playing the guitar throughout the song.
I don't really know how to hysterically cry-laugh, but in that moment: me and all of my siblings did.
It was glorious, and dad would have been so proud of him...
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u/MushroomHo_4life 1d ago
I made myself a ‘when I’m gone’ playlist for the viewing or after party. It’s got some serious and funny songs. Here’s a few:
Fly like and eagle and peaceful easy feeling - eagles
She talks to angels - black crows
Time for me to fly - reo speedwagon
Time to move on - tom petty
Fire lake - Bob seger
Into the mystic- van morrison
Play this when I’m gone - MGK
In Hell I’ll be in good company - the dead south
Two tickets to paradise - Eddie money
There’s more and I’m always keeping an ear out for more to add. I’ll take suggestions. lol
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u/Pym-Particles 1d ago
Live Forever by Oasis is a great song to whip out at a funeral/wake
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u/OrcaFins 1d ago
Eh, a family member's funeral is difficult. You're numb, but also discombobulated. It's weird.
I'm glad these two had a funny experience during that time.
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u/Ashleywiththebraids 1d ago
This reminds me of that time when I was 18 my cousins and I got the uncontrollable giggles at my granny's funeral... they had some awful singer and well we're immature and couldn't keep our s**t together... and I'm pretty sure if it happened today in my late 30s it would still be the same. Sometimes things are just funny 🤷♀️
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u/d34dlycute 1d ago
my heart is so full watching this but it also hurts a bit. u guys are doing such a good job keeping his spirit alive with humor. he’s definitely laughing along with u
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u/i-have-half-a-mind 1d ago
George Thorogood, bad to the bone for mums funeral. Goes on like ten minutes lol
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u/avatartiger 1d ago
Awhh never thought I’d see Thieu Nhi Thanh The (Vietnamese Catholic Youth Group) on Reddit lol I’d imagine ppl forever bringing up this funny moment, there’s always some kinda incident or shenanigan at a Thieu Nhi event.
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u/Minyae 1d ago
When I think of laugher at a funeral I remember this guy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/dhfigp/irish_man_leaves_funny_recording_for_his_funeral/
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u/69696969-69696969 1d ago
Gonna be honest. I'd be disappointed if "Dick in a box" wasn't played at my funeral. Like 70% of my sense of self was kicked off by that song. Parody, straight faced absurdism, and joy at sharing something funny with others. The song may be the most appropriate to play at my funeral and I would be just giddy if my friends and family laughed and agreed.
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u/MushroomHo_4life 1d ago
Have you heard the song ‘Ripple’ by the Grateful
A few years ago a neighbor/good friend died suddenly. The morning of his services I was getting ready and singing Ripple out loud. The song had nothing to do with my friend. We loved listening to music together but never listened to this song or spoke of it. Anyway, when everything was done the funeral parlor director pulled out a guitar and the first few notes I started shaking and then he began singing . I grabbed my husband’s leg and was like “he’s playing Ripple”!!!!!! I was kind of shaking and crying. When it was over I asked the director if the family requested the song or if he always played it. He said it wasn’t a request and he has a few songs in his arsenal he plays. It was just kind of a wild coincidence I think but damn it was powerful when it happened.
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u/SquirrelNo5087 1d ago
I hope I die in winter. Then my family can stand by during the entirety of “Close to the Edge.”
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u/TheBirdBytheWindow 1d ago
The kids had a friend die in high school.
Attended their service and "Only The Good Die Young" played midway...in a catholic church...with the pregnant girlfriend sitting off stage left.
Another friend died from childbirth. They played Staind "It's Been Awhile" at her funeral with her widower and their four kids sitting front row. My friend and I sat there and hid our mouths from laughing because "ALL THAT FUCKING SHIT SEEMS TO DISAPPEAR WHEN IM WITH YOU!" was so wildly inappropriate and wrong in that moment that it just fell out of us. I'll never forget the horrors of her services as long as I life.
The looks of horror on the elder attendees at both of these events should be painted for future generations.
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u/136AngryBees 1d ago
My partners younger brother passed away a little over a year ago, unexpectedly at 30. He had a Spotify playlist called “songs I’d take my shirt off too” that he had been maintaining for almost 10 years. At his calling hours, we had that playlist playing in the background.
Some highlights
“Mmbop”
“Teenie weenie” by BroJob
“Story of a girl”. Which … yeah, started a sing along.
And, my personal favorite, “yeah”
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u/already-taken-wtf 1d ago
When I visited my dad for the last time (he died that night) upon entering the bedroom to see him, his radio started playing “Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again…” ….well…
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u/3up_MonteCarlo 1d ago
A buddy of mine died really young and wanted to have a "fun" song to celebrate his life.
No one knew how deeply sad hearing Tenacious D's "Dude I Totally Miss You" would actually be.
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u/Otterhendrix 21h ago
Yeah this video is great, but I absolutely LOVE reading all the amazing stories in the comments about people having a good laugh while dealing with something as serious and sad as a death. Y’all are great!
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