“Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true. Just remember that the last laugh is on you,” sang Eric Idle in Monty Python’s ...

The jarring, mysterious death of Gene Hackman marks a tragic end ... enduring wit and charm and his sometimes “twisted sense of humor.” He said his friend was never ostentatious and did ...

Death not only has a sick sense of humor in this adaptation of the 1980 Stephen King short story included in his 1985 anthology, “Skeleton Crew,” it also has been studying Looney Tunes.