coarse
jocosity
catches the crowd
shakespeare
and i
are often
low browed

The speaker wryly observes that broad, “coarse” humor reliably wins popular approval, even when it is dismissed as lowbrow by cultural gatekeepers. By pairing “Shakespeare and I,” the line uses comic self-aggrandizement to make a serious point: canonical art and contemporary wit alike can be (and often are) reduced in public reception to their most accessible, earthy elements. The phrase “low browed” suggests the social policing of taste—how audiences and critics label works as refined or vulgar—while the poem’s clipped, stepped lines mimic a deadpan, aphoristic punchline. Overall, it satirizes the hierarchy of taste and the crowd’s appetite for easy laughter.