It’s Like Any Funeral in Philly

December 12th, 2006 | Category: Politics

I’m sure you know that Augusto Pinochet just died. By many accounts, he was a pretty bad guy, and like Kenneth Lay before him, he took the easy way out of a trial and sentencing by dying.

Still, his funeral sounds like it was a good time:

Defense Minister Vivianne Blanlot was noisily booed as she arrived as the government’s only representative at the military funeral for the general who supporters say saved Chile from communism by toppling an elected Marxist president and presiding over a hard-line government that killed thousands of foes.

Booing at a funeral is totally hilarious. Let me go on record as saying that, if I ever die, I want someone to get booed off stage during my funeral. Get a really horrible comedian to do a routine during the memorial, then just boo the shit out of him. It’ll be a lot of fun, and Rodney Dangerfield and I will have a good laugh.

- M.G.