[PuppyTailWags]

Gentle inquiry: Are you a comedian or work in comedy? Can you state a general region of comedy you're familiar with (USA Comedy? UK Comedy?) without doxing yourself?

[I'm not, and therefore have no opinion on this, but I wanted to know where you're getting your repository of knowledge of "most comedians" from and how to contextualize your knowledge in this matter. I'm asking in good faith.]

[nonrandomstring]

Since you ask in good faith (hard to tell around these parts sometimes);

I'm British, middle aged, and yes I have worked in entertainments during my career.

So far I have heard (via media interviews or similar) John Cleese, Mark Thomas, Eddie Izzard, Stewart Lee, Frankie Boyle, Charlie Brooker, Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Ian Hislop, and Armando Iannucci all say approximately the same thing in a more-or-less serious context.

Of course the "nothing is funny any more" trope is timeless. It doesn't need saying. However, these comics are also serious cultural analysts and they're identifying a genuine sea-change.

[PuppyTailWags]

Thanks for providing me context. If it helps to display the depth of my ignorance about comedy (thus trying to get more context to the claim) I don't know who any of those names are.

[nonrandomstring]

Sorry, it's a very parochially British viewpoint. Perhaps where you are there's also the same undercurrent, just not visible in the mainstream. You may have to dig a little.

Cultural malaise often hides beneath the surface. One of the most frightening accounts of this, on a more international stage, is what Slavoj Zizek had to say on it; He said that in the former Yugoslavia, humour kept ethnic tensions at bay. The civil war was foreshadowed by a creeping political correctness and people "not finding things funny anymore".

[hammock]

I run a podcast that regularly has comics on as guests. These comics are typically on the level of filling theaters across the country. I’m sure the open-mic early-career comics would be happy to play a college