I have not found any current new comedians that make me laugh, the topics are usually very predictable and the punch lines are well not punchy at all. My boys like to go to a local comedy club, but yea I'm usually ready to go by the time the "headliner" comes on.

I can laugh about many things but as a football fan I can waste a lot of time watching videos like this (mostly they come with with sh... music ):

A few years ago I found Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish pretty original. All episodes are now on Gorman's youtube  channel.

Watching the current mouth pieces for the republican party trip over themselves as they try and make it look like they any actual ideas that would benefit the country as as whole. Brings tears to my eyes each and every time.

Oh, and reruns of Mock The Week's Scenes We'd Like To See on YouTube while we have dinner.

I'll agree with the comedians no longer being original. I think my favorite young comedian is in his early 50s.

Speaking of headliners, I went to the Melbourne Comedy Festival years ago, and the amateurs were better than the headliner, who I thought would be real good based on the program guide. He wasn't funny at all, but he had been drinking, so he probably THOUGHT he was funny. I saw him right before the show, and the best line he could come up wit was "I come to Australia to use the bathrooms".

I still love watching classic British sitcoms such as Dads Army, Fawlty, and etc. Even then, though, most sitcoms were awful. Just think Love Thy Neighbour, Get Some In, and etc. I can’t think of any modern sitcoms I have liked.

I have always loved good satire. The ability to take the piss out of the great and the good is an essential role in any society. By far the best still is Private Eye, which I have read for over 35 years now. Charlie Brooker is also searingly funny when he is on form. A very good and funny broadcaster is Matt Chorley, who writes for The Times and does an excellent radio show on Times Radio on Monday to Thursday mornings from 10 a.m., essential listening for me.

Just a Minute was always fantastic radio.

Of all American comedy, the only one I ever liked, and still love, is MASH.

Generally, I have always preferred written and aural comedy, probably because neither feel the requirement to cater to the masses, a shockingly snobbish thing to say, I know.

^Laz, you need to check out "The Death of Stalin" movie. Excellent farce.

Also, When M.A.S.H. was released in the UK, you guys got to see/hear it as it was meant to be, without the laugh track. When it aired on this side of the pond the network was afraid people wouldn't know when to laugh or be serious (dimwit executives) so they had a laugh track added. That's how I first saw it. Then when it was released on DVD they removed he laugh track. I just watched the entire series last year for the first time that way and found it to be far superior than the TV version was.

Re The Death of Stalin, no I haven’t seen this. Having said this, Ianucci is very clever, so I will keep an eye out for this on the streaming services. JD is absolutely right about MASH. On BBC, it was shown without the canned laughter, but the satellite channels who show it retain this, and it absolutely spoils a great show.