What ever happened to comedians who could tell humorous jokes and stories and have us in stitches without ever uttering a single swear word? People like Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, The Smothers Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis and Bill Cosby could all have you rolling in the aisles without a single curse or sexual innuendo. That was comedy, not what we have now.
People got caught up in pop culture and got too lazy to put any thought in their act to earn a laugh. Even old comedians start having trouble staying creative and generally fall back on potty humor to earn a cheap laugh.
I beg to differ, there are some stand up guys out there that are very very funny, you gear the stand up to the audience, what they want you give them.
The line of thought and wages a comedian makes dictate whether or not they will become what the world desires or what it truly needs. I love a good hard laugh that evolved from shear talent in timing, relatively, and articulation but profanity and perversions or at the expense of another becomes short lived in my choice of entertainment.
I guess I'm a degenerate then. I drove 1300 miles in the last 2days and listened to Opie & Anthony and Jim Norton the entire time. Norton is pretty filthy but I think he's one of the funniest men on the planet.
Most of them died. I would have to say that after Lenny Bruce stepped onto the stage in the Catskills, and several attempts to silence him fell by the wayside... the style of the aforementioned comedy changed forever - and a new breed of comedian was born. I could go on... and touch on the deterioration of traditional family units and how politics even played a part in exacerbating it - but that would more than likely start confrontational posts - so I'll just leave it at that. With THAT said, being 'old school'... I enjoy 'old school' comedy to the hilt!
Funny is funny. It doesn't bother me that people swear. If you want to see some awful stand up, watch Joe Rogan.
Maybe people are lacking the intellectual skills required to actually be funny; the same goes for those who enjoy filth.
I enjoy comedians like Kevin Hart and Ralphie May even though they curse, but I understand what your saying. I find that most things are becoming more crude. I love Game of Thrones but I couldn't take the amount of sex scenes they had in it. I like to watch the older comedians that didn't curse at all and just told really funny stories every once in a while. Unfortunately its only going to get worse as time goes on.
Simple. Clean comedy isn't created much anymore for the same reason as old style country music isn't. There's no market for it. The people who do like these things are typically older people who don't spend money to buy a cd or go see the show. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
