190. Madame the Marquise

A thoroughly modern, wildly topical parody of an old Soviet comedy song, itself based on an even older French one. So modern, so terrifyingly topical... and utterly comedic... to the point of nausea. We live in an age of borderline humor. My grandmother used to tell me about the kind of humor that existed during the Siege of Leningrad, so dark humor was something I learned from childhood...