Family life has been the raw material of much of Cosby’s humor from the beginning of his career, and it has always been a humor of love. Perhaps his doctorate in education made him more reflective about what he was doing, more conscious of the moral and spiritual issues he was tackling, but he has always been, in his own way, a vehicle of grace.
this section aged like milk—this is not any fault of the author’s, but the power and imagery of The Cosby Show, and all the good the show produced in America, made evident in the author’s framing as an emblem of grace, was the most tragic casualty of Bill Cosby’s persistent, insistent sins.
