"...Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jack Benny.... Red Skelton,....]. That was surely a vintage generation over there. And how about the Marx Bros, the Mills Bros, the Three Stooges?

I loved them as a kid, but Hope & Benny were too formulaic after I got older....though no one could deliver lines like Hope & Benny! Red Skelton was truly creative and often improvised on 'live' TV. The Marx bros. and Three Stooges had flashes of brilliance, but much of their material depended on the times. They are 'classics', worth studying and appreciating, but not what I'd choose for daily fare.\
(I will say, there was not much funnier than watching Harpo 'hand someone his leg' as a comedic non-sequitur.)

There are many 'forms' of comedy... from stand-up to simple joke telling to script-writing/directing, and I like some prime examples in various genrés. \

I DO wish Robin Williams & Jonathan Winters could "turn it off" occasionally, though they are brilliant most of the time. (One of the funniest routines I ever saw was Winters & Cliff Arquette improvising on the Jack Paar show about 'sail cats'...moggies which never made it across the road, and how useful they were when dry.)