# Bill Cosby isn't funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265 "2010-09-01T15:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/1 "2010-09-01T15:20:00Z")
And the older my kids get, the less funny he gets all the time. “Get in the shower. Turn on the water. USE SOAP.” “And the kids are running around with wet clothes because they forgot to take them off!” Not funny anymore. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/2 "2010-09-01T15:22:48Z")
Speaking as a proud and happy non-parent, I still think he’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/3 "2010-09-01T15:24:03Z")
Pudding Pops are still funny though, right? Dr Cosby needs to retire from comedy. Actually, he just needs to retire. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/4 "2010-09-01T15:28:12Z")
But he was one of the first big comedians to do that kind of humor, about families and kids and stuff. It was original and refreshing back in the eighties. MINE! MINE! MINE! Dad, I’m Jesus Christ! Dad is great… give us the chocolate cake… ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/5 "2010-09-01T15:29:31Z")
Oh, and his 300 mph sportscar, that’s funny…it’s just that I’m appreciating the depths of his humor in a way I never could before parenthood. When I heard him at 16, he was funny. Beating the kids cuz he wasn’t in trouble? Funny. Wife’s skin peeling off her skull? Funny. Now that I have 7 year old boys. Not so much funny as a sage, battleworn commentary on life experiences. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/6 "2010-09-01T15:57:56Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > MINE! MINE! MINE! > > Dad, I’m Jesus Christ! > > Dad is great… give us the chocolate cake… The Informer: “See? I toooooold you. Ennis put water on the baby’s head and water got into his eyes and he may be blinded for liiiiiiiiife.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/7 "2010-09-01T15:59:43Z")
_Riiiiiiiight…_ ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/8 "2010-09-01T16:04:08Z")
Oh my God, I hit a cow! ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/9 "2010-09-01T16:13:51Z")
Come here. Come here! Come here… here, HERE, HERE!! ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/10 "2010-09-01T16:18:20Z")
I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/11 "2010-09-01T16:20:49Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > Come here. Come here! Come here… here, HERE, HERE!! Gettaway gettaway gettaway. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/12 "2010-09-01T16:20:59Z")
“Come over and see the poo-poo!” “My wife grabs a yard stick… holds it like a samurai warrior… and announces that the beatings will now begin… by saying, “I HAVE HAD… ENOUGH OF… THIS!” Now these three brain-damaged people have the nerve to looked surprised!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/13 "2010-09-01T16:23:33Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > “Come over and see the poo-poo!” I bet Ugandans find this _hilarious_. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/14 "2010-09-01T16:23:46Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > > [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > > > Come here. Come here! Come here… here, HERE, HERE!! > > Gettaway gettaway gettaway. JeffreyJeffreyJeffreyJeffreyJeffreycomehereJeffreysitdownJeffreyJeffreyJeffreyJeffrey… But what if you’re an asshole? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/15 "2010-09-01T16:27:26Z")
“But Dad MADE us eat cake for breakfast!” ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/16 "2010-09-01T16:33:43Z")
Chocolate cake for breakfast! Best idea ever. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/17 "2010-09-01T16:36:50Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@control-z](#): > > > > “Come over and see the poo-poo!” > > I bet Ugandans find this _hilarious_. Heh. I watched Tosh.0 last week. 🙂 I think he’s not that funny now, but he really was funny in the past. His bit about Noah is great and a lot of his family stuff was great when it was new. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/18 "2010-09-01T16:51:04Z")
My mother said to me: “When your father gets home, he’s going to shoot you in the face with a bazooka! And I’m not going to stop him this time, either! You know, he’s always wanted to kill you! The day you were born, he said, ‘Kill it!’ _I_ stopped him from killing you for _eleven years_… [he starts sobbing] …and this is the thanks I get for saving your life!” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/19 "2010-09-01T16:52:49Z")
The man came in here, dad! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/20 "2010-09-01T16:53:46Z")
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