Loved ones gave Abe Vigoda a final curtain call on Sunday — turning the ageless actor’s funeral into a gut-busting comedic roast.
“Abe was so old, he had a Bible that was signed by the author,” comic Gilbert Gottfried zinged to a crowd of 200 in Riverside Memorial Chapel.
“You know this is the 20th time we’ve buried Abe Vigoda,” Gottfried continued about the actor, who did actually die on Tuesday in New Jersey at the age of 94 — three decades after he was mistakenly reported to have passed.
An infamous 1982 People magazine flub launched a second career for the Brooklyn-born actor, best known as Fish in the 1970s-’80s comedy “Barney Miller.”
Those paying their respects included former Mayor David Dinkins and Friars Club roastmaster general Jeffrey Ross.
Two NYPD officers stood at attention next to a mahogany casket, with framed portraits of Vigoda nearby.
The memorial program included a picture of Vigoda from “The Godfather,” and underneath the picture, his final line of that 1972 classic: “Can you get me off the hook . . . for old times’ sake?”
As Vigoda’s casket was transported out of Riverside Memorial Chapel — on its way for burial at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont — the theme from “The Godfather” serenaded exiting mourners.
After the services, Gottfried told The Post that Vigoda would have appreciated the laughs.
“He was not only in on the joke, but he was the joke, and he knew it and he embraced that,” Gottfried said. “Abe Vigoda — his name became a punch line, but in a nice way, in a loving way.”
“His big wish was to not be alone and to not die alone. And he didn’t,” said his daughter Carol. “He died in my house three minutes after I went into the kitchen for coffee.”
“And I came back and I was shaking him, ‘Wake up, wake up.’ Usually he’d swat me when I woke him up. But he didn’t wake up. His mind was perfect and he was sharp as a tack, as a doctor would
say. And everybody loved him.”