Is this something you have to like? Absolutely not. I personally don’t like it. Many successful comedians don’t like it. Some comics are good at it and some suck at it and you don’t have to like the good ones, just as you don’t have to like prop comics or comics who do their whole set about being gay or comics who do 100% battle of the sexes humour or insult comics or political comics. It is however a legitimate, common, respected type of comedy; saying it’s not comedy is like saying jazz isn’t music because you don’t like jazz.
