Video: Tom Hanks' Surprisingly Hilarious Eulogy to Michael Clarke Duncan

Friends and family of Michael Clarke Duncan gathered for his memorial service on Monday, relating stories and giving heartwarming eulogies to the late actor. But one guest took a slightly different approach to his eulogy, and ended up having the crowd in stitches.

Duncan told Hanks a story about his childhood while the two were working together on "The Green Mile," and the story apparently made such an impact on Hanks that he just had to relate it to the crowd at the memorial service. What followed was both hilarious and emotional, and it's tough to say if Hanks ended up in tears over how funny the story was, or over how sad it is that such a wonderful personality has left us.

Without giving away too much, the story relates how Duncan thought he might join a gang when he was a young man living in Chicago. He went through a very tough initiation, but nothing the gang did to him could have been nearly as bad as what his own mother put him through when she found out what he did.

Watch the video below, and get ready to smile: