I have enjoyed some of his comedy, but the "America is the freest country in the world" stuff should really stop at this point. We're ranked 11th. IMO, too many people are brainwashed by American Exceptionalism so much so that I don't even think it should be given a pass in a joke. That said, I totally agree this is the greatest time to be alive and in (one of) the greatest locations on earth to live (the U.S.). Related, here's my favorite visualization of that data from the BBC:
Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature gets into some of this as well.
Very cool.