While comedian Richard Jeni's suicide was obviously hard on longtime friend and frequent Houston's dining companion Chris Rock, he made sure to work up to the Acceptance stage of grief before taking a seat on David Letterman's couch so as not to bring down the show with depressing sentiment. Rock then unexpectedly progressed to the little-known sixth stage of the Kübler-Ross model, This Is Sad And All, But I Have A Movie To Promote, eliciting relieved laughs from an audience eager to know that it's OK for everyone to get on with their lives following a brief, uncomfortable talk show discussion of a recent tragedy.

UPDATE: We seem to be having trouble with the clip. It should be back up shortly! Problem solved!

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