(via Variety)

After exploiting a legal loophole to get his sexual assault charge overturned last year (there are other cases that have been recently filed against Cosby), Bill Cosby has announced that he is eyeing a return to the stage in 2023 to do stand-up. One should never forget that the overturning of the decision only came as damning testimony given by Cosby was recognized as inadmissible due to a prior agreement with a different prosecution team.

Cosby has been out of jail for over a year now and apparently continues to live in an alternate reality where he maintains some semblance of innocence and that there is a fan base where he will, he believes, “…be able to perform and be the Bill Cosby that my audience knows me to be.” In a potential scenario where a venue takes on a possibly short-sighted cash grab that would be booking Cosby for some dates, don’t be surprised if he doesn’t bring up the topics of rape or drugging women or talk about any of the damage he has done in betraying his image as America’s Dad (see We Need to Talk About Cosby).

2008 saw O.J. Simpson release a prank show that one asked for, Juiced. In said show, there are plenty of “bits” that “poke fun” at the murder he was accused of (that everyone pretty much agrees he is guilty of thanks to a civil trial). The show remains tasteless and a creation of yet another mind living in some sort of reality free of accountability and detractors and remains as a haunting reminder of the aftermath of how America handled the entirety of the O.J. Simpson Trial saga.

Some accountability ought to be put into action in place of past failures and not give Cosby an iota of the life he had and repeat this cycle of tragedy once more. Maybe that would look like no one going to see those shows and, perhaps, picketing any place that risks booking him.