From Comedy Central’s Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore: A brilliant takedown of Cosby’s creepy evasions and excuses, featuring newly revealed details from that 2005 deposition. Wilmore also plays clips from an early Cosby comedy album and from the Cosby Show much later in his career in which Cosby jokes about … drugging women for sex.
Evidently, as Wilmore points out, Cosby thought that his hobby of repeatedly drugging and raping women was hilarious.
And here’s Nightly Show writer Holly Walker delivering her verdict on Cosby, rap style. Why rap? Because Cosby hates rap music.
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FUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUU, Mr Cosby.
Fuck you for making me think of you as a funny father figure and being a creepy, raping asshole and FUUUCK YOU for what you’ve done to all those girls (“girls” used intentionally because they were overwhelmingly a fuckton younger than you).
And one last FUCK YOU for thinking that am effort to release YOUR OWN GODDAMN TESTIMONY is an attempt to “smear” you.
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I watched The Cosby Show as a child, but as I got older I did find Cosby creepy somehow. I doubt I was picking up on anything, but let’s say I wasn’t shocked when the revelations started coming to light.
I always thought Philip Banks was a better tv father.
It is darkly ironic that his Pound Cake Speech led to opening his 2005 deposition.
Wow, those clips from Cosby’s comedy show and TV show are an excellent example of rape culture. Just the fact that in the time and place those jokes were made he felt completely comfortable making them and no one in the public at large (to my knowledge anyway) even batted an eye. It kind of makes me wonder who we know and love in the entertainment industry today we will find out tomorrow does terrible things. I remember as a kid fantasizing that Cliff Huxtable was my dad because my own father was so hateful and abusive…just makes me sad for all of us taken in by him and especially for his victims; knowing he was perceived as a loving father figure had to be so galling for them.
That article about Trump’s appeal is pretty much spot-on. He won’t win the nomination–his 24% isn’t likely to grow, considering that everyone already knows who he is and has made up their minds about him. Honestly, I’m hoping his ego drives him to run as an independent after the GOP nominates Jeb (most likely outcome). He’ll draw off the GOP base, leaving a clear run for the Democrat.
I think Bill Cosby was before my time… so I have pretty much zero emotional ties to the guy. All I know is that when it finally gets through to the general public that he’s truly a rapist, chances are pretty low that anyone will be apologizing to the (now 48) women victims they relentlessly shit on up to now.
Aye. Keeping my fingers crossed for Trump to stick around. Would make the upcoming election season a lot less dicey.
But, um, where’s the article? I only saw commentary on Cosby, above?
I second THAT emotion.
Also,
Anymore, my primary emotion about Bill Cosby is one of profound disappointment. I get spikes of anger and disgust, but the resting state is disappointment.
Which is not to tell anybody else how to feel about him.
And on bad days I get to thinking, who’s next? Who else raped all his life? Am I gonna find out Fred Rogers hurt people next? God I hope not.
@Falconer,
I felt deeply saddened when I found out the truth about Rolf Harris. With Jimmy Saville it was plain disgust because even as a child he creeped me out. But I’d always loved Rolf Harris’ shows and public persona. Finding out he’s this horrible, remorseless predator cuts away at my childhood memories.
@Falconer
We already have the answer to that; Jared the Subway guy. The question is who’s next after Jared.
David, I was just wondering if by chance you were going to open up the comments section on the new comments policy again? I totally understand if you don’t want to do that, but I had a couple of things that I wanted to say and I don’t want to derail a different thread. I will be away from my computer most of the day so I won’t have a chance to check back until tonight just in case you reply to this comment.
Not familiar with many British TV personalities, but I recognized him right away and believed EVERY accusation against him, because he was so obviously proud of it. He even did this right on camera:
If he could grab a girl’s bum on camera and get away with it, the rest isn’t hard to believe at all.
Ok, sorry not actually leaving just yet. I just wanted to point out as a frequent lurker occasional commenter that the above exchange makes me feel kind of left out. I made a point which no one replied to, then Falconer made a very similar comment and others have replied to that. I’m not thinking this is at all malicious and I’m not accusing anyone of even doing this consciously, I’m just pointing it out because for me at least this is why the comments section sometimes feel cliquey. I’m not at all tech savvy so I won’t be able to log on later and point this out with quotes, this is why I’m doing it now and not later this evening when I check back in. Again apologies if this is a derail, that is not at all my intention, just trying to increase awareness to decrease the confusion around the experiences that other’s have mentioned.
@Falconer
As far as I can tell, the more that gets revealed about Fred Rogers the better he looks. Discovering he was concealing evilness would be absolutely heartbreaking.
I loved the Cosby show as a small child but never watched it as an adult. Sometimes your unconscious mind just knows stuff, maybe?
Dan Conner > Cliff Huxtable
I am so sorry, Sunny, I even read your comment.
I haven’t watched Larry Wilmore before but that was great :). I wonder if John Oliver is going to cover this? I hope so, but then again I tend to hope this about most things.
@Sunny, oops, I was about to say that I think lots of folks were hoping to make further suggestions about the comments policy (myself included) so hopefully it should be up and running soon. Sorry you felt ignored.
@Sunny
I would like to apologize as well, I don’t know how I missed your comment.
“I always thought Philip Banks was a better tv father.”
I recently watched that whole series and while I mostly agree, Phil does get WAY too “man of the house” quite often.
He really was though. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a damn good show.
This scene in particular just ripped my heart out, especially because my father was never in my life, and I’ve found myself making a very similar speech.
@Bina
And yet when it comes to Saville, a lot of MRAs throw a fit and scream “He a good boy, he dindu nuffin!”
“WE HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Larry Wilmore, Keeper of The Covenant.
Sunny and others, you are right. Rape culture made this invisible at the time. I think it’s even part of Cosby’s obtuse denial.