I had my first good laugh only a day after my father-in-law died. Gary’s alcoholism had blown apart everything good around him, including his relationship with his son Jason, my husband. For years, ...

It happens every TV season: Perfect role meets perfect actor – and disaster ensues. When I heard that cuckoo comic Howie Mandel was going to play a goofy funeral director in the Fox sitcom Good Grief, ...

For a man who worked in the most somber of industries, Meade Vernon Rowe Sr. had a special knack for making people laugh. Rowe often projected his serious side as a businessman and devoted family man, ...

Humor to the end. I have this friend in Melbourne. Friends call her Gabriella. Nice lady. Funny. Got a million stories. Mostly true – from her own experience – on every subject under the sun, moon, ...

RALEIGH -- When you head inside the City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremations on Green Road in north Raleigh, it's clear immediately that it's not a typical funeral parlor. The business offers more ...

Despite our penchant for gross-out comedies, Americans do not have a monopoly on bad taste. Take "Death at a Funeral" -- please. Set in England, performed by Brits and directed by Frank Oz, an ...

When Rabbi Roy Walter was asked to eulogize Lester Smith, a well-known oil man and philanthropist who died last Thursday at age 76, two seemingly impossible scenarios came to mind. First, Rabbi Walter ...

FALL RIVER — Charles Auclair's visage was a serious one, stereotypically fitting for a funeral home director. But those who knew him are remembering Auclair as a warm, caring man with one great sense ...

A memorial service isn’t the most likely place to be reminded of why laughing matters so much in life – and in politics. But that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday in Washington when former Wyoming ...

WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Alan Simpson drew laughter from the gathered dignitaries Wednesday as he remembered some of the lighter moments from the time he spent over the years with his friend George ...