Top 10 Funniest Celebrity Responses to Fake Death Reports

By David Emery, About.com Guide

The Twitterverse went crazy on June 25, 2009 after a prankster created a false online report claiming that actor Jeff Goldblum had fallen from a cliff to his death in New Zealand. A few days later, Goldblum went on Comedy Central to pretend-interrupt Stephen Colbert's pretend-coverage of the accident, protesting that he was not, in fact, dead:

"I'm so sorry to interrupt, my friend Stephen, but look, I'm not dead. In fact, last week I was not even in New Zealand!"

When Colbert informed Goldblum that New Zealand police had confirmed he was dead, the actor gave in and delivered his own eulogy:

"No one will miss Jeff Goldblum more than me. He was not only a friend and a mentor, but he was also... me."