It’s hard to make fun of death, but Monty Python and the Holy Grail meets that challenge. In the film, an undertaker yelling, “Bring out your dead!” pulls a cart full of corpses through a plague-ridden medieval village. A local, toting the body of an old man, beckons the undertaker.
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