Merv Griffin’s had my husband in stitches
Equally funny was Jack Lemmon’s, who made it to one final marquee:
Obviously, Rodney Dangerfield couldn’t go out without a laugh:
Mel Blanc
The Man of a Thousand Voices knew how to leave his audience wanting more. On the off-chance that you’re not familiar, Mel was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn (among others). How fitting, then, that he chose to have this engraved on his headstone:
Robert Frost
You might expect one of Frost’s famous quotes to be inscribed on his tombstone – “In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.” Instead, he went with something equally thought-provoking:
(”I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”, in case you can’t read it.)
Edgar Allan Poe
Such a dark and macabre writer such as Edgar Allan Poe would surely have something similarly creepy on his headstone, and he does not disappoint. “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore’,” is what the text on the arch over the raven says.
Ed Wynn
You may not know Ed Wynn by name, but Disney fans will recognize him as the voice of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Later, he played crazy Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins. Prior to Alice, he was a headliner on Broadway who found his way under W.C. Fields’ tutelage. Wynn remembered who was responsible for all of his success and made sure to note so on his memorial:
Finally, you wouldn’t expect a legend like Frank Sinatra to go out without last words to remember him by:
Stop squinting. It says, “The Best Is Yet To Come.”
