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Related: About this forumHere's a video of Bill Cosby joking about using Spanish Fly. It's from 1969.
I don't see what's so fucking funny about this and I don't get what the audience is laughing at, unless it's nervous laughter.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)Yes, in ways that will amaze us all....
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)...now, I know what "Spanish Fly" means - vague on the term and never "got" the meaning.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)zebonaut
(3,688 posts)Maybe he thought it was harmless at the time
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)guilty till proven innocent. very sad
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)First, "innocent until proven guilty," a/k/a the presumption of innocence, refers to a person's legal standing before a court of law. It was never intended to foreclose social or even professional opprobrium.
Second, it isn't like it's an isolated case or two. There have been 13 women who have made similar accusations, and they all seem to show a similar M.O. I have seen no evidence to suggest these women are part of any conspiracy against Cosby, therefore I tend to think that where there is smoke, there is fire.
Nitram
(22,803 posts)...when I heard this schtick in 1969 it sounded exactly like the kind of stuff we used to talk about when we were 13. Yes, it sounds a bit ominous now that we've heard about what Cosby has been up to, but the bit, in and off itself, was an innocently funny take on the first discussions of sexual topics among adolescents. Are we going to start digging up Robin Williams riffs to expose what a pervert he really was?
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)Quixote1818
(28,943 posts)I duped this because the title was changed from the original video and didn't see it was already posted. Kicking it back to the top for people who missed it earlier.