You get a good set up, but the joke doesn't work. "famous character dies, he's dead now, chewie looks sideways." isn't a good punch line. There needs to be an ending so unexpected you can't help but laugh. Maybe Han Solo actually gets C3P0 to do it, because he's a smartass like that. We all think it's han solo and bam, we get c3p0 yelling and getting burned. Or maybe he's got explosives on board, and you use the "warp drive don't work" footage/lines to make em not able to go off. Or it turns out the core he's meant to crash into is shielded, like in episode 6.