Death is weird: My thoughts on Life's Last Laughs No. 3

Is it worth your time?

If you have ten minutes and a strange curiosity for the macabre, sure. It’s not for people who need high-octane pacing or a plot that actually goes anywhere. This is strictly for the graveyard shift crowd—people who like old, dusty things and find mortality kind of funny.

You’ll probably hate it if you want, you know, a story. There are no heroes here, just dead people and their final jokes.

The tombstone vibe

There’s something inherently bizarre about watching a film dedicated to what people carved into stone to summarize their entire existence. Some of these are genuinely clever. Others are just bitter. It reminded me a bit of the frantic, desperate energy in Strictly Fresh Yeggs, where everyone is trying so hard to get the last word in.

The cinematography is what you’d expect from something this vintage—a bit scratchy, a bit blurry. Honestly, it fits. It feels like flipping through a scrapbook you found in a basement that smells like mothballs.

Oddly specific details

• The narrator’s voice sounds like he’s trying to be gentle, but it comes off a little bit like he’s reading a recipe for disaster.
• Some of these epitaphs are actually kind of mean. Like, real passive-aggressive stuff carved in granite.
• The silence between the segments feels heavy. Or maybe it was just my internet connection lagging. Who knows.

I spent most of the runtime wondering who actually decided to greenlight a documentary about funny headstones. It’s such a niche project. It makes the chaotic energy of Pep feel almost mainstream by comparison.

There is a segment where they show a tombstone that’s almost completely worn away by rain. You can barely make out the punchline. It’s the best part of the movie. That sense of losing the joke to time? That actually landed.

Everything else is just... okay. It’s a curiosity. Don’t go looking for deep life lessons here. You’ll just end up feeling like you’re at a party where everyone is dead, which, I suppose, is exactly what they wanted.

Anyway. It’s short. Go watch it if you’re bored. Or don't. The dead don't care. 🪦