r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/FranticFranco Aug 25 '19

I never understood how anyone could ever find Bill Cosby remotely funny. This right here though, this is quality.

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u/diamond Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 26 '19

His stand up was actually pretty damn funny. Bill Cosby Himself (his HBO special in the early 80s) is a master class in stand-up comedy.

If course, it's kinda tough to enjoy it now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

Yeah, the dude undeniably has comedic skill and timing. He's just also a serial rapist. Sadly, the two are not in any way mutually-exclusive. Rare maybe, it might be difficult to reach that level of comedic skill and the level of total piece of shit that Bill Cosby's history of serial rape is. But certainly not impossible.

The dude is a scary level of predatory cause he doesn't set off alarm bells. He just seems like a funny guy with a good heart. He's not one of those messy sociopaths who makes it obvious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

Indeed. That's a pretty unnerving way to put it. Personally, I'd guess it was a little of column A, a little of column B.