It used to be a lot more common for American Entertainers to make jokes about being drunk. I recall Foster Brooks and Dean Martin as just two of them.Red Skelton had Willie Lump Lump, Carol Burnett and Tim Conway had several drunk personae.
Oh, and Otis, the town drunk on the Andy Griffith show.
Otis was known to break into jail and sleep off his nightly drunk.
The White Collar Drunk by Lenny Bruce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3-jch8uH4
Brooks drunk routine made him
popular at Dean Martin celebrity roasts.
One on youtube had him appearing as
the campaign manager for Hubert Humphrey.
“I don’t know how we lost.Just think,
instead of Tricky Dicky we could’ve
had Hubie the Boobie.”
Said in slurry voice with belches
and inability to say certain words.