Indeed, Leeneia, I know just where you are coming from. However, we need to recognise that, as lovers of folksong/music-hall &c, we must accept the earlier convention that drunkenness is a huge, enjoyable joke, in exactly the same way as we have to adjust our today's expectations to all the sexism & racism with which the genres abound. It's one of those leaps of historical imagination we have to keep making.

But, I reiterate, I find drunkenness just as funny as you do ~~ i.e. not in the least...

~M~