"Laughter does not save man from death. But it helps."

From the funeral services for Umberto Eco:

Consider the implications of the words of another friend, Moni Ovadia. 

The Bulgarian actor living in Italy told a joke in Yiddish that no one seemed to understand (so write the Milan reporters there), but ended his salute to Eco with an ironic, "The God who puts up with the believers and who loves us atheists blesses you."