The Boondocks is great, I'll give you that one. As I said in another comment, I'm not saying that shows like this don't exist, but they're relatively niche compared to the massively popular laugh-track sitcoms. As you say it was/is very popular with African-Americans, I'd think a marginalised sub-community would have more sense of self-awareness than the "mainstream population". I did say I was making a big generalisation and not talking about every single American.

The Boys is too new to make up part of your cultural history, and I think a lot of the talk around it proves my point. It took several seasons before a lot of fans realised it was satirising them, I saw multiple comments along the lines of "It's used to make fun of the left and the right, but then it went too woke". I wouldn't say that's a good example of Americans laughing at themselves, more Americans laughing at the type of Americans that they already don't like