The joke is that blues music is traditionally associated with poverty, hardship, racism, and social inequality, while the scene is of wealthy white people in their opulant home. The joke is about how out of touch the privileged are.
It helps if you imagie the woman speaking in an upper class british accent, possibly after voicing her opinion about “those dreadful coloured people around the corner.”
The joke is that blues music is traditionally associated with poverty, hardship, racism, and social inequality, while the scene is of wealthy white people in their opulant home. The joke is about how out of touch the privileged are.
It helps if you imagie the woman speaking in an upper class british accent, possibly after voicing her opinion about “those dreadful coloured people around the corner.”
That chair placement relative to the stairs has got to give them some hardship from time to time.