Walliams has been openly a creep for a long time, whether it was confirmed criminal or not. I don’t think it’s the same. There’s just a line of behaviour somewhere where buying books for your kid from a creep crosses from acceptable to unacceptable.
People had been accusing Cosby as early as the 80s about assaults that happened as early as the 60s. Similar to how UK comedians joked openly about Walliams being a creep long before the allegations ever became public, the allegations against Cosby became public after the comedian Hannibal Buress joked about it on stage. It’s not a 1 to 1 comparison by any means, but there are a lot of parallels in how the situations are playing out.
I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.
I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.
Bill Cosby.
Definitely Cosby. Once a titan, now unspoken.
This year, he was ordered to pay 19mil in damages, liable for another drugging and SA case.
Seems the UK is going through their own Cosby moment right now with the David Walliams allegations
Walliams has been openly a creep for a long time, whether it was confirmed criminal or not. I don’t think it’s the same. There’s just a line of behaviour somewhere where buying books for your kid from a creep crosses from acceptable to unacceptable.
People had been accusing Cosby as early as the 80s about assaults that happened as early as the 60s. Similar to how UK comedians joked openly about Walliams being a creep long before the allegations ever became public, the allegations against Cosby became public after the comedian Hannibal Buress joked about it on stage. It’s not a 1 to 1 comparison by any means, but there are a lot of parallels in how the situations are playing out.
We don’t talk about Cosby
I was mildly uncomfortable with black people as a young child, but my love for comedy made me accept Bill Cosby and many others.
I will not let his shitty actions keep those lessons from me. It has been a good example for me of burning the speaker for transgressions, not the completely unrelated message.