Kim Jong-il

Some humor -- like, say, a guy slipping on a banana peel -- is universal. But when more sophisticated jokes cross into other cultures they can get lost in translation.

Kim Jong II may have been a brutal, totalitarian dictator, but none of his contemporaries could approach him in terms of sheer strangeness. (Well, maybe Gaddafi.) But Jong II was in a league of his own in terms of weird. As North Korea buries its Dear Leader, here's a few odd things that made the late Kim Jong Il who he was....

'Conan' sidekick Andy Richter has no idea who Kim Jong-il is, but that didn't stop him from doing a video obituary for him on Monday's show.

On Monday, thousands of people marched through the streets of North Korea's capital and wept openly at the death of leader Kim Jong-il, who died on Saturday at 69 from a heart attack.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may be dead from a heart attack at 69-years-old, but his certifiable status as a pop culture punchline lives on. The notoriously brutal dictator has often been the butt of jokes in movies and TV shows, including 'Team America,' 'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Simpsons,' just to name a few. We've gathered five of the funniest examples of Kim's bizarre status as a pop

The summer of 2011's most bouncy, feel-good hit had to be LMFAO‘s 'Party Rock Anthem.' Even North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il agrees. Well, sort of. Seems the dance anthem's video has been reimagined as ‘North Korea Party Rock Anthem ft. Kim Jong-Il,’ swapping out the original clip's dancing for footage from North Korean military parades and -- with the help of CGI and some clever digital editing