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    Quote Originally Posted by Trey Strain View Post
    Comics are the only industry I know of where customers brag about being old and think that makes them desirable.
    Are you referring to the comic book industry? If so, I'm not sure what you're point is.
    If you're referring to comedians, then I'm even less sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChadH View Post
    Are you referring to the comic book industry? If so, I'm not sure what you're point is.
    If you're referring to comedians, then I'm even less sure.
    I think Trey was talking about comic book fans. I'm sure he's referring to the fact that many folks refer to themselves as long term fans when they are complaining about some "new" thing the big 2 are doing to try to get new readers.

    He's not 100% percent wrong. The mainstream comic industry can't survive ( at least not in it's current form) by catering only to a rapidly aging and rapidly shrinking audience of middle aged people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joker View Post
    Being a scumbag doesn't mean he wasn't funny. He was a very skilled comedian. His awfulness as a human doesn't change or lessen that fact.
    Back in the day my mom would buy comedy albums of the TV stars like Flip Wilson and Bill Cosby. She innocently bought a Redd Foxx album. That one didn't stay in the house long.
    (Those of you that have heard his stand up act know what I mean)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Osiris-Rex View Post
    Back in the day my mom would buy comedy albums of the TV stars like Flip Wilson and Bill Cosby. She innocently bought a Redd Foxx album. That one didn't stay in the house long.
    (Those of you that have heard his stand up act know what I mean)
    Yep. My friend had one of Redd's albums back in the '70s and kind of blew my pre-teen mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective View Post
    Yep. My friend had one of Redd's albums back in the '70s and kind of blew my pre-teen mind.
    I was the same way with Richard Pryor albums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ed2962 View Post
    Black comedians don't have the market cornered on using profanity in their acts.
    Yeah.

    I think Ricky Gervais, Mike Carling, Greg Davies, Jack Whitehall, Jimmy Carr etc would agree with you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    I was the same way with Richard Pryor albums.
    Pryor was the king of stand-up albums, IMO.
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    Just one of those complexities of humans. While Cosby is a scumbag rapist, he also was one of the most generous and charitable people in comedy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective View Post
    Pryor was the king of stand-up albums, IMO.
    Trying to remember, did Cheech and Chong predate Pryor? They were pretty racy for their day; both in language and content.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective View Post
    Pryor was the king of stand-up albums, IMO.
    Pryor's "Mudbone" routine was an absolute riot. Yeah, he was the boss back in the day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
    Trying to remember, did Cheech and Chong predate Pryor? They were pretty racy for their day; both in language and content.
    I remember listening to them for the first time on my school bus not that long after Up in Smoke came out (I would have been in 7th grade then). Yeah, it was pretty daring, but it didn't have a tenth of the substance of a Pryor album, IMO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    Just one of those complexities of humans. While Cosby is a scumbag rapist, he also was one of the most generous and charitable people in comedy.
    One of the funniest, too. In fact, I would rank his albums as almost as great as Pryor's, even though they seemed so innocuous in comparison. IIRC, I think I first saw him on The Flip Wilson Show circa 1970 (I believe reruns of I Spy came out a little later).

    Doesn't excuse his other stuff, of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective View Post
    One of the funniest, too. In fact, I would rank his albums as almost as great as Pryor's, even though they seemed so innocuous in comparison. IIRC, I think I first saw him on The Flip Wilson Show circa 1970 (I believe reruns of I Spy came out a little later).

    Doesn't excuse his other stuff, of course.

    No, it doesn't. He was a favorite of mine in my childhood, I loved his albums, my brother and I listened to them over and over. Particularly "Wonderfulness" and "To My Brother Russell, Whom I Slept With".
    I Spy was also a favorite show.
    I doubt I could listen to him and laugh now.

    But that's the Art vs Artist thing, "Chinatown" is still a great film, even though Polanski is a rapist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
    But that's the Art vs Artist thing, "Chinatown" is still a great film, even though Polanski is a rapist.
    Same with me when it comes to House of Cards. I still enjoy that show, even though Kevin Spacey is a predator scumbag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Darknight Detective View Post
    One of the funniest, too. In fact, I would rank his albums as almost as great as Pryor's, even though they seemed so innocuous in comparison. IIRC, I think I first saw him on The Flip Wilson Show circa 1970 (I believe reruns of I Spy came out a little later).

    Doesn't excuse his other stuff, of course.
    No, I Spy came out in 1965, The Flip Wilson Show wasn't until 1970. I Spy was rather daring for its time, casting a black actor as a lead in a serious drama and having him as the equal of the white lead,
    not just as a sidekick, chauffeur, butler or otherwise subservient. Before black men were mostly just supporting characters, usually servants.

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