There were two brothers, Harry and Sammy, living in this town. They were misers and hated in town. Basically they were not good. Anyway, one day Sammy dies and Harry comes to the Rabbi and says that if he would pay the rabbi $2,000,000 (2 million) if he would say that Sammy was a mentch. The Rabbi thinks for a while and finally agrees.
By the funeral the Rabbi says how bad Sammy was, how he was such a miser and did all these terrible things…
…but compared to Harry he was a mentch.