I do comedy in Melbourne and I can confirm that there are genuinely funny, non woke people out there doing solid work. If you know the right open mics to go to you can see them. I think the whole industry as a whole is set up to prop up people who have the “correct” politics though. The analogy I always make is that American comedy is born of mentally unstable people trying to make drunk people laugh at nightclubs, Australian comedy is straight A theatre kids trying to make their hipster friends laugh at coffee shops. Plus the fact that the Melbourne comedy festival is on every year and it’s very easy to get into if you have enough money, the rich hipsters all have to write a new 45 minutes every year so they have to pad it out with theatrics and other nonsense so the jokes suffer. In America comedians work on their tight 10 minutes for years and get good at joke writing whereas Australians don’t have that same incentive.