Past and Present Stand Up Comedy

Not to much has changed for Stand Up Comedy, it basically depends on the comedian. My favorites are Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, and Gaberiel Iglesias. Bill Cosby is one of the very few mainly clean and non swearing comedians. In the video above, this is Bill Cosby when he was young, I am not sure what year it was. But as you watch this video, it is clean but still funny. Most comedians or the ones I have heard have dirty humor, talking about sex or swearing alot, which doesn't make it funny any more, maybe its just me. The other video is my favorite modern comedian, Gabriel Iglesias. Most of his jokes surround himself or stuipd people, such drunks. Between these two comedians, not alot has changed, between them minus the fact they tell different style of jokes, most of Cosby's jokes surround his expereinces and some of Iglesais' jokes surround his experices as well but his weight. But if you listen to him, he also makes fun of people he knows, cops, family, and friends. One major thing they have in common is ethenic background, one is Latino and the other is African American. Now days you see all kinds of races doing jokes on tv, but way back when racism was huge thing, it would be hard for these two men get tv time, because of their race. So as you can see many or little has changed for comedians, it just depends on who you look at and compare and contrast them.