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Funeral Ball

A Black Lady Sketch Show
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The setup

Bob the Drag Queen crashes his brother's somber funeral and turns it into a ballroom competition where mourners are scored on every familiar funeral archetype.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

As a grieving widow delivers a tearful eulogy for Claudatious, the late man's brother declares the service far too sad and transforms the church into the Funeral Ball. Under his commentary, guests walk the floor in categories built on funeral cliches: the uninvited soloist who cannot hold a note, the stranger who only came for the repast food, the relative who arrives in his gang colors and a fierce grandmother on a mobility scooter, while a panel of choir-robed judges holds up scores. The grand finale, for secret lives and secret wives, brings out the deceased's other woman and a line of look-alike children, sends the widow into a theatrical faint and ends with a will reveal that leaves the secret family out.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Honey, we're not in a Golden Corral. We're in mourning.

She's knocking on death's door, but she's wearing Dior.

She's mortified, but she's notarized!

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Funeral Ball is a follow-up to the show's Season 1 sketch The Basic Ball, again emceed by Bob the Drag Queen. Robin Thede has said many of its jokes were written by staff writer Shenovia Large.

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