Better than a very touching "The Cosby Show"....

Personally, the only one I care about is Weinstein, because he indirectly had a hand in some of my favourite movies.

Gibson, meh... I can happily go the rest of my life without seeing anything he's done again.

Louis CK is a comic genius, but I won't be giving him any more money and Cosby....well, you're perfectly entitled to do that... although why you'd want to submit yourself to actually watching the Cosby show is beyond me. Either way, it won't do Bill any good while he's dying in a prison cell.

@ChaosEngine -- Meh, I don't care except to the extent that any actual assholery prevents or negatively influences future media with him in it. (Which to be fair sounds like it has actually happened...)

Now if you excuse me, I'm going to watch Mel Gibson and Weinstein movies, Louis CK standup, and reruns of the Cosby Show.

@Jinx
@enoch
@VoodooV

Fair point on acceptance, I guess seeing people on TV smoke it and continue to be productive members of society has its benefits in dispelling the fear around it. Not the best comparison but kind of like how the Cosby Show, Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs helped bridge racial tolerance in the 80s by exposing whites to black people on TV and in movies.

Totally with you guys on the hypocrisy of policy, and the libertarian argument.

I don't know how much pharmaceuticals actually care about pot legalization. I mean at this point the likes of Pfizer don't do that much actual research. They buy up other drug companies (Allergan is the recent big example) as well as benefiting from government funded basic research.

If anything what they've become specialized in is getting the drugs approved and adhering to regulation (which they probably helped draft and make complicated to keep their advantage). So if anything they should be well placed to be the first to sell pot based drugs in scale when they get fully legalized.

Prisons and law enforcement is a different issue, they do lose out a lot.

...And one more thing that I think is interesting:

In many cases, even if it is 100% proven that somebody did some very bad things, I don't personally think that should (necessarily) negate our respect for the good things they did.

Michael Jackson may have been a serial pedo, which is pretty damning in general. BUT, *that* doesn't make his music bad, or make people who like his music bad.

Cosby almost certainly did drug and have sex with a whole bunch of women, without their consent. That is a very shitty thing to do. But it doesn't make his impact on comedy any less real. It doesn't make The Cosby Show a shitty TV program, that I/we should feel ashamed of having enjoyed.

OJ Simpson almost certainly got away with murder. I think that makes him a scumbag, but I can accept that many people think/thought of him as "OJ Simpson, running back, actor, announcer, etc." rather than "OJ Simpson, murderer". And even though I personally dislike the notion that he got away with killing people, I can watch video of him playing football and appreciate his undeniable talent, or watch him in The Naked Gun and still chuckle.


Sports figures like Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong are a different story, at least for me personally. Even though doping or using steroids isn't even remotely comparable to the objective badness of pedophilia, rape, or murder ... those two guys were respected specifically for their sports accomplishments, which they "cheated" to obtain. For me personally at least, that completely invalidates those accomplishments, which were pretty much the only reasons to look up to them. In the meantime, I might think that OJ is a terrible human being, but at least I can still respect what he did on the football field.

Maybe that is a weird distinction to make, but it makes sense to me, anyway.

ie: see: "The Cosby Show"
the Huxstables seemed to do ok at avoiding confusion.

>> ^Yogi:

I agree, he should be up there with Carlin and Pryor but he went too mainstream for some people I guess so he gets left out of it.
Sorta like how Louis CK points out that Seinfeld is a genius at comedy but most people see him for only his show and being an actor instead of a comic.

I don't think it's that; The Cosby Show was just like his standup comedy. Hell, quite a few of the shows were just acting out the stories he used to tell on stage. I think it's just that he wasn't the least bit edgy. He was hilarious but he was very "safe". No controversy, no swearing, no risky topics. I think he's just seen as a naive old man by most people who are my age or younger.

But he seems to be known more for his pudding commercials than any of his work now, so maybe you're right in that sense.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

It's a shame how much flak Cosby takes these days. He was such a great storyteller comic. He doesn't get the recognition he deserves.


I agree, he should be up there with Carlin and Pryor but he went too mainstream for some people I guess so he gets left out of it.

Sorta like how Louis CK points out that Seinfeld is a genius at comedy but most people see him for only his show and being an actor instead of a comic.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

It's a shame how much flak Cosby takes these days. He was such a great storyteller comic. He doesn't get the recognition he deserves.


I also like his stand up/sit down comedies.

fat girls in small bathing suits with gaudy tattoos and dirty tomboy mouths are about as attractive as bill cosby in a sexy maid outfit eating jello pudding seductively. now if you'll excuse me, i have just had a cosby show fan art inspiration.

>> ^brycewi19:

What's next, the CW's Cheers?


The Cosby Show!

I want to see ER version!

>> ^laura:

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(I'm not singling you out here, ant...you happen to have a LOT of pqueued vids w/ 9 votes!)


Fixed and thanks. Oh sure, you're stalking me. J/K!

That's OK. Some of these old pqueued videos are good!

This was one of my all time favorite Cosby Show moments . . .

>> ^EmptyFriend:
oh man i remember this vividly! good find


Cosbys Show rocked.

>> ^Sarzy:
Region blocked! Boo-urns.


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