When I was a boy I loved to listen to Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and Robin Williams. When I entered adulthood Eddie Murphy, Andrew Dice Clay, Jim Carry, Dennis Miller, Norm MacDonald, Sam Kinnison, and Bill Hicks shaped my sense of humor. In later years Mitch Hedberg, Anthony Jesilnick, David Cross, Amy Schumer, Brian Regan and Eugene Mirman helped me laugh after work. 4 years later, I can't name a single contemporary or up and coming comic. I find some humor in Silicon Valley, twitter, and some political podcasts, but the comedians Netflix pushes are predictable liberals, and racial and sexual minorities, I don't relate with. I can only laugh at my CIS gendered white maleness so much. Even though I know I should be purged from the Earth, I have a hard time applauding the comedians roasting my existence and my son's. I used to be able to find humor in some of the late night comedians like Letterman, Conan, and Colbert, but even their audiences don't laugh today. They just applaud.
Where are you finding the humor in your life? I'd love to know.
