Saying ' things were so much better in my day' is lazy journalism, and comedy is a subjective art form, so the two dove-tail neatly into a Mail moan-piece.
I think Frankie Boyle is about as funny as dysentery on a coaching holiday, but people do like hum, so he has an audience, and that audience is entitled to be offered his entertainment.
I do understand shock-value humour, but Boyle is simply a sledge-hammer, if you hit enough targets hard enough often enough, someone will laugh.
As for Python not being commissioned now, that's a fair point, but that is because it was of its time, as all legendary comedy is.
No-one would commission The Two Ronnies, or Fawlty Towers, or Only Fools And Horses now either, but that is not because if their ethnicity, it's because of their style, which fitted then, and probably does not fit now.
Part of gettin older is slowly losing touch with modern culture. A natural reaction to this is to hark back to your own youthful culture and was still like that, and mourning that it is not, and will never be again.
But fans of Python and The Two Ronnies need to remember that they elbowed out the then-perceived humour of the day like ITMA, and The Billy Cotton Band Show, because that is how humour, and culture evolve and grow.
It's small-minded and mean to grumble about 'the youth of today' and so on and so on, but it fills a few pages in the Mail, and its readers lap it up, so that's OK.