Things Aren't As Funny As They Were Decades Ago

[John6185]

Did you ever notice that things we laughed about to the point of tears 40 or so years ago just aren't as funny today if we listen to it again. Red Skelton used funny but not so much anymore. Hudson and Landry were a couple of comedians that had a bunch of us guys rolling on the floor laughing forty years ago. I bought a CD of them doing some of their routines and gave it to my grandson and he said it was retro-humor and he apparently didn't appreciate Hudson and Landry. What the heck does he listen to anyway?
I guess some things aren't as funny as they used to be like George Burns, George Gobel but I still grin at Carol Burnett, she had some funny skits.

 

[foghorn918]

I don't find the new comedians funny, and the late night show hosts are all worthless, besides being mentally ill libitards

 

[SoonerP226]

Dunno, man. I still find Jack Benny and the Marx Brothers to be freaking hilarious, and they were from well before my time.

 

[Toothpick]

The Three Stooges are still funny to me but I have rewatched movies that I thought were funny years ago and they were not funny. Caveman comes to mind

 

[-Pjackso]

Green acres is the place to be.
I still love it. (Sorry, slight off tangent)

 

[foghorn918]

Abbott and Costello - Who's on First = Classic

 

[Chaparral]

The first time through, second, third,,,,hundredth…. Sometimes it is the lack of knowledge of the pending joke. I had the great pleasure to meet Dom DeLuise in person. He was full of old one and two liners and his delivery was fresh. We were all in stitches! We were even laughing at take my wife PUHLEEEEAAAAZZZZ. The comedy was fun. Today the people are doing insult and demeaning. They are not quick and witty. There is no Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Phylis Diller, Rochester and so on. As a society we digressed.

 

[Profreedomokie]

Did you ever notice that things we laughed about to the point of tears 40 or so years ago just aren't as funny today if we listen to it again. Red Skelton used funny but not so much anymore. Hudson and Landry were a couple of comedians that had a bunch of us guys rolling on the floor laughing forty years ago. I bought a CD of them doing some of their routines and gave it to my grandson and he said it was retro-humor and he apparently didn't appreciate Hudson and Landry. What the heck does he listen to anyway?
I guess some things aren't as funny as they used to be like George Burns, George Gobel but I still grin at Carol Burnett, she had some funny skits.

I agree that many of the old shows just aren't as funny today with one exception, Soap. That was the funniest of any comedy I've ever seen.

 

[cboss]

Of the current generation of comics, Bill Burr, Theo Von, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Gary Owen and Hannibal Burress are among my favorites.

RIP Patrice O'Neal

 

[TedKennedy]

Listen to Lenny Bruce from the 1960s -that POS was a harbinger of things to come.