Reminds me of the 3rd Barnabas episode where he muses to Vicki about the history of the Old House, at some point breaks into macabre, bitter laughter, then gets ahold of himself and comments to her: "Nothing that happened here was ever funny."
Alas, the same cannot be said of the Burton/Depp thing... well, a lot of it, at least, was INTENDED to be a larf riot...
G.