One of the few things people seem to agree on lately is that the best days of comedy are long past, even if we disagree about the cause. Woke culture is strangling comedy, spouted The Spectator earlier this year. The Web site Refinery29 accepts the premise that comedy is being asphyxiated but blames comedians such as Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle for “choking the life out of it.” According to Noam Dworman, the owner of the Comedy Cellar in New York’s Greenwich Village, however, “we’re in a golden age of comedy.”
“I think there is a higher level of comedian now than there’s ever been,” he says, citing young comics such as Marcello Hernandez, Jeff Arcuri, and Tyler Fischer. And he’s seen them all. “If I showed you old recordings from the 90s, the shows were not nearly as good as they are now,” he says. “It’s not just that they’re dated. You can hear it in the response of the audience.”
