Am I without humour if I can't see why a lot of 'new' comedy is funny?

I’m a funny one I don’t really like comedians they don’t make me laugh with the exception of Harry Hill and years ago Russ Abbott
I hated the likes of benny Hill and Dick Emery

I absolutely loved the comedy series The Windsors. I’m going to buy it on dvd when I can.
I thought it was hilarious.

I have just finished all of Keeping Up Appearances and now on Not Going Out and I find them funny, comedy sitcoms aren't the same anymore. The only ones I like nowadays are Mock The Week and Would I Lie To You.

Some comedians we switch off immediately if we don’t like them, Sarah Millican, who used to make me laugh so much, is one of them. They include acts with unnecessary swearing, crudity and making sneering remarks about famous people - lazy IMO. However Rowan Atkinson and Steve Cougan come to mind as comedians we don’t watch but are excellent as serious actors, eg in Maigret and Philomena. One or two I disliked years ago, eg Tommy Cooper, I now find funny so maybe I appreciate their craft more. A bit of nostalgia too, I expect.

Perhaps as we get older we get less shockable which makes swearing and jokes about bodily functions boring? Some of the so-called humour I've come across just sounds like 'being rude in the playground'!

I like humour with a bit of brain involved.

That should read Benny Hill

Charlie Drake, Bennett Hill and my very best favourite Norman Wisdom. I think I'm a slap stick fan. I guess it depends what you grow up watching and I'm a child of the 50's.

I very much enjoyed the recent repeats of Fawlty Towers on BBC1. So funny, great acting and brilliant timing. Nostalgia-inducing: I doubt the series would get made now. On the other hand, I've never entirely got Morecambe and Wise, though I enjoyed some of their guests such as Andre Previn and Angela Rippon.

I enjoy QI with Sandy Toksvig and Alan Davies and a variety of guests but, again, conversations always turn crude which dislike

I used to love Dara O'Brien in stand up but haven't seen him for ages although he still chairs Mock the Week. Clever humour I always thought. Also loved most things that the late Caroline Aherne wrote. The Royal Family was in my mind utterly brilliant.

I have yet to watch that. I saw it advertised and thought would look on catch up at some point.

Can't stand that shouty Canadian woman who did the jewellery competition programme and has been on Taskmaster. Can't remember her name, I'm pleased to say!!!

Don’t see much humour nowadays like you said mostly just a lot of f words which isn’t all that shocking now or funny!

As I keep saying when we watch various quiz/panel shows these days - "is everyone a comedian nowadays"? Far too many of these 'unknowns' are not in the least bit funny IMHO.

I have always been a bit reserved in my choice of comedy programmes, preferring silly, verbal jests to the more modern swearing for effect jokes. However, with the lack of any alternative to sports viewing, I turned to catch up TV and binge watched Still Game, a Scottish comedy by two very talented writers. It was Hilarious. I am re-watching them now with my husband and I have also bought the box set!! It is not for the faint hearted, but it does show real life characters at their best. I don't think I have ever laughed so much, a real tonic.

I loved Julie Walters (especially in Acorn Antiques), Steve Coogan, Michael Macintyre and Caroline Aherne.
Though not professional comedians, the characters and their comments on Gogglebox often make me laugh out loud.

Shows I loved wouldn`t be allowed now, such as Love they Neighbour, and Mind your Language. Also Please Sir, and George and Mildred. I also loved Morecambe and Wise, but whereas Tommy Cooper would have my husband in stitches, he raised not a titter from me.

Sarah Millican gave Joe Lycett her car when he was a young stand up

I remember when Monty Python was supposed to be hilarious.
I just didn’t get it at all.

I find Sarah Millican offensive I used to love her, now I cringe. That’s not the humour I like . I enjoy David Mitchell, Lee Mack (yes I know he can use bad language) he is so quick witted and has an answer to everything, his timing is perfect. I rarely find Dawn French funny just the odd time she’s raised a smile. I also enjoyed Ghosts.

When I think how we used to roar at Benny Hill and Dick Emery ! We’d probably be condemned to death for it now.
I loved Stanley Baxter - I think he was an amazingly talented man.

Ghosts is hilarious and very touching too. Same to Bob and Paul's fishing show.

I wonder if comedy is like pop music in that you have 'an era'. The comedy that went before my era and that after it generally don't appeal ...but then I don't think it is made for me or people my age in the same way that modern pop music isn't made for us.

Yep, I find sweary an absolute turn-off too. Maybe an age thing?

Yes, I liked Ghosts, gentle humour, and The Detectorists and from the past The Detectives (Jasper Carrot.)
I always thought Billy Connelly was funny too in the past.
I have to say I don’t remember Tom O’Connor at all, so I obviously didn’t watch him on tv.
Would I Lie To you is always a pleasure to watch.
I must whisper the next thing though....I never found Victoria Wood funny or even a bit amusing.

I’m not a fan of modern comedy at all.
I loved ‘Ghosts’ if that’s the right title, about the couple inheriting that crumbling stately home with all its past residents still there. And The Detectorists.
But a lot of modern comedy is cruel and unpleasant. As in Jimmy Carr making horrid jokes about people with disabilities, and the same with Ricky Gervaise.