Dismayed at your saggy pants and even saggier morals, deposed TV dad Bill Cosby wants to restore a sense of old-fashioned family values to comedy, which are those things we had before they finally invented smartphones. He already has his first standup special in 30 years coming to Comedy Central, and now he tells Yahoo TV he’d like to continue that trajectory by developing another family sitcom and even rebooting Fat Albert. He’s partnered with Cosby Show producer Tom Werner on the former, developing a comedy he says would satisfy the viewers’ desires for “a married couple that acts like they love each other, warts and all, children who respect the parenting, and the comedy of people who make mistakes… warmth and forgiveness” as an answer to today’s sitcoms, which are primarily about people having sex with computers and arson.
However, it wouldn’t be Cosby Show ...
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