Ecuse me for name-dropping, but I recently interviewed Ade Edmondson, and he talked about his passion for playing mandolin with his band The Bad Shepherds.
After a career in comedy, Ade confesses that he now finds the concept of trying to make people laugh, essentially by bombarding them with 'humour' to be quite unappealing, and given the approach of most modern commedians, Iam inclined to agree with him.
i am perfectly happy to concede that this may be a 'generation' thing - we are both in our late fifties, and it is perfectly possible that modern humour is simply not designed for us, in the same way that 'alternative' comedy served as a kick against the dinner-suited racisist chauvenists who populated clubs and tv in the 1970's.