In the 1990s, things were still good. Johnny Carson and Jay Leno were good. Letterman had not morphed into Bitterman yet. There were lots of stand up comedians who were good and there were good comedies in the movie theaters. Hell, there was even rock music still dominating the radio! The Democrats were actually still pretty reasonable (just look at Bill Clinton's policies...they look an awful lot like Trump's). Then by the 2000s one by one, everything went to shit culturally.
I could even enjoy watching the late Bill Hicks. His routine on marketers is a classic....”Oh I see what he’s doing there, he’s going after that anti-marketing dollar, that’s a huge market, we’ve done research!”