It's never too early when it comes to joking about dead dictators

That crazy evil elf, Kim Jong-il, has strapped on his platform boots and his toupee for the last time and, as a reward for finally dying, is trending on Twitter.

@daxshepard1 I'm upset about Kim Jong. I was beating him by 60 points in Words With Friends. I guess now will never know who would have won.
@AlbertBrooks Kim Jong very very very il
@pattonoswalt "I can't listen to that song today" -- sobbing North Korean, as Run DMC's "You Be Illin'" spins.
@neilgrayston Waiting for North Korea to announce Zombie Kim Jong-Il as Supreme Leader. Waiting. So. Hard.
@BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz Per his instructions, Kim Jong-Il will be strapped to a nuclear missile and buried in South Korea. 

and this: @jstrevino I'd like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third.

and this: @benschwartzy Kim Jong-Il is dead. The size 4 supervillain jumpsuit industry will halt production at noon today for a moment of silence.

And, for that nostalgic look at Kim Jong-il looking at things, check the brilliant tumblr aptly named Kim Jong-il Looking at things. This is one of my favourites:

Also trending, the genius piece of film-making that is Team America. (And speaking of film, Mental Floss has a great and creepy little piece on that time Kim Jong il kidnapped a South-Korean movie director and forced him to make propaganda movies).

And here is footage of North Koreans behaving as if Michael Jackson or Princess Diana had died all over again. Brainwashing is the best kind of washing ever. (says @MiaFarrow N Korea: Ppl sobbing,wailing & thrashing about - as an actor I can say, they would never get hired).

Comments

[Pete Needham]

Stargazing? You should call your column navel-gazing.

A people have lost their leader. If Harper died today, would you be making jokes?

Zero class.

Any government...western or otherwise...could easily send something like, "We offer our condolences to the people of North Korea at this difficult time". See? Was that so hard to think up?

[steve]

Re: Pete.

How about you take 5 minutes to read up on the guy and what he has done to his country before commenting, eh? This was a terrible man who tortured his people while living in luxury, all the result of a historical quirk that should have been fixed decades ago. If this world had any justice he would have been removed years ago. The man is utter evil personified and we are better off without him alive.

[Heather]

A people have lost their DICTATOR. It's a little different.

[Jim Macdonald]

Looks like a form of aversion therapy to me, Pete. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_technique

[Matthew]

People in the west think they understand North Korea and other cultures. We're the same as this man, we want naught but the world to be like us, have our culture, our religion (or lack thereof) and our government. Anything less is barbaric, inferior and is clearly demonic and must be stopped, irrespective of how much knowledge we may or may not have about the topic. We'll invade other nations to spread our ideals, to impose our form of justice. Pete's got it right, do you really think that our governments are any better? That the Americans are any better?

[Joe]

Matthew: Do you think two wrongs make a right? I can't believe how bad your reasoning is. A man with a cult of personality developed through iron fisted rule, brainwashing and mistreatment of the people he goverened is a man indefensible. A man who centrally controls and rules everything without even basic freedoms and human needs met (like food and water!) for his people is indefensible. You may as well cry a river for Hitler and Stalin. While we're at it, maybe we should descend our moral relativism further and say everything is a matter of perspective, so why should anyone tell me it's illegal to kill or steal?

[Kim Jong Un]

Please do not worry internet my father taught me how to look at things too and I will continue the family tradition of looking at random things on my blog.