The Complexity of Comedic Values

I get to play one of my macabre cabaret songs and it's funny it's a song that's funny on several levels because one the lead singer has this comic falsetto but also they dress up as kind of scary clowns. The whole content of the songs about making fun of others and our own misfortune and downfall when we're drunk effectively or addicted to drinking gin in this case. I think part of the phenomenon I was sort of getting at is partly to do with the fact well especially in the age of the internet but really since the beginning of globalized media. British colloquialisms creeping into American vocabulary in a way that never used to happen at all in a way