'THE JOKES AND DRINKS ARE ON ME!'

Turn off the gas to the crematorium

There’s been a terrible mistake

Apparently there’s a free bar 

At some poor joker’s wake

Fill in the hole at the cemetery ground

While I elbow a way to my first round

I’ve asked some friends from the morgue too

We’ve so much drinking left to do

So raise a glass to the dear departed

Whose life was really fab

I think I’ll leave before the music ends

Do put the the drinks on my tab

Bottoms up!

And three beers… sorry, cheers, for comedians!

HIP HIP! HOORAY!

HIP HIP! HOORAY!

HIP HIP! HOORAY!

Actually, I think I'd have preferrred three beers!

Michael Ashby (Sidmouth)

(Funeral poems for comedians, comics. Fun, humorous funeral poems.)