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

I enjoy 'Yes Minister' type of humour. It's very clever and I wish that there were more such programmes.

Not 29 yr old, a 10 year old it should have been.

I wouldn’t let a 29;year old watch Sarah Millican? Joe Lycet is embarrassingly pathetic, switched off Sewing Bee because of him
also that loud Canadian woman, she is dreadful. I like a quick wit that doesn’t rely on a steady stream of expletives.

I've an inkling I may have seen it, but I didn't know it was Ronnie's daughter.

MissA
Ronnie Corbett’s daughter has an antique-y boutique-y type shop in Brighton.
It’s called Four Candles.
I think that’s wonderful, I can imagine that he was a lovely dad.

I love most comedy.
Not Mrs. Brown's boys, though.
Not dad's army.
Not cannon and ball.
No problem with swearing.
I like father Ted.
The two Ronnies (four candles)
Peep show.
The inbetweeners.
Loved Les Dawson; there is going to be some unseen footage released soon, as it would have been his 90th soon.

Morecambe &Wise /Ken Dodd /Les Dawson.
No F needed to have me in stitches.

Fleabag isn’t funny at all. Only watched a few minutes, that was enough.

I'm enjoying listening to Conversations from a long marriage on BBC Sounds. OH downloaded them for me as he thought they would make me smile and they do. Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play the couple.

I recall seeing Chic Murray on TV decades ago & enjoyed his surreal material. Then in the 1990's an American stand-up came on UK television with clever material in a similar vein to Chic's & I became hooked - his name is Steven Wright.

Steven's material is clean & swearing-free. I don't know if he still performs but there is loads of it on YouTube going back to his very first performance.

If you like Jewish humour there are lots of good clips on You tube - just google Jewish Folks telling Jewish Jokes. They often make me laugh out loud.

I've rarely found French and Saunders funny although I did enjoy Ab Fab. We saw them in a tent in Battersea Park when they had just started out and they were not funny at all. Rik Mayall was there, in his Kevin Turvey role reciting "Fish that I like" and he was very funny.

Dave Allen (I'm sure he would be censored now). Black Books. Billy Connolly and Victoria Wood. I used to like Sarah Millican but there's too much talk about bodily functions. Joan Rivers also very funny.

I suppose some of the subject matter of the older commedians would upset some people hence so much dependence upon bodily functions.

A Netflix series that we've enjoyed is The Kominsky Method with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin - what I would call wise cracking Jewish humour. The first series was funnier than the second because Alan Arkin left at the end of hte first.

Peter Kay for me!

Sir Ken Dodd.
When he did his afternoon matinee shows he'd check hi s audience and then announce he was changing the name ,of the show to 'Fifty Shades of Beige!"

GrowingOldDisgracefully I really couldn’t get into Fleabag either, but funnily enough I don’t recall the swearing!!

Somebody mentioned Jonathan Pie and I really do like his videos. But I also found myself turning into him in my last job as I was so frustrated with our education system!

Well - a great variety of responses and thanks to those who have made me feel that perhaps I'm not a Victorian prude. As several posters have said, humour that has been thought out and has a clever puch line seems so much funnier than listening to someone being told to 'f**k off' . I don't get Mrs. Brown's Boys either, and Mrs Brown makes me feel uneasy!

Growing0ldDisgracefully Oh, me too. I think it's a generational thing. I watched the firstfew minutes of the first episode of Fleabag and immediately realised that it wasn't for me. I'm not normally a prude, but the 'f' word in just about every sentence wasn't funny and wasn't necessary - in fact, it becomes just plain boring.

I am considered strange in my household because I just didn't find Fleabag funny. Load of rubbish I thought.

No, you’re definitely not without humour. Different things make different people laugh, visual humour, slapstick, sit cons, stand up, sketch comedy, all different - I like lots of modern comedy, many do not swear

I absolutely love Sarah Millican and my ten year old also does, swear words and all!! I absolutely love Joe Lycett - I was completely unaware of him until Sewing Bee and now I watch lots of clips of his shows. Also I’m watching lots of Peter Kay and Michael McIntyre clips. I went to watch Tom O’Connor somewhere as a child, Cilla was on too.

Remember when Derek Nimmo passed away? I'd watched a modern comedy which was ok but not hilarious, then during the news a short burst of "All Gas and Gaiters" was shown - which was funnier than the previous programme. I laughed more during that three minutes than in the previous half-hour. It just shows that comedy has moved with the times but isn't necessarily funnier.

I absolutely hate comedians banging on about their sexual orientation. I do not care what they do in the privacy of their own home... but why spell it out. I don't care - just get to the f...ing punchline!! And an f bomb is sometimes effective but not if it's every second word! Gross!

I’ve never liked Sarah Millican’s style of comedy. Stand up wise I love observational comedy like Peter Kay, Michael Macintyre and Ed Byrne. Would I lie to you is very funny and Lee Mack seems much better in an Ad Lib situation rather than a script.
Recently I’ve been following some new comedians on Tic Tok, definitely worth looking on there.

I remember Al Read. Laughing my head off Sunday lunchtimes about 60 years ago. I have his cd from about 6 years ago. The driving test, the daughter in law, getting home after the pub etc.

I’m not a fan of comedy, I often just don’t seem to get it, or just find it too insulting and sweary.
Lemongrove mentioned The Detectorists, that I did enjoy, it was lovely.
My youngest daughter and I can never have enough of One Foot in the Grave, her children think it’s awful.