Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 02:53     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm an old person - I grew up with George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, and Lily Tomlin. From my parents generation I enjoyed joke-meisters like Henny Youngman and George Burns - they were "shallow" but genuinely funny. More recently John Mulaney, Louis CK (yeah, I know), and Tig Notaro have been both funny and insightful about life.

But I recently checked out "Kill Tony" on Youtube, which is supposed to be the new proving ground for young standup comedians. And man, it completely sucks. Every act is just spitting hate and insults. Almost all men, and they just get up and talk about "fags", "titties", and throw around the N-word. I suppose it's a reaction against politically correct/woke constraints, but it's turned comedy into a bunch of 8-graders just yelling cursewords and slurs for shock value. How did we descend to this level? Is there any hope within GenZ for something more... funny? Insightful?


You start your list with Carlin and you're butthurt about language?


This. OP, this is more about you getting older and your tastes changing than it is about comedy changing. Comedy is usually socially transgressive and doesn't age well because it's meant for the time/culture in the moment.

George Carlin "you can't joke about rape bit" - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTqBd_ycHA

Check out the HBO special "Talking Funny" with Seinfeld talking about being a clean comic and the craft of comedy. It has Louis C.K., Ricky Gervais, and Chris Rock too.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 00:46     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nate bargatze
Ronnie Chieng
Trevor noah

All very clean and funny


Trevor Noah is awful


I love Trevor Noah! He speaks to the audience as if they are educated gasp! I like Nate too, he bridges dumb and smart audiences well.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 00:26     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:I think Chelsea Handler and KathyGriffin are funny.
Matt Rife, Fred Armisen, Louie Anderson rip, Mulhaney and Chappell


I think sometimes Matt Rife is super funny and sometimes he's just way too raunchy for my taste. Like he has a special where at the end he talks about an experience on an airplane that he later tweeted about, and it's hysterical. But he also talks about servicing himself in too much detail.

I really like John Mulaney's older standup (yes, when he was on coke and Adderall).
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 00:14     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:Nate bargatze
Ronnie Chieng
Trevor noah

All very clean and funny


Trevor Noah is awful
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 23:23     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
My young adults find the most hilarious comedians on YouTube, and usually they're not too crass. One of them is... but he's also occasionally profound and deeply funny. Check out Randy Feltface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG0Pf7LlATw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4pkE3OFpkc

He's also very quick-witted when it comes to interacting directly with the audience.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 23:16     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Nate bargatze
Ronnie Chieng
Trevor noah

All very clean and funny
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 22:07     Subject: Re:What the hell happened to comedy?
I go to a lot of live comedy. Unfortunately we are at a place of polarization in the comedy world. Either you get these vulgar racist misogynist men, or you get people who are so achingly woke that you aren’t sure if you are at a comedy club or a gender studies lecture at Oberlin. Neither are funny. The shows are tedious.

Good comics have become few and far between.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 22:07     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I agree there is a lot of funny stuff, but I’m also bored by the let’s talk about sex in excruciating detail from female comedians. I think Amy Schumer started it and people are like “oh my!” And it got a lot of traction. But then it was like every female needed to spend 20 minutes on blow job jokes. It’s just not that funny.
Ali Wong was hysterical in her first special, second a little less so and by the third I was just forwarding past all the sex stuff.
Same with Whitney Cummings — she was funny and then just got so tired and jumped the shark with the sex stuff.
I know it’s titillating to hear a sexy woman talking about sex very explicitly but ladies, please, we can be more than that!

This is dated by the Michelle Wolf Nice Lady special was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and there are a couple jokes that were so insightful I think about them often.


Chelsea Handler was a decade before Amy Schumer but both are the same vulgar Jewish promiscuous female vagina “humor” style. Handler literally slept her way to her E! show.


See also Sarah Silverman and Rosanne. This strain of “comedy” has been around for 40 years.

More, see Joan Rivers
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 22:04     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:Sheng Wang has a great special on Netflix. He’s so chill and genuinely funny. Clever too.


He’s great.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 22:00     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Sheng Wang has a great special on Netflix. He’s so chill and genuinely funny. Clever too.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 18:56     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I agree there is a lot of funny stuff, but I’m also bored by the let’s talk about sex in excruciating detail from female comedians. I think Amy Schumer started it and people are like “oh my!” And it got a lot of traction. But then it was like every female needed to spend 20 minutes on blow job jokes. It’s just not that funny.
Ali Wong was hysterical in her first special, second a little less so and by the third I was just forwarding past all the sex stuff.
Same with Whitney Cummings — she was funny and then just got so tired and jumped the shark with the sex stuff.
I know it’s titillating to hear a sexy woman talking about sex very explicitly but ladies, please, we can be more than that!

This is dated by the Michelle Wolf Nice Lady special was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and there are a couple jokes that were so insightful I think about them often.


Chelsea Handler was a decade before Amy Schumer but both are the same vulgar Jewish promiscuous female vagina “humor” style. Handler literally slept her way to her E! show.


See also Sarah Silverman and Rosanne. This strain of “comedy” has been around for 40 years.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 18:52     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
Anonymous wrote:I agree there is a lot of funny stuff, but I’m also bored by the let’s talk about sex in excruciating detail from female comedians. I think Amy Schumer started it and people are like “oh my!” And it got a lot of traction. But then it was like every female needed to spend 20 minutes on blow job jokes. It’s just not that funny.
Ali Wong was hysterical in her first special, second a little less so and by the third I was just forwarding past all the sex stuff.
Same with Whitney Cummings — she was funny and then just got so tired and jumped the shark with the sex stuff.
I know it’s titillating to hear a sexy woman talking about sex very explicitly but ladies, please, we can be more than that!

This is dated by the Michelle Wolf Nice Lady special was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and there are a couple jokes that were so insightful I think about them often.


Chelsea Handler was a decade before Amy Schumer but both are the same vulgar Jewish promiscuous female vagina “humor” style. Handler literally slept her way to her E! show.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 18:32     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
I have always hated that type of shock humor. It is also, often, misogynistic.
Anonymous
Post 10/09/2025 17:06     Subject: What the hell happened to comedy?
I get ya!
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