Funny Eulogy

Craig Ferguson delivered a funny eulogy for his father.  You can read another eulogy example that is more of a sentimental speech, rather than a funny eulogy.

In this funny eulogy, Ferguson tells three stories about his father. He tells one story from childhood, a travel story and a story about Christmas day.

“My father was 75 years old and he lived a very full life.  He did everything that he set out to do. Where I come from, in the Celtic tradition it’s kind of a wake where we talk about the person, there’s a lot of drinking involved but of course I won’t be taking part in that.I think others may get involved in that for obvious reasons

During the wake we tell favorite stories about the person and it’s not always very flattering for the person. It’s kind of a roast sometimes. It’s a celebration of a human being with faults and quirks and idiosyncrasies that go with being a person and my father was certainly that.

My father was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1930 which was a source of great Irish pride for his Catholic mother and some consternation for its Scottish father. He grew up in Glasgow in Scotland during World War II. Glasgow was bombed heavily and all of the kids were evacuated out of the cities and put to work on the farms.

It was supposed to be an idyllic reprieve but it didn’t work out well for my father. He didn’t talk about it much. in the six years that he was there it was just awful.

From where he started to where he ended up with the journey so vast an incredible it’s too much for me to hope to emulate…”

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