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I didn't see the original, but based on this little snippet here, it's really not that funny. I'm sure the tie in to Lost was clever, and the coincidence to the headline of 49 dead is unfortunate, but the media and everybody else needs to lighten up.
Seriously.
If the trend continues of the entertainment media pulling the plug on all fiction that somehow corresponds with real life, we'll have stuff my mom would like to see:
Happy people eating cheese sandwiches on a pretty boat watching a sunset.
People die, comedians make us laugh: these are the sad facts of life.
