This shouldn't be funny. But it is.

"He was particularly struck by an appalling account of the direct hit on the Cafe de Paris, whose underground ballroom was thought to be safe, recorded by the late Ballard Berkeley, the actor later to become famous as the major in Fawlty Towers.
Berkeley, a special constable, arrived to find a scene from hell, the bandleader Snakehips Johnson decapitated."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1887666,00.html