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So we can like the Cosby show again

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    branie2
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    Must get that sweater again


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    SupaCat95
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    Must have had the same guy who got Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson off.


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    Beechwoodspark
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    I can once again listen to concrete schoolyard by Jurassic 5 with a clear conscience


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    SupaCat95
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    Akrasia wrote: »

    Billy C’s conviction has been overturned

    What does that mean? Are they going to have to reshoot the Family episodes that suggested he did something wrong and apologise the man? I mean they were ready to lynch him after watching that show...... and the bippity and the Boppity and the swinging him from the tallest Mountain Ash tree.


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    Akrasia
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    SupaCat95 wrote: »
    What does that mean? Are they going to have to reshoot the Family episodes that suggested he did something wrong and apologise the man? I mean they were ready to lynch him after watching that show...... and the bippity and the Boppity and the swinging him from the tallest Mountain Ash tree.

    I don’t remember that episode, just Bill being a great role model to Theo the lovable rogue and Rudee the precocious scamp


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    SupaCat95
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    I don’t remember that episode, just Bill being a great role model to Theo the lovable rogue and Rudee the precocious scamp

    Ahhhhh much more innocent times when Americas favourite family man and on screen gynecologist, earned his PhD in Education. Wow how times have changed.


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    Hangdogroad
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    Hated the Cosby Show from the beginning. Not because I thought there was something off about Bill, just didn't find it funny.


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    Thelonious Monk
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOu_MsjKp6s


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    SupaCat95
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Hated the Cosby Show from the beginning. Not because I thought there was something off about Bill, just didn't find it funny.

    I thought it was a bit stupid also. It was Americas favourite TV show. Maybe it was a cultural thing or just the start of dumbing down TV with the bippity boppity boobity......... now stop that Bill.


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    SupaCat95
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOu_MsjKp6s

    Cant be showing that, culturally inappropriate as the man has been found "not guilty".


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    Thelonious Monk
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    He was a great stand up in his day a bit of a groundbreaker. His jumper game was dope too.


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    jippo nolan
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Hated the Cosby Show from the beginning. Not because I thought there was something off about Bill, just didn't find it funny.

    Too perfect!


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    SupaCat95
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    He was a great stand up in his day a bit of a groundbreaker. His jumper game was dope too.

    A little before my time I thought the Cosby show was like watching paint dry on the wall. It just didnt transcend well culturally for me at the time.


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    milehip
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    Mandela did 27 years for nothing, Cosby got out in 3, who says black men can't get a break in the American justice system?


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    pgj2015
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    milehip wrote: »
    Mandela did 27 years for nothing, Cosby got out in 3, who says black men can't get a break in the American justice system?



    Great man Mandela, who they locked up, just because he was black.


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    KungPao
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    He was great, in fairness, as Uncle Phil.

    Great show.


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    Quantum Erasure
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    SupaCat95 wrote: »
    Must have had the same guy who got Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson off.
    That happens too, more than youd think


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    TheValeyard
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    KungPao wrote: »
    He was great, in fairness, as Uncle Phil.

    Great show.

    Uncle Phil was far better. And a judge!

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    KungPao
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    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Uncle Phil was far better. And a judge!
    And Shredder. Avery was the man.


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    MOR316
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    SupaCat95 wrote: »
    Must have had the same guy who got Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson off.

    Shows how much you know about either case then :rolleyes:

    Never liked Bill Cosby. Nothing to do with any accusations or anything, just never found him funny.

    Each to their own. Comedy is subjective


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    kowloonkev
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    I think it's important to separate art from the artist. Kevin Spacey for example is a great actor and I don't get any less enjoyment from watching his films today than I would have ten years ago.


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    TheValeyard
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    kowloonkev wrote: »
    I think it's important to separate art from the artist. Kevin Spacey for example is a great actor and I don't get any less enjoyment from watching his films today than I would have ten years ago.

    Pity what happened to House of Cards

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    Mad_maxx
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    What makes Cosby an even bigger swine is he portrayed himself as a clean cut ( almost " white bread ") family entertainer who often lectured the black community about lacking family stability

    Hypocrite


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    Mad_maxx
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    kowloonkev wrote: »
    I think it's important to separate art from the artist. Kevin Spacey for example is a great actor and I don't get any less enjoyment from watching his films today than I would have ten years ago.

    Always found him a bit odd myself, he's great in The Usual Suspects however


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    Mad_maxx
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    pgj2015 wrote: »
    Great man Mandela, who they locked up, just because he was black.

    They locked him up because he was such a political threat


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    Hangdogroad
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    What makes Cosby an even bigger swine is he portrayed himself as a clean cut ( almost " white bread ") family entertainer who often lectured the black community about lacking family stability

    Hypocrite

    Strange thing is the amount of black Americans (and many white) who support him. There's a fairly large uptake among African Americans of conspiracy theories that there's an organised campaign to discredit successful black celebrities. You see it in the cases of O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson and Cosby in particular.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    They locked him up because he was such a political threat

    nothing to do with the bombings then?


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    pgj2015
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    They locked him up because he was such a political threat


    oh, Racist.


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    murpho999
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    He was a great stand up in his day a bit of a groundbreaker. His jumper game was dope too.

    He was only groundbreaker as he was a black comedian making it on to TV shows for white audiences.
    He effectively told white man jokes to white audience.

    If you want a real groundbreaking comedian of the time then look at Richard Pryor who started off as a Bill Cosby clone but then went away and came back as a ground breaking black comedian that inspired others.


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    whisky_galore
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    Never found it funny, didnt like very many of the US comedies that RTE imported.


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