Political correctness has destroyed all comedy
@Jamie Scott-Douglas: As will have been said a hundred times, political correctness has destroyed all comedy forever. It is all about timing and if you have to stumble in case you might offend someone, all comic timing is lost and it is a hopeless cause. Thank God all the greats from the past are recorded for posterity. The channels are awful at putting anything on at prime time
@gary stark: We all remember the great like Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers etc, but in reality the greats come along maybe three times a decade. The favourite great top 20 spreads over 60 years, and we wear rose coloured glasses wondering where the new stuff has gone.