To answer this question, one must realize that the difference between these two eras depends on several factors: the type of humor, the time period in question, and the medium. Yesterday’s comedians were dominated by canned laughter, starched hook lines, and iffy timing. Much of today’s comedians tend to be sophomores and unfunny. The two eras of comedy are basically the same, but with different kinds of humor. Yesterday’s comedy tended to be drier, more precise, while today’s comedy is more forceful and broad.

Earlier comedians came on the heels of the war and fighting, and the ability to make people laugh was a much simpler task. He helped people to be able to handle painful memories full of horror and a lot of pain. It allowed people to feel good again. People who had experienced hard times became some of the best comedians.

Then the traditional comedians changed; there was the lack of taste, decency and moral standards. These attributes were replaced by vulgarity, foul mouthing, and a host of profanity. Governments are attacked, people, no matter who they are, are ridiculed, morals, religions, norms, race, cultures, I could go on, are ridiculed in the name of comedy. Nothing and no one is safe from today’s humorist.

A lot of people prefer today’s comedian because he says things that people are thinking but are afraid to say. Today’s comedian tells the truth, no matter how brutally honest he is. Most of today’s comedians do not observe any holiness. If he exists, he is mocked. Some people find this funny.

Comedians today rely on dressing as a drunken sailor as a way to get a laugh, and most of their routines are filled with profanity and vulgar language, as if profanity is the routine. A lot of today’s comedians are too crude, too basic, and too identified with bathroom humor, and after a while, it gets tedious. It’s like they don’t know anything funny to say, so they fill the void with vulgarities.

Today’s comedians should take lessons from yesterday’s comedians. Comedians of yesterday used slapstick, slapstick, funny anecdotes, and silliness to create laughter, while comedians today employ vulgarity. Comedians should not only take lessons from yesterday’s comedians, but people who think today’s comedians are funny should take a step back and take a serious look at themselves.

I love to laugh, and good clean humor, to me, is more fun than listening to a comedian that you can’t understand because it’s constantly playing. I don’t believe in censorship, I do believe in freedom of expression, but I also believe in decency.