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Elton John's Funeral Services
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In a send-up of late-night TV commercials, a narrator surveys mourners dozing through a lifeless funeral and offers an upgrade: for a limited time, Elton John (Will Sasso) will rewrite his classic songs for your loved one and perform them beside the casket. Seated at a piano next to the priest, Elton bids farewell to an accountant uncle and then belts reworked versions of hits such as Rocket Man and Crocodile Rock about a lineman electrocuted on the power lines, a shooting and a fitness-minded dad felled by a stroke, while the narrator promises the service will be the social event of the season. Grieving guests including Alex Borstein and Aries Spears go from dabbing their eyes to singing along, and the funeral turns into a dance party with beach balls bouncing over the pews as an order card asks for $200,000 sent to Funeral Wizard in Atlanta and warns that Elton may take weeks to arrive.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
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Highly quotable.
Let Elton John rock you to your grave.
Please allow six to eight weeks for Elton John to arrive.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Morris Abraham
Director
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Speaker 1
You've lost a loved one family and friends have gathered to pay their last respects How many times has this happened to you boy this funeral really blows? Pretty dull, huh? Don't your loved ones deserve something better than this when they pass on well, why not try?
- 00:25
Wow! Wow, John.
- 00:27
Speaker 1
Yes it is for a limited time Elton John will rewrite his classic songs and fly in to perform them for your deceased
- 00:34
Elton John
Goodbye, Uncle Herb. You were the best accountant in Miami Beach. Now you're in a better place where the IRS can't
- 00:48
Speaker 1
Let Captain Fantastic express your grief with words and music that will touch your heart forever.
- 00:54
Elton John
And he worked the power lines a long, long time Fell down, hit the ground before he died But weren't the wires he thought they were at all He was a socket man Socket man Burning out his brain so you can claw
- 01:14
Speaker 1
Let Elton John rock you to your grave
- 01:17
Elton John
He took the skins by nine, he really blew the line So they pumped five slugs through his spleen. Oh. L-L-L-Lanny and his pets.
- 01:30
Speaker 1
Yes, your loved one's funeral will be the social event of the season. You'll wish more relatives would die just to hear Elton's tribute.
- 01:38
Elton John
Don't you know that Dad's not breathing? Never, ever had a smoke. exercise break. Exercised regularly, then he got hit by a stroke. Just stop breathing. Da, da, da. Hey, sing along. Just stop breathing. Da, da, da.
- 01:58
Elton John ?
Yes, any night's all right for Diane.
- 02:01
Elton John
Well, the biggest kick we ever had was dancing to the Burning Dead. While dad was sleeping, mama poured out the gas. We were singing and prancing while we burned up the saps. Yeah.
- 02:14
Speaker 1
Just send $200,000 to Funeral Wizard, P.O. Box 943-501, Atlanta, Georgia. Please allow six to eight weeks for Elton John to arrive.
- 02:24
Elton John ?
Come on, everybody, let's party!
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