While supplies last. But of course, it is funny.
Comedy encourages our natural disrespect for authority.
It targets formality, stiffness, those foolish enough to think that what they're doing is very, very important. Lubitsch, to be sure, walked a very fine line. This farce, set just before and just after the 1939 invasion of Poland, is about a Warsaw theater company that becomes entangled with the Nazis, and it makes all sorts of tasteless jokes. But Lubitsch knew that, given his subject, good taste would have been the worst possible taste of all. To those with their back against the wall, culture can seem a flossy irrelevancy.