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As a conservative, I thought Michelle Wolf was brilliant
By Kent R. Kroeger (May 4, 2018)
American comedy is at a low-ebb right now and its not Michelle Wolf’s fault.
I can’t place my finger on why, but I just don’t laugh at comedians the way I did in the mid-1970s when Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Saturday Night Live were leading a comedy insurgency.
I was younger, of course, but it was also a time when former establishment comedians like George Carlin, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks had guided mainstream comedy out of the safe, status-quo-friendly humor of the 1950s and early-1960s (though Bob Newhart is the most under-rated stand up comic in history), to a whole new genre of socially-relevant and subversive comedians: Joan Rivers, Robin Williams, Cheech and Chong, David Letterman, Steven Wright, and others.
[Cheech and Chong? Really?]
Another comedy renaissance twenty years later would give us Bill Hicks (dead), Sam Kinison (dead), Mitch Hedberg (dead), and the brilliant (and still alive) Dave Chappelle.
So, what has changed?
While nothing is as unfunny as analyzing comedy, now seems like the time to do it because many of us feel something is wrong.
