There was a famous french singer that also happened to be an alcoholic (I won't name him, in fact there way too many of them and the name isn't what matters to get the stupid joke below)
The joke was (delivered news brief style)
"Yesterday evening in Paris, X-singer has peed on a streetlight... the streetlight could not be saved, it instantly died of a dazzling cirrhosis..." Also works with old Boris Yeltsin, in passing.
The Guignols had a good one, related to Boris. By the late 90's both Russia and Yeltsin were degrading pretty fast, the latter despite massive injection of cash by the IMF.
The Guignols had a news brief with the anchorman puppet saying exactly this.
"Good news, the many dollars pumped by the IMF into Russia economy have been found back. The Russians used them to stuff Boris Yeltsin."
(shot of the Yeltsin puppet grossly inflated, visibly half-dead with glassy eyes - and mounds of dollars stuck in the ears, nose, and mouth)
ROTFL