Everyone always fixates on things of the past being part of a “golden age” of what people want to deem as the “best of all time.” For example, the sixties being the “golden age” of movies, or the nineties being the “golden age” of hip-hop. In reality, these opinion-based “golden ages” illustrate at what point in time that form of entertainment reached a pinnacle that the current day society was not used to. The best way to describe this nuance would be Elvis Presley’s over sexualized performance of “Hound Dog” on the “Ed Sullivan Show” on Oct. 28, 1956, that propelled rock and roll into the new-age provocative style we see today that was advanced by the British Invasion a few years later. These “golden ages” are more like major progressive movements that have designed the modern day form of entertainment, and that can be related to the art of comedy.

Comedy was seen to have reached it’s peak in the age of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor who were the pioneers of raw, uncensored, and downright hysterical comedy in the eighties that was unlike the clean and witty types of Rodney Dangerfield and Don Rickles. Murphy and Pryor were not in the business for cheap laughs but a whole new form of humor that tapped into the laughing bones people never knew they had. For millennials, this comedy still exists even though it’s not seen as the “golden age” of comedy and these three young, and already massively successful comedians have the talents to prove comedy is as good as the age of Pryor and Murphy.

Aziz Ansari

Lots of comedians make fun of their own generation for some cheap laughs that relate to their audience members, but never have we seen a talent have an entire act committed to bashing the brains out of a generation. Lucky for Aziz Ansari, the millennial generation can provide for probably the most material out of any other age group. With his constant mocking of oblivious millennials with this one of a kind impression, Aziz truly understands the stupidity of young people these days, because he is one. Whether it is awkward love, social media, or making fun of stereotypes, like black guys being overly impressed by magic tricks, Aziz is aware of all of societies' miscues because he is a part of most of them. He talks about himself being subdued by the over sexualized America he lives with raunchy but relatable stories, and when it comes to hip-hop, Aziz will discuss his meeting with Jay-Z and Kanye West as if it were his own unbelievable, Americanized Indian teenager’s long time dream.

Kevin Hart

This outrageously small black man, fathered by a crackhead, managed to be the most successful out of all the comedians on my short list. I am talking Eddie Murphy successful, except out of the seemingly hundreds of movies he has made in his short tenure of fame, so far he has not made a single hit. Nonetheless, what really matters for Hart is the stand-up, and to say he is absolutely trouncing the world of comedy is an understatement. All of his major stand-up films including “Laugh at My Pain,” “Let Me Explain,” and the soon to be released “What Now?” describe a part of his life and the material is mainly focused on that time of his career as a struggling comedian. For example, “Let Me Explain” title is supposed to illustrate his life post-divorce where in his special he admits to being a bad husband and talks about his challenges as a father and husband through humorous embellishments and failures, like when he discussed how he was so happy after ending his relationship that he just went on a walk one day.

Amy Schumer

The newest to fame on this list, and probably the most influential of the three comedians, is Amy Schumer. Schumer’s claim to fame started around when she roasted Charlie Sheen harder than any other comedian on the “Comedy Central Roast” while being an unknown at the time. Her fame utterly heightened when her hit Comedy Central show, "Inside Amy Schumer," grasped the attention of the public for putting out some of the most pervasive, sick, but totally topical sketches that have not been seen on Comedy Central since the "Chappelle Show." My favorite sketch being the one where Schumer completely satirizes American rape culture by parodying the "Friday Night Lights" town as a place where the small town Texan high school football fans wanted rape to be allowed for their unfocused players while the coach wanted to disband the twisted rape culture of the townsfolk.

The sketch is cringe worthy but very relatable to the commonplace actions seen in today’s society that Schumer is trying to eliminate which is false stereotypes towards woman and sinister instances of rape in the United States by young men, and most recently her fight on gun violence with President Obama and her cousin Senator Schumer after two of her fans were shot to death while on their way to see her hit comedy “Trainwreck."

To say the likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and above all else, George Carlin were not legendary is blasphemy. But, to say that the likes of Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, Kevin Hart, Daniel Tosh, and Louis C.K. are not just as golden is being very obtuse. Comedy has proven time and time again it will never die, and the future “golden ages” will absolutely hold up to your supposed “golden age.”