Dawn French has said she would like to die “on stage” and be “dragged off to the side”.
The Vicar of Dibley actress, 65, was reflecting on her death as part of a new podcast.
Kathy Burke asked her fellow comedian in Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake’s latest episode, how she would like to die.
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French said she would “quite like” to die on stage when a sign appears saying “twat” on it during the panto Jack and the Beanstalk, which she is starring in alongside Julian Clary.
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She said: “Yeah, twat to come in and (I) just collapse, sort of Tommy Cooper style right then with a big laugh that goes with it and a round of applause because people think, oh, she’s doing a joke.”
She added: “Then there’d be a bit of an awkward silence and then one of my lovely crew would come off and just drag me off, unceremoniously. Yeah, off to the side.”
French also told Burke details on her dream funeral procession, which she said would include her “possibly” being dressed in a vicar outfit while lying in a see-through Barbie-style coffin and drag queen RuPaul in a top hat.
She added: “I’d like the whole coffin to be raised up, upright, on the Tamar Bridge as you enter Cornwall with ‘You are now entering Cornwall’ written underneath…
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“Maybe even my hand like bony skeletal hand, could be out to the side of the coffin just waving.”
French also wants Jennifer Saunders, who she starred with in the BBC comedy sketch show French and Saunders, which also featured Burke, reading her eulogy that would be written by Richard Curtis, who created the BBC sitcom The Vicar Of Dibley.
She added: “Jennifer (will) have to read it because it would kill her to have to say so many nice things about me.
“I would also I would insist that the very last line of the eulogy is sung… I might even insist that she sings The Wind Beneath My Wings or something like that.”
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