Sandman - I honestly don't know what more to say to you...
The 1930s were nearly 90 years ago..
The world, media and mass entertainment were almost completely different...
Mass education was different..
Everything was different.....

For all your knowledge of that era,
you seem to have painted yourself into a very tight dark corner
because of it..

I will repeat, you really seem too unaware of modern comedy
to have any meaningful opinion on it...

btw.. i don't need youtube clips,
I grew up in a council house
on a diet of classic [and rubbish] 1960s and 70s sit-coms and comedians...

..and I've not exactly been brainwashed into voting ukip...

Attacks on 'low brow' mass popular culture, aren't just snobbish, but can also be very patronising...