I did this rant way better. I also think Roger may have done a similar one, but I'm not sure, it may have been LMNO, about humour and politics.
Anyway, I say mine was better not just because I have a huge ego (although I do) but because I didn't try to claim an unspecified "old guard" (who presumably includes me) weren't doing things the way I didn't like (how would I know, after all) and concentrated on a particular style of comedy useful in political arguments and discourses, for cutting people down to size.
I also remembered something you apparently forgot Shaman - that good comedy requires an audience to work well. OK, so you and some other people laugh at some politicians. So? Doesn't make a blind bit of differnece. You don't even make up 0.1% of the eligible vote. You don't matter. But if you can make their supporters laugh at them, if you can turn the politicians into figures of ridicule in the eyes of large amounts of the population, make people feel sheepish and somewhat ashamed of looking up to or defending them....well, then you may be onto something.