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Late North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il enjoyed an elaborate personality cult at home but he was also a favorite of Western popular media, which found him to be a time-tested source of laughs.
From Hollywood to websites, satirists relished skewering a leader whose shrill missives to the world, intolerance for any dissent and bouffant hairstyle made him -- at times literally -- a cartoon villain.
Kim, who is to receive a massive funeral send-off Wednesday, was spoofed on Fox's MADtv as a talk show host who raps about his pursuit of nuclear weapons and gleefully shoots petrified cast members who do not follow his every wish.
Even more incongruously, a website dubbed "Kim Jong-Il Dropping the Bass" depicts the usually humorless dictator as a nightclub DJ, ceding the spotlight to revelers as he devotes himself to the turntables.
Kim's death has immediate consequences for one US show, NBC's "30 Rock," where a fictional Kim kidnapped a character. Fans have been asking on social media how the show will adapt.
