"Klein showed funny funeral scenes in movies such as Steel Magnolias, and brought down the house with a clip from the Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” Mary chides another mourner at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown: "This is a funeral. A man has died. We came here to show respect!" But then she can’t stop giggling...
“My wife, Ellen, had a great sense of humor. She got a copy of Playgirl with a male nude centerfold and wanted to put it up in her hospital room,” Klein recalls. He wasn’t so sure about the propriety of full frontal genitalia in a place where most people post scenes of flowers and smiling grandchildren, so they decided to pin a leaf off from a plant to the possibly troublesome area. The leaf did its job for a few days and then shriveled up and fell apart, which struck the Kleins as funny.
“That little bit of laughter helped us, momentarily, to gain a different perspective. It wasn’t going to change the situation, but it helped us move through.”
-- Story by Allen Klein
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