At 76, Bill Cosby is making a bit of a comeback as a performer. Last Saturday, Comedy Central aired his first stand-up special in 30 years, and he’s touring again. This weekend, TV Land will re-air the new special—plus a marathon of Cosby’s 10 favorite episodes of The Cosby Show.
It’s a good time to revisit the sitcom, if you haven’t rewatched it lately. If you were around when it aired, you surely watched it at the time: The series was pretty much an instant success, greeted with rave reviews and landing in the top five of the Nielsen ratings in every season but its last.
But it’s also always had detractors, some of whom regard the show as “unrealistic” in its depiction of an upper-middle-class black family. Yet while the Huxtables may never have “struggled” like the Evans family on Good Times or Fred G. Sanford and his son Lamont, Cliff and Claire never shied away from reminding their children of the value of a dollar when appropriate. “Your mother and I are rich,” Cliff tells Vanessa in a Season 3 episode after she complains about the “burden” of coming from privilege. “You have nothing.”
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