Steamed Hams is the new Aristocrats joke

MrSluagh@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 18 points –
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Hmm yes, and you call it an aristocrats joke despite the fact that it's obviously not vulgar...

It's the opposite, really.

Steamed Hams is a sketch that's so comedically perfect on a conceptual level that it works no matter how it's executed.

The Aristocrats joke is a horrifically tasteless, bad joke, and the challenge is to make it funny anyway in your own style.

I thought Succession was the new aristocrats joke

I feel like I need more context to understand what we are talking about here.

Succession is a popular show about a family of aristocrats that keep fucking eachother over but it’s funny enough to keep watching.