Melbourne? Prisoner dude! (Prisoner Cell Block H here in the UK of course.) Where I first saw an English born Australian actress named Rowena Wallace in a few episodes. She later went on to appear in Sons and Daughters for many years. And was my older lady crush throughout my late teens and early 20's.
Comedy is no longer comedy. It's all about many people you can insult and get away with it by saying "it's just comedy mate". Sadly many "comedians" have gone down this road of insulting people who are paying you your salary. Comedy was funny about 10 years ago when real comedians were actually funny.
You completely neglected to mention the most important aspect of the whole problem in your glum diatribe, slick. People online and some in audiences, are delicate little people and find offence in anything. We know which one you are
Actually, phobia, more accurately describes an irresistible compulsion to *escape away* from a particular something when confronted by it. Fear, rational or irrational, only describes half of it; and quite inadequately. Early psychiatry coined the word because Phobos was the god of terror in war for the Ancient Greeks. The physical compulsion that would grip an army to make them flee in a rout. Alexander the Great would pray before every battle for _phobia_ to descend on his enemies in the field, hence giving him the result he wanted.
Yer your sense of humour is fine. I didn't sense any here either. But give Andrew Lawrence set a go. If you still don't laugh then you have had a bad day.