Seinfeld was great, but Groucho LOL that guy was a pill!
Yes, comedy is dead. It is at a 10 year olds’ level of “that’s what she said.”
Liberals have taken over comedy and it is nothing more than political statements or pee, caca, and vagina references.
Comedians also think screaming and acting frantically makes any funny...it doesn’t.
Buddy Hackett was a hoot
I got to see Red Skelton live, and Hal Holbrook do Mark Twain (technically Twain would be humor, not comedy). It’s all downhill from thers.
I got to see Henny Youngman in the ‘80s before he died. The only joke I remember was when he previewed an upcoming episode of the then popular show “That’s Incredible!”, featuring a Puerto Rican with auto insurance.
Something to offend everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZegQYgygdw
The only way liberals know when to laugh is when they hear the conservative being insulted.
Liberals have no sense of humor because the liberal culture and mindset is fundamentally mean. Think about that: “Fundamentally mean”.
Some liberals are allowed to make soft jokes about liberals as long as there is a “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” and the rest of the performance makes up for it by insulting conservatives in the meanest, most unfunny ways possible.
There was a great “South Park” episode that depicted Whoopie Goldberg onstage. She would say “Republicans are stupid” (Howls of laughter), “I hate Republicans” (Huge applause).
The liberal mind cannot grasp humor.
Comedy today Is mean spirited. What happened to Bob Hope style humor?
Watch just one of Dean Martin’s roasts if you want to see true comedic talent.
Comedy today, like films and popular music, is as dead as a hammer.
There’s a video of Bob Newhart making it’s way around Facebook where he reprises his role as a psychiatrist that is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I love dead pan comedy and Bob is the king of that type.
Carlos Mencia skewers everyone.
I laugh myself into a coughing-jag!
Here’s some food for thought.
I was born in the early fifties and grew up with b&w, then color tv.
Every day at school we all talked about “the show” that we watched the night before. With only three channels we all shared the same experiences - Beatles on Ed Sullivan, etc.
We didn’t know it, but we were living in an unusual period of technology that was simple broadcast. The common experiences shaped our culture.
But we are far beyond that now. First came many more channels. Then came time shifting with recording machines. Then on demand streaming. All technologies that shifted power to the consumer (and that, by the way, upended all existing advertising models).
Now, there are few common experiences left (Superbowl comes to mind). So we live in a country with many small subcultures, bolstered by the ability to connect with anyone anywhere on the internet. Anyone can “broadcast.”
It’s no wonder that this fragmentation is having an impact on our culture. And there is literally no “going back.” We grew up in a technical transition period from broadcast to network which will never recur.
It’s a brave new world, like it or not.
Mining youtube for vintage entertainment is a hobby of mine. Currently digging into a lode of Steve Allen and a vein of Bob Newhart.
What is now called comedy is political satire. TV comedy shows are a political agenda wrapped in a laugh track.
The best news spoof comedy shows I remember were THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS back around 1964, and HBO’s NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS from the 1980s.
SNL was trash as was Laugh In.
The Death of Comedy?
Today’s so-called comedians thinks that the blatant use of four letter words is comedy.
Comedians of the past found humor in every day living not slamming people they disagree with using every four letter word they ca come up with. Only makes their ignorance stand out.
How did we manage to make it so long with comedy that wasn’t vulgar, crass and full of expletives?