While celebrities weren't expected, Aykroyd, who got engaged to Fisher years ago after they co-starred in the movie The Blues Brothers together, not only showed up but spoke to the audience.

Aykroyd , 64, made mourners laugh through their tears, saying in his eulogy for Fisher, "I once saved her life, applying the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a Brussels sprout from her throat.

He added poignantly, "And if I'd been with our beloved showboat, I might be able to save her again."

He told the audience that an East Indian doctor in Chicago had given them the tests "because babies and Christmas were great joys to Carrie."

Aykroyd wondered what the offspring of Princess Leia and Elwood Blues have turned out like.

He thought, "Funny, quick, spiritual, haunted, pursued, talented, ascerbic….deviant, manic genius."

But instead, the funnyman had three kids with his wife, Donna Dixon.

Former Saturday Night Live comedian Aykroyd also said, "Carrie enjoyed conversation. Throughout our relationship, she talked," he said to the crowd's laughter. "From beginning to end, she was sharp, hilarious, laughing, weeping, soaring, exhilarating Carrie."

Aykroyd also was candid about how their romance ended, telling fans, "In fact, she had long conversations on the phone in my presence with Paul Simon, with whom she was attempting to reconcile.

"So here I found myself attempting to reconcile with a woman returning to a former intimate, and may I say, a much better choice, but a woman who confided deeply in me and who valued my counsel throughout the process of her inevitable decision to in fact, not marry me—and wed another."

Fisher, of course, walked down the aisle with singer Simon in 1983, the same year Aykroyd married Dixon. They divorced and later, Fisher had daughter Billie with boyfriend Bryan