Lonesome EJ has a point when he says much of the old minstrel humor is too naive for these times. Comic songs such as Old Dan Tucker (many versions sung by various minstrel companies) have little that is humorous now. We have become too sophisticated.

Racial humor is difficult in public now, but it still thrives in the closet and in isolated groups that have not been contaminated by political correctness. Go to some of the Anabaptist colonies who live in closed communities (the Hutterites, for example), where the inhabitants still tell jokes of an evening, quite a number based on race.