I suspect that every generation feels
it is blessed with an abundance of good comedians.
I feel that way about the current era. We have the slapstick greats of Will Ferrill and Jim Carey, We have the versatility of Robin Williams, Chris Rock and Will Smith. I love Richard Pryor and Cameron Diaz.
There are others I have left off either because they are too new to know if they really have a sense of comedy, or just read good scripts, or because they are currently locked into a single character or, for a large group, their humor is based on a package of cheap political jokes.
Political comedians don't weather very well if you start looking at 1950s videos; the political jokes seldom make sense.
We are blessed with all the non-political great comedians.