Spare me with a blunt butter knife please. Press is press I suppose. Andy was a comic. Granted a comic with powerful people around him- hence the 'ahead of his time' tag instead of the 'whack job with warts' obituary. But, he was a comic.
Comics are a special breed.
They will try anything for a laugh. They don't care if it doesn't get a laugh all the time, most are up there for themselves not you. Their verbal therapy if you will. Which works for all when it works. And underneath, I don't think, he was all that funny.