I wasn’t talking about it not being Coco Chanel, but not knowing her. I didn’t knew her and found it funny because I assumed she was an important person in fashion.
It the joke was made with someone unrelated to fashion it would be worse.
Hugo Boss was a fashion icon and a literal nazi, but the joke wouldn’t work with him either. It works because it’s a bait and switch: when the girl asks “you know what Coco Chanel said…”, you’re expecting the famous “Before you leave the house, look at yourself in the mirror and take one thing off.”
The same joke with Hugo Boss would amount to “Nazi bad”, which is true but not terribly funny.
I wasn’t talking about it not being Coco Chanel, but not knowing her. I didn’t knew her and found it funny because I assumed she was an important person in fashion.
It the joke was made with someone unrelated to fashion it would be worse.
Hugo Boss was a fashion icon and a literal nazi, but the joke wouldn’t work with him either. It works because it’s a bait and switch: when the girl asks “you know what Coco Chanel said…”, you’re expecting the famous “Before you leave the house, look at yourself in the mirror and take one thing off.”