When I was in middle school, my older brother would tape "Late Night with David Letterman" and we would watch it the next day. It was the era of Pee Wee Herman, Emo Phillips, and Jay Leno back when he was funny, so it was pretty good. My parents hated anything that involved irony because it went over their heads and because of their authoritarian personalities.
And what comedian did my father like? That's right - serial rapist Bill Cosby. Then again, who wouldn't like a mediocre comic who started out with a watered-down Dick Gregory act and then got eclipsed by his onetime imitator Richard Pryor, once Pryor stopped whitewashing his comedy for a Middle American audience and found his authentic voice after going underground in Oakland and Berkeley?
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