I Love Lucy’s Dead Corpse

Lucille Ball is fantastic. She is a comedic genius. She paved the way for female comedians. Her role as Lucy Ricardo made it ok for women to be more than just a pretty face or the nagging housewife, as most other actresses of her time were stuck portraying. She made it ok to be beautiful and funny. She lit up the little screen.

One of my favorite Lucy moments takes place in the “LA at Last” episode. This is the episode where she goes to LA to meet famous movie stars and tries to disguise herself with a big rubber nose. She smokes a cigarette, and the nose catches fire. This wasn’t in the script; they never planned on the nose catching fire. But it happened during filming and Lucy just went with it; calmly dunking her nose into William Holden’s coffee mug, creating one of the most memorable episodes of the series.
It’s this razor sharp wit and brilliant physical comedy that makes her one of my very favorite comedians of all time.

And sadly…she is dead.

According to a recent survey, she is our favorite dead star.
Is it just me, or is this survey a little morbid?