Spoilers herein.
You are what you laugh at. And what you choose to think funny invents you. When enough people find a humorist and laugh, a society is changed.
Consider: here is a man whose jokes are not blue (sex jokes are always class jokes). Here is a black comedian whose routine is not based on some corporately-defined cultural difference (`white folks are prim, we is cool').
Think about it. Cosby saved the situation comedy and incidentally NBC. He may have saved the US from a real race war by his simple humanity -- by employing avuncular timing and describing simple family characteristics.
How many recorded concerts can you watch that are both historically important and damned funny?
You are what you laugh at. And what you choose to think funny invents you. When enough people find a humorist and laugh, a society is changed.
Consider: here is a man whose jokes are not blue (sex jokes are always class jokes). Here is a black comedian whose routine is not based on some corporately-defined cultural difference (`white folks are prim, we is cool').
Think about it. Cosby saved the situation comedy and incidentally NBC. He may have saved the US from a real race war by his simple humanity -- by employing avuncular timing and describing simple family characteristics.
How many recorded concerts can you watch that are both historically important and damned funny?