They're all disgraced.
--Michael D. Clarke
Masterson is less than 0.01% as famous as OJ or Cosby were. Most people don't know who he is, let alone that he had had a downfall
shareCosby. He was idolized and considered the perfect TV dad.
Definitely not Masterson. Most people had no clue who he was until his accusations. And most still don’t care.
When Cosby was accused, people thought, “Holy shit!” When Masterson was accused, people thought, “Who?” or “Yawn.”
OJ or Cosby?
--Michael D. Clarke
Between those two, still Cosby, especially since he was convicted.
shareI was a small child back then, so I can't really remember. But from what I hear, OJ Simpson was actually very famous and popular pre-1994 murders. So, when he was charged, it was a BIG shock especially with the Bronco chase.
Similar to Cosby in 2015 when all the allegations came out. But it seems MANY people in Hollywood already knew of Cosby's shady dealings from WAY back even well into the 80s. It's just back then, women were not taken seriously with their allegations.
--Michael D. Clarke
It's a tough call. Both had golden reputations - Cosby as America's Dad, OJ as a very likable ex-athlete. OJ had more recent fame. He went from college football stand-out to NFL star, to movies, commercial endorsements and Monday Night Football. Cosby was an absolute pioneer as a Black stand up comic and TV Star, with hitvshow after hit show. But Cosby was kind of fading from the limelight when his misdeeds came to light.
The OJ murders got total media saturation. CourtTV was pretty much founded to cover his trial. I kept track and he was on the cover of supermarket tabloids every week for a solid year. It was a bloody double murder, right in the Entertainment capital of the world.
Cosby coverage seem less dramatic. It was "only rapes" and in Philadelphia. There was no show speed car chase, lol.
The OJ case definitely played out like a real-life trashy Shakespeare tragedy.
You got an interracial couple. A handsome, charismatic athlete/actor beloved by all. His blonde, beautiful ex-wife wearing that sexy black dress on night of murders. And then her allleged young hunky waiter "probably boyfriend" coming over late at night to "return some glasses" (yeah right!). And then a violent, bloody encounter.
All the elements of a perfect trashy Hollywood movie coming to real-life.
--Michael D. Clarke
As a non American, I can say for sure Cosby! Cosby was even big in Europe, the Cosby Show was even here well known and he was considered a nice dad. This got fostered with his movies. And even if you are not into family shows, his I Spy show was also well known here, even when it was more seen as the Robert Culp show. So him being a rapist is a really big news even here.
OJ instead was for us just Nordberg from the Naked Gun movies. Next I can remember was him in his white Bronco.
Cosby and Simpson were superstars. Masterson is a has-been who had a supporting part on a sitcom a couple of decades ago. That's not very far to fall. Not to mention (although I'm mentioning it), of the three, only Simpson killed people.
shareI think Cosby had the biggest fall of all. OJ's fame was fading, down to making tv movies. Cosby still was very active and popular, many deals in the works. I think he was even going to make another TV dad series.
The rape trial not only canx every single project it made him a prisoner in his own house. All Cosby has done since the beginning of his trial is stay in his house, go to court, go to jail, then back to house. No more reruns of his shows on tv. No more interviews. No more projects. No more celebrity. No more dad worship. NOTHING. Just stay in the house until the time comes.
Cosby and OJ we about in the same place, career wise. Cosby wasn't getting a lot of work either.
shareJust stay in the house until the time comes.
OJ. Most people here are probably too young to remember his Hall of Fame football career. He was living off of that fame when he got into movies and sports broadcasting. He would still be living off of that today if it were not for the murders. He comes across as very likable if you look at a clip from NBC Sports which covered the AFC during the 1980's and early 1990's. Cosby was a close but firm second to OJ.
shareI'm a Brit, so speaking from the perspective of their respective profiles in the UK, Cosby by a mile.
shareCosby and OJ are based ASF Cosby was molesting and drugging bitches since before my parents were born and OJ tamed his unfaithful wife and her bump boyfriend with his own hands to assert dominance, both of them end up free and Cosby just got accused when he is not even capable to remember how to pee without wet his pants, all the shit MOFO did just catch him when doesn't matter anymore because he can't even understand who the fuck he is or where he is, you can't be more based than that
This dude end up receiving 30 years based only on some random thots accusations dude is weak ASF
O.J made for the Greatest Late Night TV back in 1994 EVER with Leno spoofing the OJ Trial, then every day I listened to Howard Stern on 105.7 The POINT and his staff lampooned it.. It was a phenomenon at the time because the Prosecution did the unthinkable by making OJ try on the leather glove found at the scene to be his and did so while wearing a latex glove, which caused it to not fit and the famous saying came to life in "If the Glove Don't Fit, You Must Acquit" from the Late Johnny Cochran who pulled off the impossible by getting a murderer off Scott free through a bumbling technicality on the part of the dumb Prosecution..
share"...making OJ try on the leather glove found at the scene to be his and did so while wearing a latex glove which caused it to not fit..."
Thank you.
I always thought or felt that I was the only one who noticed he tried it on with a latex glove and brought it up where no one else ever did.
Even though it is a very thin layer I can't help but feel it was a factor in the leather glove not fitting on.
I dunno why they had him try it on with the latex.
It's not like his skin alone is that toxic that will make it dissolve since it is leather.
It may not have fit anyway but it is impossible to know that since he tried to fit it on wearing another glove.
That Prosecution fucked up so bad with this, that they probably couldn't sleep for a year after just because of it.. They had all bases covered and then they did this..
shareI think there were too many stupid people on the jury regardless. The glove incident simply cemented their belief that 'that DNA shit ain't real...'
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