Party, drunk, lampshade-for-a-hat. Where and when did this originate?

Factual Questions
1

This image must be fifty years old, or older, but it shows no sign of being forgotten. You know what I mean: the way that the person at a party who’s drunk a little too much of the true, blushful Hippocrene puts a lampshade on his head. A recent ad for multiple-cat kitty litter shows the kitties having a secret party, and sure enough, one of them ends up with a lampshade on his head.

So, does anyone know where this gag was first used? I assume it was some movie, but I have no idea which. I’m guessing it would be sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, when the long cocktail party of the postwar era began.

2

I don’t know, but the best play on this was a gag from the short lived Fox sitcom Greg the Bunny:

“Look at me! I’m a drunk stereotype!”

3

i would reckon it started when lampshades were able to be removed. i’m looking into when that would be. i’m thinking the jazz age. there were some wild parties then.

4

It occurs to me that this would make an excellent party costume… I should aquire a lampshade…

5

I think the joke was that putting on a shallow conical lampshade made it look kind of like you were wearing one of those Asian straw hats.

I know that there was at least one Bugs Bunny cartoon that used this flavor of the gag, but I don’t recall what decade it was from.

6

Often they extend the gag to turning the “lamp” on and a light comes on where the person’s head should be.

No actual information, just curious myself. I always wondered when I was a kid what the hell was up with that.

7

IIRC, Mr. Dithers, Dagwood Bumstead’s boss, used to do the lampshade trick at partys. That’d likely be back in the mid 30’s.

8

This works well with the slang sense of “lit.”