Eddie Pepitone has been doing his heckler bit on Conan for ages, but this clip from last night's show might be the last one ever and Pepitone's best performance yet. God, I hope this fictional late night character isn't really dead because you know how strictly late night shows stick to continuity. And who knew Pepitone's heckler character was only 22 years old?
This week's episode of How I Met Your Mother ("Last Words" 1/17/11) brought me to tears, and I loved every minute of it. I am not much of a crier, but when I see characters that I care about who make me laugh from week to week struggle with the emotional loss of a loved one, I get choked up. As the credits rolled and I dabbed my eyes and blew my nose, I thought of the other episodes of sitcoms I have seen dealing with death and the relationship between the viewer, the sitcom, and the funeral.
When a character loses a loved one, the sitcom stretches [...]
