Corpse abuse is always good for a laugh. Many fine set-pieces have been written on that theme. Most recently part of "Death at a Funeral" if you like your movies home-grown.
Messing with taboos is funny, and appropriate for something that centres around a murder, which is a taboo itself. Watch almost any episode of "Californication" for shameless exploitation of taboo-centred humour.
Jokes about taboos are often distasteful - which is usually what makes them funny. Setting light to a dead person is funny because you just shouldn't do it, not before the cremation anyway. You have lots of potential follow up to that as well, in terms of the smell of burning flesh and people asking "is it bacon for breakfast today?" and so on.
If your characters are stereotypical, you should maybe look at comedy that goes against type.
Every catholic priest doesn't like boys, but there are enough that do to make jokes about it. But if you turned it around, so that either a boy really liked the priest and the priest was having to resist, or had a priest who liked really old women, you would be playing against type and with taboos. And could have a lot of fun.
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Good luck to you all.
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