The better question is, can Chuck Johnson prove he DIDN'T shit on the floor? Multiple times?
The first picture is exactly how I look after I have had a bout of food poisoning. Except instead of the couch it's usually the cool tile of the bathroom floor.
Oh, sure, it's just me hangin' out in a barren, dingy room with a rusty radiator, ya know, jeans scrunched down so's I can barely move my legs and my bare ass and bits on a slippery, possibly questionable leather armchair that's the only place to sit 'cept the floor (splinters!) or what looks like a janky bathtub off…
The truth of the pictures: if you're wearing jeans without underwear, sometimes, they really rub your vagina wrong. She isn't trying to be sexy, she is in pain.
"What seems more likely [to an extremely lefty feminist]…"
No seriously. To people Tiny Fey's age (my age), Bill Cosby was THE black comedian of the 70's when we were little kids. The Fat Albert Show was everything. If you had to pick a Black comedian from the 70's for Tracy to have a problem with, it's him. It can…
I actually found out about Cosby for the first time from that Gawker article! It was one of the main reasons I started reading Gawker Media regularly again. I was like, "What else don't I know?"
That couldn't possible have been any more accidental than the line about "you can't have a Lemon party without old Dick!" was.
In addition to being a cranky old man who wants the black kids to pull their pants up, Cosby's always been, shall we say, eccentric. When I worked at a movie studio my boss would have meetings with him, and he would always refer to himself in the third person when talking about the story. "See, when Cosby does this,…
Reminds me of a Simpsons joke where Homer right before he goes into space gets a call from President Clinton and asks him if he knows where he can get some 'tang. This was before Lewinsky.
Yes, that's exactly what makes what Buress did so powerful and why it quickly became so viral. They say the best comedy has a grain of truth that we are painfully uncomfortable with. The best jokes are those that tap into the secret things we think but don't want to say. Buress NAILED that.
Does anyone else remember when Tracy Morgan was on SNL he did a segment called "Tracy Morgan's Black History"? I remember an episode where he called out The Cosby Show for their colorist casting (something I never noticed until he pointed it out, but yeah, most of the Huxtable kids have light skin). When I saw that…
And that's the genius of the joke, it plays both ways equally well. Like a picture of a vase that turns into two heads who are actually rapists.
Yup. I knew at the time, as a viewer. I has to explain why I almost passed out laughing to my wife.
So did I. I'm a bit older than some, and I remember everything about the original allegations and that whole story. I remember this joke and thinking "OH SHIT."
I remember a woman accusing Cosby like ten years ago, when I was in college. It was a giant, giant deal amongst my dorky little clique who inhale media news, but then it kind of disappeared from mainstream conversation. I've never forgotten, though.
I remember that joke the first time I heard it and assumed it was directly referencing Cosby's rape allegations. The allegations have been following him around for years and years before this most recent round.
This is pretty important, I think. It took me years to realize it, but when your partner asks you to do something, they're usually not saying "I want this thing to get done", so much as they're saying "I want you to help me do this thing". Even if they can get it done quicker and easier on their own, or if it's…