Anyone else think Phil lost his sense of humor? Modern Phil just can't make any good jokes
He never had a sense of humor. He knew what jokes were, in theory, and tried to emulate what others said and did, but missed the "sense" part of the sense of humor.
This extends to his concept of "observational comedy" which to him is simply pointing out the most generic stereotype that's associated with whatever he's looking at. Women get raped and are whores, blacks are criminals who occasionally play basketball, Asians look and talk funny and eat weird food, Muslims are terrorists and Mexicans are illegals and work in gardening.
This by itself is not funny.
Not without the proper setup, and some wit added to it.
Even if it was funny, then it's jokes that ANYONE CAN DO, and if that's the case, he's as funny as everyone else.
So, he's either simply not funny, or he's about as funny as the most basic lifeform.
This has never been more evident nowadays, when someone on Twitter can be completely destroyed with a single, clever one-line response, and those tweets get tens of thousands of likes.