Dawn French knows how to put the fun into funerals and wants to be buried in her Vicar of Dibley costume, “the full vestments”.
It’s just a shame she won’t be available to perform the service.
She also wants to be laid to rest in a solid-gold casket “like a sarcophagus” with a Perspex lid so she can be seen at her funeral.
“I’d like to be preserved. I’d like to be embalmed, properly – full makeup with lashes.”
There should be floral tributes spelling out “Help” and “Not Dead” next to her coffin as she is paraded around Cornwall in a transparent hearse, “like a lovely big Barbie”.
Dawn says all her exes would have a role.
She laughs: “This is all low key, obviously.
“I would like a sort of a wake behind of previous lovers and concubines.”
The comic, 65, put a lot of thought into her final outing, before chatting on Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake, Kathy Burke’s darkly funny new podcast.
Another stipulation by Dawn is that Vicar of Dibley’s author Richard Curtis writes her eulogy, which her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders must read because, she laughs: “It would kill her to have to say so many nice things about me”.
Then, before her burial, she hopes her coffin would raised upright at the entrance of Cornwall, to greet new arrivals, smiling in all her makeup.
This would all actually make a nice episode of her comedy series.
