Every time I hear this observation, I automatically hear Jim Carrey's voice in my head saying "It's dead people laughing! Those people are dead!"
I guess he said it in the 1999 movie Man On The Moon and the line has somehow been permanently lodged in the back of my brain for the last 25 years
this was in 2015 btw
not that it's super important, just in case someone reads it as a contemporary news headline rather than fun historical trivia