Humor & Life Quote by Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax smuggles vanity, survival, and immigrant-coded grit into a throwaway joke about skincare. “Lucky” is doing double duty: it’s the breezy language of beauty culture (good genes, good skin, good lighting) and the darker language of getting through life when the odds are messy. By crediting “good Polish skin,” she turns what could be a shallow brag into a little identity flare - ethnicity as both punchline and provenance. It’s the comedian’s trick of making heritage legible in a single adjective, then letting the audience decide whether they’re laughing at genetics, stereotypes, or the absurdity of reducing a whole culture to collagen.

The line works because it treats aging like a public negotiation. Women in particular are trained to perform not getting older, then punished for admitting they’re trying. Wax steps into that bind and detonates it: yes, the face is currency; yes, it’s ridiculous; yes, she’s still going to cash the check. “Doesn’t wrinkle” becomes a sly proxy for endurance - as if staying “around for a few years yet” is less about mortality than about remaining visible, bookable, culturally present.

There’s also a quiet immigrant-family subtext: Polishness as toughness, a shorthand for having seen history up close. Wax doesn’t sermonize; she lets the joke carry the implication that longevity isn’t just cosmetic luck. It’s a kind of inherited insistence on continuing, preferably with a straight face and decent skin.