Die Laughing
It's hard to find humor in death, but Vincent Graziano has found a way to do it.
Most of us spend our lives trying to avoid death, but for Vincent Graziano, death is inescapable. Graziano's a third generation funeral director. His grandfather ran a funeral home on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and Graziano has been running one himself in Westchester county for more than thirty years.
Graziano has written a comic novel called Die Laughing. It's about a 21-year old man in Little Italy in the 1970's who works for the family funeral business and moonlights as a standup comic.