Comedy and mocking authority

What happened to comedy? And I mean by that is savage mocking comedy against power? Where are the Mads and National Lampoons? What happened to questioning very questionable authority figures? I don't want to sound like an old codger doing this, but I might, and I apologize. Is it the absurdity and insanity of the modern world, pressures placed where the brain stops working, where subversive humor can't have a place? Or perhaps the targets are better at actively fighting any satirical criticism by painting whoever is doing it as pure evil puked up by Satan, and any attempts instantly get played as political bias? (Examples, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, advertising executives, Bernie Goldberg, pretty much anyone of the right wing internet and cable)Where Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon don't bother to face any corrupt political figures on their shows. Is it because corrupt authority has simply evolved into some kind of supervirus that simply lambasts or ignores any criticism of itself? (Example ted Cruz with NASA) What happened?