In the late 1980s, Lisa Bonet was simultaneously the coolest of The Cosby Show cast and the black sheep of the fictional family. The then-20-year-old actress endured a public fallout with Bill Cosby thanks to a "racy" movie called Angel Heart, marriage to fellow black hippie Lenny Kravitz and pregnancy with…
Want to watch The Cosby Show over holiday break without feeling like you're covered in maggots? Planning on enjoying the sitcom's sibling shenanigans on the one channel—Hi Centric—that hasn't ended their syndication of the 1980s blockbuster series? There's a solution!
TV Land won't be airing any more episodes of The Cosby Show following a recent resurgence in discussing the numerous rape allegations against Bill Cosby. Netflix and NBC have already dropped or stalled their business with him, so we all knew this was coming. It was only a matter of time.
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Barbara Bowman, one of the women who has accused Bill Cosby of rape asked a great question; Why did it take Hannibal Buress' joke about Cosby's respectability politics clashing with his sexual assault allegations to make her story "go viral"?
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As black women try to shake off tired tropes like the angry black woman, which the New York Times raised from its shallow grave yesterday, let's focus on The Cosby Show's career-driven matriarch that kicked ass at home and at work, Clair Huxtable. The show and the icon that actress Phylicia Rashad brought to life has…
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Vanity Fair got real-estate expert Barbara Corcoran — co-founder of the Corcoran Group, and the woman Jessica used to call "The Corcodevil" — to weigh in on the most pressing question that confronts any viewer of a New York-set sitcom: how the fuck do those people live there? Unlike on Friends (which is unfortunately…
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What's your fave Thanksgiving TV episode? Flavorpill has a list, which includes this gem from The Cosby Show. Poor Cliff. The Lucky Stop market probably had bulletproof glass. "Just put some whipped cream on it" is always a good rule to live by.
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"My mom is going to kill me." A phrase used so often it has lost its urgency and true meaning.
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Have you ever watched The Cosby Show and thought to yourself, "Man, someone should really catalog this family's wide array of sweaters"? Enter The Cosby Sweater Project, a website that does exactly that.
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Confession: I love Clean House. As a recovering pack rat, seeing people part with their clutter — and end up enjoying it — is an oddly soothing type of entertainment.
WTF moment in '80s TV.
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Oprah had a "retro party" on her show yesterday, and as part of that, she recreated the set of The Cosby Show and reunited the kids. (Except for Lisa Bonet, who was unable to attend because she just had a baby.) They all talked about how they weren't aware until they were older what an impact the show had on society…
