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Context matters: I've spent hours laughing about the foibles of recently deceased loved ones.
I'm not really sure where to draw the line. In Chicago, Gene Siskel was an especially beloved person, and it was a shocking tragedy when he died. The Onion ran a headline the following week, "Ebert Victorious." It was hilarious, it was incredibly rude, and it was immediately following his death. But was it wrong to do? I dunno.
P.S. The Onion rarely holds back material because it is insensitive. One of the only times was following 9/11, when they nixed the headline: "Country safe for now, says top Quadragon officials." Obviously I understand why they did that...it's still really funny.
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