cosby

[Supe]

I'm going to float it out there that it's pretty hard to get someone to report sexual assault in the first place. Add the beloved celebrity part to it and I think it's easy to see why people may have waited. Beverly Johnson mentions she didn't want to take down a successful African-American man. I think this can be compared, as much as I hate to bring it up, the priest abuse cases.

Will we ever know the truth? Hard to say. It just seems like a lot of people coming out of the woodwork.

If anything, I think Bill Cosby was more beloved now (or immediately prior to the accusations) than he was early in his career.

 

[csb]

Sure, because you have a bunch of 80s kids looking back with nostalgia. I'd also point out that his stand up career goes back to the 60s, as well as having being on I Spy. He was big before The Cosby Show. I don't think you can ignore the celebrity part at anytime during the allegations. Beloved, sure, but he was a celebrity during all of these.

 

[Dleg]

I had some of his stand-up records (vinyl) when I was a kid. They were pretty hilarious, but he also had some pretty raunchy and adult stuff, like talking about doing cocaine, and the now-becoming-infamous spanish fly routine, which I recently heard a part of again in reference to his current accusations, and it's kind of creepy.

So I think the kids having nostalgia about the Cosby of the 80s didn't know the Cosby of the 70s.

 

[Road Guy]

I put the snowball in the freezer.... and I waited....

 

[DVINNY]

.....where there is so much smoke.....

there is usually fire.

one or two, and I'd question, but this many? I think there's a pattern.

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

I had some of his stand-up records (vinyl) when I was a kid. They were pretty hilarious, but he also had some pretty raunchy and adult stuff, like talking about doing cocaine, and the now-becoming-infamous spanish fly routine, which I recently heard a part of again in reference to his current accusations, and it's kind of creepy.

So I think the kids having nostalgia about the Cosby of the 80s didn't know the Cosby of the 70s.

To be fair, he shouldn't be judged on rape based on what he said in his routines. Have you heard some of the crazy stuff Jim Gaffigan says? If anyone took him seriously he would be getting rectally hydrated right about now.

 

[Supe]

And Bob Sagat should be on the FBI's most wanted list.

 

[MA_PE]

I never thought Cosby was funny. The cosby show sucked. I think he took advantage of good-looking impressionable girls because he had the power to do it. He probably used the date rape technique because he didn't want them getting attached and starting a scandal. I can buy into the idea that each girl thought she was the only one and was too intimidated to say something. as more come forward, they realize their no alone and get emboldened enough to come forward. As CSB said it's got some parallels to the Catholic priest scandal.

 

[knight1fox3]

And Bob Sagat should be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Care to elaborate? Not to derail the thread or anything. Just curious.

 

[csb]

It's a thread about Bill Cosby (allegedly) raping women. How has it NOT been derailed.

First:

Second:

Bob Sagat is a filthy comedian. FILTHY. Here's his article for HuffPost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-saget/dick-jokes-why-they-are-relevant_b_5475145.html

 

[ALBin517]

Has to be weird for his old Cosby Show costars who have become dependent on the show residuals over the years. Now nobody will show his reruns and the residuals will dry up.

I know they have got a ton of cash over the years and it's tough to feel bad for them. But I'm sure they have got into some investments and mortgages with the expectation of getting Cosby Show income that they won't get now.

 

[Supe]

And Bob Sagat should be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Care to elaborate? Not to derail the thread or anything. Just curious.

What CSB said. Danny Tanner has to be one of the raunchiest comics who's ever lived.

 

[engineergurl]

And Bob Sagat should be on the FBI's most wanted list.

Care to elaborate? Not to derail the thread or anything. Just curious.

What CSB said. Danny Tanner has to be one of the raunchiest comics who's ever lived.

Have you never watched Tosh.0?

 

[snickerd3]

^Bob Sagat is way raunchier than Tosh.0. I'll sit and watch Tosh

 

[Supe]

Tosh.O isn't raunchy. Sagat's comedy could never be broadcast on basic cable in a million years.

 

[engineergurl]

Tosh.O isn't raunchy. Sagat's comedy could never be broadcast on basic cable in a million years.

He lit is crotch on fire on the one we watched yesterday, how is that not raunchy?

 

[Supe]

Tosh.O isn't raunchy. Sagat's comedy could never be broadcast on basic cable in a million years.

He lit is crotch on fire on the one we watched yesterday, how is that not raunchy?

Sagat would take lighting a crotch on fire, and turn it into a hot corpse necrophilia joke that would make Hitler blush.

 

[engineergurl]

Tosh.O isn't raunchy. Sagat's comedy could never be broadcast on basic cable in a million years.

He lit is crotch on fire on the one we watched yesterday, how is that not raunchy?

Sagat would take lighting a crotch on fire, and turn it into a hot corpse necrophilia joke that would make Hitler blush.

I won't argue he wouldn't, but that just makes him raunchier

 

[frazil]

are we talking about Funniest Home Videos Bob Saget?

 

[Road Guy]

we went to go see "You Might be a redneck" guy. Jeff Foxworthy... really surprised how "dirty" most of his jokes were... (pleasantly) he was pretty GD funny!