re: #78 Blind Frog Belly White

I think his moralistic lecturing started about 30 years later, in the 00’s.

But to me, his comedy went downhill as he lost touch with his childhood, or maybe he ran out of things to say? Like a band that puts out brilliant work for a while but then runs out of good songs.

I felt like he had a good run in standup in the 1960s, then kind of lost his way artistically till The Cosby Show, where he found some footing again as part of a team, then lost his way again after that.

I don’t know that I’d even tie his artistic ups and downs to his serial rapist activities. He’s kind of an object lesson that someone can be brilliantly funny and do good works while being a monster in another aspect of his life. Few monsters are simply monsters entirely.

The Cosby Show was moralizing. Wasn’t he seen as everyone’s father figure? He preached on that show and acted like how a proper African American family should act.

You don’t have to tie anything together. He did that with his actions. The comedian is the rapist.