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  And he'll probably sell out on tickets. Dave Chappelle will probably open for him.
context: Well, that's a good joke >
  
  Snoop Dogg called for Cosby’s freedom and it got more than half a million likes including from LeBron James.
  A lot of people will go >
  
  Damn it, I thought Snoop Dogg was supposed to be cool. >
  
  What made ya think that? The millions of dollars he puts into trying to come off as the cool guy? >
  
  I don't know, Reddit seems to like him. I don't really follow celebrities. >
  
  Just remember, "no one of us is as dumb as all of us" is a saying for a reason. >
  
  Entire plot of the Foundation series... Then the show was like, "ok, but what if everyone was dumb on their own?" >
  
  Including the writers. I couldn't make it more than an episode or two. It's just so damned dull. >
  
  I've read all seven of the foundation novels multiple times; I go to sleep to second foundation a lot, and honestly think that had the greatest quadruple twist ending of any book I've read in my entire life.
  Foundation, the show? I literally didn't care if anyone on screen lived or died. They were all equally useless. 
  I will say, the only thing the show did right was making Cleon a clone legacy. That was interesting, even if it had nothing to do with the story of the books.
  Edit: not saying there are other books with quadruple twists I'm comparing second foundation to; saying that the quadruple twist was the best ending of a book I've ever read. Ambiguous phrasing; another reason I'm an Asimov fan, because he didn't fuck up like that haha >
  
  Free drinks at the door if you buy a ticket >
  
  And free backstage pass >
  
  Backdoor pass you mean >
  
  No, he means an ass. >
  
  Time to dust off that Spanish fly routine >
  
  Don't have the jello shots. >
  
  Or the puddin pops >
  
  He acted like he was on death's door at trial, and now he is going to embark on a comedy tour. Fuck this guy. >
  
  Harvey Weinstein scuffles along with a walker trying the same sympathy ploy. >
  
  They learned it from the various Nazis over the last 70 years who have been tried. THey would all put on a huge show of being a helpless old man. >
  
  I would assume every lawyer recommends it to every moderately old person they defend?  Try to look unhealthy/weak to look sympathetic.  
  If a lawyer isn’t recommending this, then he isn’t doing everything possible to defend his client. >
  
  Any lawyer recommending this needs to worry about the surveillance videos of his client jogging and playing tennis. >
  
  I worked with a lawyer who won a case like that.  Woman trying to commit insurance fraud, acting basically paralyzed from the neck down... lawyer plays videos for the judge showing her moving bigass laundry baskets on her balcony.  
  She still thought she could win, somehow (since it proceeded to trial and that video would have been disclosed at discovery).  Apparently, she stuck to the bit even after she lost. >
  
  
  "The controversial comedian said as much during a surprise Dec. 28 radio interview"
  
  'Controversial'?!  He raped a bunch of people. Is raping people now 'controversial'? >
  
  
  controversial comedian
  
  What's the best way to complain about this that hurts the sham of a news rag that printed it? >
  
  I'm so sick of it, too.  Currently a huge record in hockey is about to be broken by Alex Ovechkin, a Russian who whole heartedly embraces Putin.  Somehow, he's labeled "controversial."  
  No.  This is simply using language to say something kinda sorta didn't happen.
  Cosby is a rapist.  Ovechkin supports a mass murdering dictator.  Harvey Weinstein is a rapist.
  Call people what they fucking are. >
  
  r/whatcouldgowrong >
  
  Look...everything he did aside. I saw that last standup he did before he went to jail. He is riddled with dementia and that shit was sad as fuck. >
  
  Anyone who'd still buy a ticket to a Cosby show certainly isn't doing so for his comedy >
  
  I honestly feel like most ticket sales now would be people just heckling and booing him.
  Doubt this tour last more than two shows. >
  
  Why would you go and give him money? If no one goes, that's the biggest slap. >
  
  I mean, this is fucked up, but I kinda want to see it just for the spectacle appeal. Like, it's Cosby. The dude who defined a generation, raped 50+ women, and then decided it would be a good idea to go on a comedy tour directly following jail. That's just something I kind of want to see. Not because I'm a fan of his work or because I support him in any way, but because his whole story is so fucked up and crazy, and I'm just curious to see how this dude plans on winning any crowd or audience over at this point. I'm so curious to see how this dude expects anything other than a shower of boos and visceral hate at any venue he performs at. >
  
  "My fleeting entertainment is more important than morality. I'd finance the thing I say I hate to have some hours of fun" >
  
  That’s gonna be a tough argument. I tried to say the same thing to people who are going to see the Flash movie and support Ezra Miller, who is on camera physically assaulting women, on top of his other insanity.
  The morality vs entertainment argument is a tough slog on Reddit. >
  
  In general you mean. People have given sexual predators like Roman Polanski qnd the director of Jeepers Creepers passes for years before this scandal, and years before reddit. >
  
  Victor Salva is his name and more people need to know what he did and that he is a terrible person which is why I feel it’s important to name him. >
  
  Yeah, he's a scumbag >
  
  Brock Turner is his warm-up... >
  
  Is that convicted rapist Brock Turner who now goes by Allen Turner? >
  
  I hadn’t heard that convicted rapist Brock Turner now goes by convicted rapist Allen Turner. Thanks for the heads up! >
  
  I too, hadn't heard that convicted rapist Brock Turner changed his name to Allen Turner. That sure is good to know. >
  
  Allen is convicted rapist Brock Turner's middle name! >
  
  Interesting! I had an uncle Allen that I was quite fond of. Though he had a drinking problem, he wasn't a rapist, unlike convicted rapist Brock Allen Turner. >
  
  I had an uncle Allen too, but he actually was a rapist. While in prison he confessed to having at least a dozen victims.
  EDIT: Might be Alvin. I only knew him as Al, which is the same name in the news reports about his crimes. >
  
  Can’t wait for the vids of him being heckled off the stage >
  
  people would watch that, meaning they payed for tickets... earning him a profit.
  no, ticket sales should be 0. that's how you show that rapist what he's worth. >
  
  There's always making the venues miserable for agreeing to host this garbage. >
  
  It shouldn’t even get that far. The venues themselves should refuse to host him.
  If I owned a venue I wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole. I’d be worried about protesters, and also other artists not wanting to come to the venue after Cosby was allowed to perform there. Aside from it being the right thing to do, it wouldn’t be worth the risk, IMO. >
  
  What about all the medical excuses he had to get out of prison. Thought this fucker is blind or some shit. >
  
  Not what got him out of prison. His conviction was thrown out because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the previous DA had made a non-prosecution agreement with Cosby regarding the case (might not be describing it properly, I'm not a lawyer) >
  
  That was really stupid of the investigators and DA, but throwing out the case is the correct call if that is in fact the deal they made. >
  
  Serial rapist out on a technicality still sucks to see though
  Edit: Bill Cosby raped 60 women. >
  
  It sucks to see him walk for sure, but I have to correct anyone who calls it a technicality. 
  I and my colleagues (criminal defense lawyers) have done trials that we did win on actual technicalities like the police messed up paperwork or timed something wrong etc. and this is different.
  Our 5th amendment right to silence during a CRIMINAL investigation and trial is a critical part of our rights to be free from the tyranny of government. He willingly gave that up, leading to him necessarily losing a civil case against him,
  in exchange for being free from prosecution. If the government could make promises that hinge on our Constitutional rights and then just violate it at will… then we’re in scary territory. This was the right call on the decision of the court. 
  Probably really bad call on the part of that prosecutor, but it is what it is now. >
  
  Allowing him criminal immunity for a civil case was an absolutely shit decision though. >
  
  My money is on him doing a anti-woke, anti-cancel culture comedy tour. >
  
  I feel like he's done enough anti-woke stuff... >
  
  People sleepin on this joke like they took a free drink from Cosby. >
  
  hshuedid lmao please stop I'm gonna wake up the neighborhood >
  
  No tickets are being sold, you’ll just be selected and forced to watch without your consent. >
  
  And roofied so you couldn’t leave . . . >
  
  I guess that means you won't remember the performance either... >
  
  Tickets wont sell.  
  Bookings will be cancelled.  
  He will complain to whoever will listen about how he has been unfairly cancelled by the Woke. >
  
  He will sell. There are soooooo many people that do-not-care. >
  
  And those that believe him. I've met some older folks who think it was so long ago that it's all just a lie. >
  
  Why the hell does time make something a lie?!? >
  
  Because the thought process goes something like..."if that was true, why didn't they say something then?"
  It's just another channel of victim blaming. >
  
  Because people like them would still say it was a lie “for money”. How many people want to ruin their life and reputation “for money”. 🤬 >
  
  I'm torn.
  On one hand I'd pay just to watch the deluge of heckling.  On the other hand, I wouldn't pay this man a penny.
  Fuck. >
  
  There will probably be bootleg videos on YouTube pretty quick. >
  
  I wouldn't mind seeing some other comedians rip his set to shreds. >
  
  Elon Musk cameo gonna be great >
  
  "Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, confirmed to Variety that the comedian is “looking at spring/summer to start touring.”
  Peter: You're pitching me OJ Simpson?!?
  Agent: Every kid knows his name!
  Peter: Yeah, every kid knows to stay away from him!' >
  
  Is it sad that all he would have to do is claim to be canceled, and make conservative leaning jokes in order to have sold out crowds. >
  
  This just makes him look like a bigger shithole than he already is.  Imagine a mass shooter coming out of jail and starts doing a tour.  No sympathy for his victims. If I was him, I'd never show my face in public again and just live the rest of my life with my millions. >
  
  Wait until you hear about Rittenhouse who apparently got a LOT of job offers (including possibly Gaetz), and then use the pictures of him fake crying in court (which worked) as memes.
  I believe your hypothetical could happen very easily, and them be lauded for it. >
  
  Gaetz probably just wanted some of that sweet, underage-gun-enthusiast nookie.
  Have you seen how old Nestor has gotten? >
  
  Women Say The Darndest Things!
  /s >
  
  Some people here may not remember that show to get this joke, but Pepperidge Farms remembers. >
  
  It was one of the few shows he didn’t name after himself to some degree.
  Cos, Cosby, the Cosby Mysteries, the Cosby Mysteries TV Movie, the Cosby Show, The Bill Cosby Show, Little Bill, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
  He was like a rapey George Foreman, but for television. >
  
  Will the opening line be...  So, did you hear about the rapist who got off?
  Thank you for coming and have good night. >
  
  That’s vile. >
  
  Lol how to get fired for attending a comedy show. >
  
  I'd venture a guess he'll still get plenty of people.
  Never underestimate the out-of-touch.  I'd bet you can find plenty of people who have no idea about Bill Cosby's issues, especially in his demographic (people in their 70s).
  I'd also venture a guess that there plenty of people who don't give a shit and will go anyway because they get to see Bill Cosby before he dies.  And plenty of people who will go for the sheer curiosity. >
  
  I don't think it's possible to not know. His trial and conviction were HUGE news. His shows were removed from platforms/TV. It was a huge news story for a long while.
  I can see people in their 70s not caring or believing that he is innocent despite being convicted but not not knowing. >
  
  People think the earth is flat >
  
  Reading this news I thought about flat earthers as being the hypothetical number of people that would still go to his show.
  I guess the question is are there enough of them to fill out venues in every bigger city, I hope not but I'm scared to find out. >
  
  Anyone who goes to that is an instant red flag. >
  
  Eddie Murphy should prank call him before every show. >
  
  He should call it The Cover Your Drink Tour >
  
  Not a stand-up guy >
  
  After everything, he still thinks he can draw a captive crowd. >
  
  After the crowd takes a sip of Cosby's free drink, they are all captive >
  
  And Cosby’s wife is an asshole.  She gets so outraged - outraged I tell you - at him being charged with anything.  Honestly this is a cliche but her nose couldn’t get farther up in the air.  She’s in that marriage for the money and fame (or infamy as it is now).  Both of them could use a comeuppance. >
  
  Camille knows of how disgusting Bill is and is compliant in his actions too >
  
  He can tour with ye. >
  
  I didn't pay any real attention to the case as I've never watched any Cosby material in my life, but didn't this guy rape dozens of people? Why is he getting out at all? >
  
  He got out on a technicality. There was only one conviction against him because only one of the rapes was within the statute of limitations by the time prosecutors finally decided to do their damn jobs. Since that single conviction used testimony from a civil suit, testimony that was only given because it had been implied that prosecutors would not pursue charges against Cosby in the future, using that testimony was found to have violated Cosby's fifth amendment rights.
  Morally and factually he's a rapist, but legally he got away with it. >
  
  I have no interest in seeing that. He's a scumbag.
  The only reason I think letting him out was the right thing is that we need to play by the rules. And if that means getting him to testify in a civil case by promising not to use that testimony to prosecute him. Then they processed him using that testimony they promised not to use. (Effectively violating his 5th amendment).
  Basically he needs to be behind bars, but they need to do it the right way. >
  
  2023 can’t handle that. >
  
  Dad is great he….. should serve a longer prison sentence >
  
  I was told he was "too blind, old and crippled" to even sit in prison. Surely a comedy tour would be out of the question, right? >
  
  He should get Hannibal Buress to open for all his shows, and let Hannibal just roast him for 30 minutes straight. >
  
  I don't thknk anyone wants to see him perform after this disgusting >
  
  Boo this man! >
  
  If you buy tickets to this, you get what you deserve. >
  
  Right wing comedy is getting a lot more big names recently! Wow! >
  
  Well this is a test about society and serial rapists and pedophiles.
  Do they get a clean slate after being released?
  Even if they could I don't see him being funny for anybody with his record.
  As a comedian YOU are the product. He is no longer a good one. >
  
  Two drink minimum. >
  
  Gross >
  
  To anyone who may know me irl: if I find out that you went to this man's comedy tour, it's on sight.
  Not in the entireity of my life have I ever fels so betrayed. I used to watch him sell me fucking picture pages noise making Mortimer Ichabod marker. I feel like this rerun was just after Fred Penner's place. I remember the first time I listened to his "best of Bill Cosby" album. I remember when I felt terrible knowing that his son Ennis was murdered in 1997. I felt like I knew him at least a little bit.
  But naw, he's just a rapist. Sad. >
  
  Will be easy. He just has to cozy up to the GOP and they will do the media rounds complaining of wokeness and trying to cancel him on his behalf. 
  Actions having consequences seems to not be a thing these days in certain circles. >
  
  He's getting released from prison already? Didn't he rape dozens and dozens of women? >
  
  He's getting out because the prosecutor used evidence that they were not allowed to use. Government incompetency is letting a serial rapist walk free. >
  
  Hey TicketMaster here ya go: $500 "service fee" per ticket. >
  
  I wonder if there will be alot of prison rape jokes. >
  
  I hope OJ opens >
  
  Don’t sleep on this one! >
  
  Good luck with that. >
  
  There are likely people who will want to see him, and there are likely venues/promoters who don't find him so toxic that they will pass up the chance to make money by hosting him.
  The TV Network "TV One" doesn't find him toxic enough to stop showing reruns of The Cosby Show.   People still watch it, so advertisers still advertise during it, and TV One probably makes money from it. >
  
  Future headline: "Cosby comedy tour canceled after lackluster* ticket sakes"
  *Nobody bought any, not even one. >
  
  Lmfao, why? >
  
  Gross >
  
  What a scumbg >
  
  The "I'm Even Less Funny Now" tour. >
  
  You know what Bill Cosby should have instead of a tour next year? A heart attack. >
  
  First stop will be Mar a lago. He just has to kiss the maga kings ass and he will have a welcome audience >
  
  No thanks. I tend not to support rapists. >
  
  Eeeeewwwwe >
  
  LOL. Fuck that guy. >
  
  Wait how long was his sentence for rape? Was he not convicted of rape and imprisoned for life? >
  
  And people will still go >
  
  Bill and his nightmare eye can fuck all the way off. >
  
  The best joke being, “I once had a puddin pop, in my puddin pop!”Because he is a serial rapist. Who once sold us on pudding. >
  
  No.  That’s it. >
  
  I'd already been suspicious that "canceling" wasn't real, now here's my proof. >
  
  Damn, another past his prime comedian going on tour to complain about being "canceled". >
  
  he's out in 2023??? wtf >
  
  If you ever feel bad about your own delusional fantasies, just remember Bill Cosby exists. >
  
  Nope.... hard nope >
  
  Hell no. >
  
  Read the room, Bill. >
  
  Well that's definitely not funny. >
  
  In a follow up call for the article Mr. Cosby's agent clarified that yes, all drinks would in fact, be provided free of charge at the venue. >
  
  I plan on marrying Jennifer Garner but that ain't happening either >
  
  Tour named, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil... Sponsored by rohypnol >
  
  The horrible thing is, if that was his kink, he could have gone looking and found it consensually. Instead he chose to hurt people. I loved his work and can’t bear to see it now. >
  
  That’s a bold move Cotton >
  
  Was kinda hoping he'd die in there ngl >
  
  Two drink minimum? >
  
  I spent hours as a child at my grandparent’s lying on the floor facing the massive stereo cabinet listening to Cosby’s albums. I loved them. I laughed. I quoted them. I hate that those memories are tarnished by this creep. There are obviously others with much more reason to hate him, who he hurt more than I can understand. I hope the tour is a shit show. >
  
  Can you imagine the crowd that would applaud his routine? 
  The scum of the earth. >
  
  My heart is with his victims, who thought at one point in time there would be justice... just to have it ripped away. 
  Fuck this vile garbage dumpster of a person forever. >
  
  Cos was released back in 2021. >
  
  Can we get Will Smith to attend one of his shows? >
  
  Good luck with that one Bill, your pudding is popped. >
  
  On the one hand I’d guess that people are going to heckle the shit out of this guy at every show.  But the thing is you have to pay him your good money to go there and heckle the shit out of him.  And then they’ll probably just throw you out. >
  
  Can't wait to see the Republicans rally around this guy >
  
  Sad thing is this serial rapists will most likely sell out all his bookings as well. >
  
  Wack >
  
  Wasn’t funny back then. Definitely won’t be funny now. Also just gross in general so I bet no one shows up. 
  And if anyone does, find out exactly who they are so you can stay well away from them. >
  
  The "Can I buy you a drink?" Tour. >
  
  Zippity zoop zop no >
  
  This has got to be a joke. >
  
  Dave Chappelle will introduce him to the crowd… >
  
  I think many many more need to be going to prison . >
  
  wonder if he'll try and play the anti-liberal cancel culture thing. that was his thing earlier,  and he loved to bash black guys sagging pants/etc. maybe he could be a fox news regular >
  
  Gotta go find some young puddin to sexually abuse! >
  
  Watch as Republicans embrace him as one of their own. >
  
  Fuck him. >
  
  Dude better watch his drink… >
  
  How is this man still allowed to be in public? >
  
  "Triggering the libs" is such a lucrative industry these days I'm sad to say this will probably work. >
  
  Because he's an old ass joke he thinks he's funny ?  Fucking delusional rapist pos. >
  
  Dude really saw OJ open up a Twitter account and thought yeah I can probably tour 
  And here's the fucked up I don't think he'll sell out but I do think he'll get a lot of seats sold.
  There will black supremacists and black elitist like those who stood outside Brookly Nets arena supporting Kyrie
  And there will be guys like Andrew Tate not Andrew Tate himself...maybe he'll show up too but guys like Andrew Tate who probably feel Cosby ain't bad >
  
  🎶 Its Bill and Bill 🎶 >
  
  Sell rotten tomatoes outside his venue. Profit. >
  
  2023 looking bleak already >
  
  Is this about the rapist Bill Cosby? >
  
  Funniest material that he's given in a while. 
  For me it's the raping. -Norm McDonald. >
  
  I got a better idea. Fooking drop ded. >
  
  Please set it up on ticketmaster...that will totally work Bill! >
  
  This has to be the funniest joke he's ever told.
  I wish this old rapist would give it a rest. >
  
  Why the hell is he getting released? >
  
  oh dear.  Women hopefully don't accept pills or drinks. >
  
  Think he'll ask Hannibal Buress to open? >
  
  I wonder if he's going to use the standard "I've been cancelled!" schtick that all the shitty comedians use.  So hilarious crying cancelled while I'm looking at their thumbnail on Netflix home page, seeing their bitching on all the news outlets, and getting them shoved down my throat 24/7. >
  
  Oh of fucking course he is >
  
  Lmao another example of how “cancel culture” isn’t a real thing 
  Nobody who gets “canceled” actually stays away unless they’re in prison like R Kelly, and if they released him and he went on tour he would sell out venues too >
  
  Who the fucks gonna go? >
  
  I'm laughing already. >
  
  Why ??? 
  I thought we were done with him. >
  
  Dude, just enjoy your undeserved freedom and fade into obscurity. >
  
  I loved the Cosby show and Fat Albert as a kid. Him being a sexual predator tainted those memories like they would with Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross, or Mr. Dress up. It sucks that people suck. >
  
  Well, the show is going to be a snooze
  .. and will probably leave a bad after taste in your mouth >
  
  The arrogance. >
  
  Michael Jackson and Trump fans will love it. >
  
  People will actually pay to see him too, wild. >
  
  The rape America tour. >
  
  Normally in the current political climate, a guy like him would be able to draw a full theater with a far-right audience by doing anti-woke jokes. Unfortunately for Cosby most of that kind of audience is also highly racist so he won't even get those to come to his shows.
  I guess he'll do some self deprecating piece and base it on him getting heckled on purpose or something? What a pathetic man. >
  
  Nonono, they love Black people when those people are pieces of shit like them. Well, they love them for a little while. Long enough for them to be able to say they aren't racist because they like this person. >
  
  Can we trade this for one more Norm McDonald tour instead? >
  
  This is “the joke!” >
  
  The worst part of the whole Cosby thing is not the hypocrisy... >
  
  Raise the Rooff™ Tour >
  
  I hate that I laughed at this. >
  
  I was thinking that people may attend just to heckle him but if they have to pay for a ticket then he still wins. Would venues even want him and if they did I would have thought that he would have to pay up front for the booking and keep the ticket revenue as the venue wouldn't want the risk.
  Whichever way you look at it this is not a good idea. >
  
  this is a great opportunity for comedy clubs. they can sell an upgrade package that gives people a box of tomatoes to throw at him. >
  
  I hope he gets booed off of every stage. Even better, I hope he never sells a single seat. >
  
  Who the fuck wants to hear an old rapist tell jokes unless they themselves are also an old rapist? >
  
  So... all those people complaining about "cancel culture"? >
  
  Is he really being released already?