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  • #31
    Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
    I dunno man. I think Jay Leno's funny, so maybe we just have differing opinions on comedy.

    As far as I'm aware, the stuff he's said re: being black people's dad is all basically truisms along the lines of buy books instead of shoes, don't have a kid when you're 15, stay in school, etc. I don't know how you can think that's objectionable.
    the message in and of itself isn't objectionable, but the smugness and arrogance that it's delivered with is pretty ****ty.
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    • #32
      also, it's completely unsurprising that you find jay leno, patron saint of unfunny people, funny.
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      • #33
        Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
        I dunno man. I think Jay Leno's funny
        Oh good lord. Fan of Carrot Top as well, I take it?
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        • #34
          Leno has never been funny. He has nice tastes in old cars but his humor has always been of the lowest common denominator, let's take the easy way out, but never offend anyone. Also he was a dick in how he handled retiring from the Tonight show.
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          • #35
            I don't think he's funny, but alot of people do. Those people are horrible, just like HC.
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            • #36
              Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
              Like OJ.
              Well unlike the Blair/Bush governments, I've always been in favour of the presumption of innocence, despite people being awkwardly Muslim, or dark-skinned, or having travelled to the 'wrong' countries.

              bill cosby was never that funny in the first place.
              I agree with self biased- I never understood why anyone found the appallingly saccharine 'Cosby Show' remotely funny.
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              • #37
                Never was a fan of the show but a lot of his stand up routines were quite funny. A lot of the humor was reliant on his delivery.
                But it was a specific style that if you didn't like it I doubt you would have found the material funny.
                It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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                • #38
                  i think bill cosby's style is quite american and doesn't really translate well. i never found him funny and i can't remember anyone i know in england finding him so.
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                  • #39
                    I dunno... if it was me - I wouldn't remain so silent.

                    He's a scum bag - just took a while to ripen. Not that I;m happy about it... really just so disillusioned... is anyone good anymore???

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                    • #40
                      I'm still good.
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Boris Godunov View Post
                        Oh good lord. Fan of Carrot Top as well, I take it?
                        No, he sucks.
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                        • #42
                          Does anybody admit that they're his fans?
                          It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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                          • #43
                            I guess he was ok... I watched the cosby show a few times. was ok at first. like most shows when you start to bring in little kids (when the cast is getting old), it's a sign

                            remember the brady bunch and that little blond headed kid - oliver cousin I think.

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                            • #44
                              Cosby actually did other things besides to Cosby Show, which was based on some of his comedy, but not as funny.
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                              • #45
                                Along with Alan Sherman, Bob Newhart, and the musical comedy of Tom Lehrer, Bill Cosby was one of the first comedians I really liked. "Wonderfulness" (1966) was the first comedy album I ever bought. I was 13. His early stand-up stuff was quite good. Creatively, that may have been his peak -- mid to late 1960s.

                                I was never a fan of the Cosby Show, Fat Albert cartoons, etc.

                                (n.b. I see that album is now commanding $150-250 on eBay right now. Maybe time to dig it out and cash in...)
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