# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/81 "2010-09-05T18:36:19Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > > > Then don’t go see Gallagher live. > > 😕😕 Gallagher.:dubious: > **[Gallagher contract included family-oriented clause](https://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboroargus/2010/09/gallagher_contract_included_fa.html)** > > County will not seek recourse after profanity-laced free show at Washington County Fair > [@](#): > > A contract between the Washington County Fair Complex and the promoter for comedian Gallagher includes a family-friendliness clause. But Washington County officials say they are unlikely to pursue legal action against the comedian for a show that few would say was family friendly. > > Gallagher was paid $5,000 for his free profanity-laced show on opening night at the Washington County Fair. > **[Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing, Watermelon-Smashing Maniac](https://www.thestranger.com/theater/2010/07/01/4357855/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-right-wing-watermelon-smashing-maniac)** > > Gallagher: Right-Wing, Religious, Melon-Smashing Maniac > [@](#): > > “You have your hat backward,” Gallagher sneers at a twentysomething man in the front row. “Are you a homosexual? Because it seems you have a problem figuring out the front from the back.” > [@](#): > > You see, Gallagher is—how best to put this?—a paranoid, delusional, right-wing religious maniac. I HAD NO IDEA. > > “Hey, President Obama,” he spits out the name like a mouthful of burning hair. “You ain’t black. I don’t care what you say—you’re a latte. You’re half whole-milk. It could be goat milk—you could be a terrorist!” I am too busy losing my mind to catch the next joke, which is about Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer. Aaaaand we’re off. > [@](#): > > At last, after two hours of his tedious, hacky, right-wing manifesto, Gallagher gets to the part his (willing) hostages have been waiting for. It’s time to smash some shit. There are the watermelons, there is some cottage cheese (“It’s got the curds that blow up, just like on the news!”), there is sauerkraut and syrup and honey. Then Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable—water chestnuts, maybe—and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all. Wet chunks of China people and queers fly everywhere. The hateful, bitter old man laughs. Wa. Hoo. Extra “hoo”. Bill Cosby is funny. Gallagher—no. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/82 "2010-09-05T21:15:04Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > 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.” I loved Cosby’s old stuff, but with his family comedy material I wince when he mentions Ennis’ name since he is now dead. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/83 "2010-09-05T22:55:18Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > The bit about watching a horror movie from beneath his theatre seat, then getting a cardboard cutout of the Frankenstein monster Well, stole it, really. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/84 "2010-09-05T23:45:47Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > [@BMalion](#): > > > > The bit about watching a horror movie from beneath his theatre seat, then getting a cardboard cutout of the Frankenstein monster > > Well, stole it, really. Well played, Bryan Ekers! . ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/85 "2010-09-07T05:37:28Z")
> [@Jimson\_Jim](#): > > “Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga… what is your name, boy? And don’t lie to me, because you live here, and I’ll find out who you are.” > > I’m the oldest of five and my parents would on occasion call us by the wrong name. After this record came out in the 80’s my parents would call us rutabaga when we were in trouble and they were flustered. My mom’s gotten so angry with me before she exhausted the human names in the house and called me the cat’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/86 "2010-09-07T05:42:44Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > > > It seems the majority opinion in this thread is that Bill Cosby is funny. > > Or that he _was_ funny. It seems to me that most of the “Cosby Quotes” in this thread are from the 60’s. Am I reading too much into this, since I think he was funny for only a fraction of his long career? (This is a genuine question.) I think so. The last special of his I saw was Bill Cosby: Himself, and I recently found [Bill Cosby: 49](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIQ0pl4N90) on Youtube, and I found both hilarious. He’s just not doing albums anymore to quote from. I caught him live 8-10 years ago or so, and he was as funny as ever. Different people find different things to be funny is all. I love Bill Cosby and hate Martin Lawrence. I’m sure others are the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/87 "2010-09-07T07:20:23Z")
_“‘Junior Barnes? You gunky… Oh… Junior Barnes.’ I couldn’t find him. And it was 7.30. I had to get home before the monsters come out. And I took that snowball home. And I put it in the freezer. And I waited.”_ I agree that he’s not funny anymore. But he used to be really funny. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/88 "2010-09-07T08:02:33Z")
…he was six foot nine and weighed fifty pounds… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/89 "2010-09-07T18:10:27Z")
Haven’t gone to see too many comics lately. But I used to. Saw Cosby before the tv show came out. Never laughed so hard before or since. He was a brilliant comic. ---
**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 7, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265/90 "2010-09-07T18:14:20Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I think so. The last special of his I saw was Bill Cosby: Himself, and I recently found [Bill Cosby: 49](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcIQ0pl4N90) on Youtube, and I found both hilarious. He’s just not doing albums anymore to quote from. I caught him live 8-10 years ago or so, and he was as funny as ever. That was GREAT! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cosby-isnt-funny/552265.md?page=4)