You know, there is A LOT that is being left out of this story, & it's being retold in a COMPLETELY different time. When the Denise character went off to Hillman, he could have treated her the way that Sondra was treated for the first two years, as someone who just dropped in for the occasional holiday or weekend trip home. But, he gave her a WHOLE sitcom of her own that followed his own timeslot, the second most powerful coattails on TV at the time. And, he is right that America would have LOST THEIR MINDS about Denise Huxtable being pregnant out of wedlock. Today, it happens ALL THE TIME & everyone is cool with it, but back then, there was still shame associated with it, & IF it happened to upper class girls, they either had an abortion or had it & gave it away. Almost NONE of them kept the baby & raised it on their own. That was the zeitgeist of the mid 80s. But, after all she had done to piss him off, he STILL let her come back to his own show. In many ways, he looked after her better than anyone else would have in show business & gave her so many opportunities, & I think that she was actually his favourite of all his TV "kids." When you watch them on screen, there was a real father/daughter warmth there that seemed to be lacking with most of the other kids. But, I do appreciate that she was too professional to wade into the ugliness of the Cosby allegations.
That why it would have been actual ground breaking tv, to show a good girl from a rich family making the difficult choices...it would've been amazing tv and Debbie Allen was all for it. And since Debbie Allen has a moral compass, I'll stick to her ideas involving young people and not Bill's... Just sayin
This! I’m always amazed at how people overlook the fact that he really could’ve kicked her to the curb without trying to help her. At the end of the day she was an employee of the Cosby Show. Period.
@@cims1ty640I think that had more to do with spin. After several years, the audience was FAR more attached to Denise than Sandra who was always a kind of ghost character (in and out and in fact tacked on after the pilot because in the pilot they clearly state they have four children cause they did not want five as a joke, then a fifth child shows up that was ‘in college’). People get attached to the kids in Sitcoms. Recasting Denise would have caused dissonance for the audience and people were attached to the Cosby kids as the Cosby kids, so people would want to know what is going on with Denise and it would have been more work to keep her invisible tbh, even the last couple seasons where they had Olivia and her parents were ‘away’ was one of those far fetched sitcom plot lines. So with A different world what better way to sell a new show than a character the audience was already invested in? Hence, A different World benefitted Cosby in that the audience still got to see Denise Huxtable and what she was up to without her having to be on the Cosby set. If he really cared about her, he could have found a way to work around her pregnancy as well even if he didn’t want Denise to be pregnant . Several shows did that with creative shooting techniques and its college, by that point other characters had storylines so you could have lightly written in Denise shot around the pregnancy until the baby was born, and the upped her presence. It has been done before. I also notice they started to write Denise as far more air headed and flighty when she returned to the Cosby Show with the Olivia plotline after being a fairly sharp and capable teen character. Luckily a Different World was a hit and the audience did eventually latch on to the new characters for the sake of themselves and not the tie to the Cosby show.
@@mickey34jb Cosbys issue was not in finding WILLING partners. The man was always incredibly handsome. He didn't want WILLING partners, he wanted comatose dead feeling women... That's the part that turns my stomach, the man I looked up to my entire life basically has a necrophilia kink ...
I read an article about her a while back and what I took from it was she was always a free spirit with a rebellious nature. Bill sort of wanted to reel that in and tame her. She didn't like that (obviously being young, it probably was an exaggerated dislike for him once he showed her that distaste for what she perceived to just be HER). Once she got pregnant and her part was written out of A Different World, that was the icing on the cake.
@@starlightrocks7 we know. I was just answering the question of what Lisa didn't like about Bill Cosby. It could have been more to it than that... But Im not here to write down assumptions. But I agree... her character wasn't really missed on the show due to Whitley Gilbert's character
@@ladylin3026 Yes, BC was trying to keep LB on the right path with her career, but as you mentioned, she was rebellious and did that horrible movie, "Angel Heart" which flopped, and it followed her through her career because it diminished her image.
The show was wonderful. Bill not so much. Two different things can be true at the same time. Just because people don’t like Bill Cosby, the man, doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the Cosby Show.
Funny thing is that now in today’s entertainment you see women of every race being a single mother. Especially on Law & Order: SVU, two of the main characters played single mothers.
Did you know that Lenny Kravitz tried to get Lisa Bonet back but she is a strong young lady and that was a no just like that Mimosa guy I seen it just the other night when they announced they were separating and he tried to kiss her on the chicken she pulled away from him and don't think so
Yes it was great and still is, but let's not forget that now, due to his own actions, it's a gem in tv history DESPITE Bill Cosby, not because of him. It makes me sick what he did to those women... And it makes me sad what he did to the tv show I loved my whole life long. All those actors not getting residual checks because Bill couldn't stop r**ing comatose women... I'm all for having the backs of our idols, but only the ones who deserve it, like the rest of the cast, for example...
@@heydeanie fuck them women waited a 1000 years to speak up, Trump ass still free, Harvey W movie available to view any and everywhere, leave Pill Crosby alone
Her first year or so on the Cosby Show with short hair and weird makeup she did nothing for me. But then when she grew it out and had a more natural look? Oh man oh man…🥰
The weird makeup was a thing back then, though. When it said that she auditioned with half her face made up, she probably had it done up like Patty Smyth on the Warrior album.
Who does that? A no pregnancy clause in film and TV has been around since 1922 . There is also a no weight gain clause for both men and woman depending on the role. That was not just a Bill Cosby thing.
As a producer in Hollywood, I can say as a matter of opinion , such a clause is offensive and harassing and should be considered compromising to the business.
She screwed up.. The Cosby show was suppossed to be a show about BLACKS actually having morals and a strong family values..Getting pregnant young didn't show that..
i bet you anything Cosby blew Kravitz and his mom up when he got the news of the pregnancy. To hear those calls would be hilarious. Especially the one with Lenny. It probably started with "youuuuuuuuuu" (cosby voice) lol.
Yes, I can believe that because, at that time. Black people were being betrayed so ugly on television and he was the only man that stood up for us. And allowed us to see what positivity in the black family really is about. Because every black family is not poor and living in the slums. So yes, I can believe why you fired Lisa bonette. Give me a break she was not little girl's role models.
Lisa wanted too much too soon, I think cosby show made her, she wanted much more. Her talent was not seasoned enough and she jumped early taking parts @ the time not suitable for her, but if she is happy that's all that matter.😊
Nothing against Lisa, she's awesome, but yes, you hit the nail on the head as to why the Cosby Show was & still is, such an important show, & it deserves its place in history, despite what Cosby did. That has nothing to do with the show. I applaud TV1 for continuing to air the Cosby Show, when other networks have been shamefully trying to bury it.
'Asleep at the wheel.' 00:17 - 00:24 "Remember the drop-dead gorgeous Lisa Bonet from that iconic '90s hit TV series, 'The Cosby Show?' No; of course not. But we ALL remember the drop-dead gorgeous Lisa Bonet from that iconic '80s hit TV series, 'The Cosby Show.'" Why 'fudge' the dates, especially on an 'iconic' network, prime time series where the dates, especially the GROUND-BREAKING year it premiered, 1984, are seared into our brains? Was this a backhanded attempt to make the focus of the video a decade younger? Mistakes like this don't happen when writers feel obligated to check their dates, instantly available on so many reliable, reputable sources. With all the individuals at "Soulful Screen TV," advertising agencies, publicity firms, etc. that vet the final cut, easily half a dozen individuals should have raised their hands AND voices: "'80s, '80s, '80s -- '90s NOT." Pundits will ask, "Why didn't the voice artist doing narration catch it?" Note to "Soulful Screen TV" -- This twelve-and-a-half minute report on ultra talented, endearing Lisa Bonet is revealing, respectful, nostalgic and fun. So, why blow it in the first half minute?
I'm sorry that she and Jason divorced 😢But I understand why she did it ❤ she loves him, but she has already been through all the Hollywood fame and being in the Spotlight 🙄And it's not her thing😳 And that's okay! I still see the love there... YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO! I think that she wants him to enjoy this time in his life! I don't think she cares for the notoriety! She would rather have a more layed back life❤ I very much admire her,she is true to herself... It wouldn't surprise me if they end up back together ❤❤❤❤❤❤
They were a power couple, in my eyes, & I wanted to be Lenny so bad!!! Fun fact, Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love would pretend, for fun, to be Lenny & Lisa, in private! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Lisa Bonnet is absolutely something else! She is amazing n a power 2 herself! I only wish she had gotten in2 more incredible films but that's not her fault w the shit they put out there! I don't know that she escaped that Jekyll Hyde hypocrite cosby, I can only pray, but I definitely give her credit 4 drop kicking 2 of the most handsome men that walked this planet cause they fell dirty n she weren't having it! She set the bar n like most beautiful black actresses has not been given credit 4 her ground breaking work in film n breaking barriers that made it a little easier 4 some of the ladies who came after her including Angelina Jolie! Yes, I know she's not black but I think she took off faster because Lisa disappeared. They both have that look!
Bill was right to portray a certain image of young black men and women in "A Different World" which is why the show was a success. BTW, Bill was released from prison because he didn't do anything, it was another way to put a black man in his place after he wanted to purchase the NBC network.
Right?😂😂Lisa regretted not listening to Bill Cosby because he was directing her on the right path, and she chose to rebel. Instead of pointing a finger at herself for her failed career, she wants to point the blame at him.
I knew it was a bad idea 👎 when they got together. Married too soon didn’t give it a chance to blossom didn’t know how to navigate living with each other. They were young with no rule book 📖 on a real relationship after the infatuation wore off
What? Bill Cosby was against Lisa being in the movie "Angel Heart" because of the image that she portrayed on The Cosby Show, and he was right because Lisa never had any offers to act in top-selling movies. Matter of fact, her daughter's acting career has surprised her mothers.
I'm an admirer of the show, the characters and the actors. But, you gloss of the fact that she was chronically late and reeking of weed (according to her co-stars) as if that's nothing. Time is money in any business, especially entertainment. And her parents were the only parents that didn't have a strong presence on set, like didn't come around. I'm still a fan, but let's not act as if she wasn't problematic to an extent.
@CharleneEdwards-eb6vz Never said that he nor anyone else was. Just being logical and remembering what cast mates said about working with her. Anything that Mr. Cosby is about, doesn't change what she was about while on these shows. And don't yell in the comments, especially not towards me.
@La-wr5dn No one yelled at you. She was actually removed from the show because she was pregnant. They had problems with some of the other cast members, but Cosby focused on her because getting pregnant was not a good look for the show, thus said the perv that date raped women for decades. Sorry, that's not the subject. I apologize if you felt I yelled at you. Have a blessed day 🙏🏽 ✨️ 💛.
Bill didn't want Lisa.😂😂 Lisa messed up her career when did that horrible movie, "Angel Heart" which flopped. Bill begged her not to do that movie because he knew the backlash that she would get. That decision that Lisa made to do that movie followed her throughout her career and it pretty much ended her acting career.
I don’t know this for sure but from what I saw early on Lisa Bonet did not care for Cosby at all. I couldn’t figure out why, but as the years have passed I have a better understanding of what “might” have been going on. I watched a special called We Need To Talk About Cosby and in that show one of the co-stars talked about seeing all these women around. Now if he saw all these women I have to imagine Bonet did too. Bonet was young when she did that show and young people don’t like it when adults are publicly saying this but privately doing something else. It’s also possible that Cosby tried some crap with her although I don’t think so. I believe Bonet had Cosby’s number from the get and that’s probably why they didn’t get along.
I loved both of those shows. As a Caucasian & European (born and raised in Europe), some people around me were surprised I enjoyed a show where nobody looked like me, but I really did, and I even fancied being part of that seemingly ideal family. I even thought and answered at the time: "Isn't that something non-Caucasians deal with all the time?" At least back then very much so.
Cosby should talk he's far from innocent hiding behind his good guy wholesome image that came back to bite him in the ass. As for Lisa her life as long as it didn't interfere with the show besides many things happen to people in real life they just write into the script. TV and movie land is not perfect this show was a family show she grew up and these things happen. Besides white or colored I think most people guys of course tuned in to see Lisa and the woman that played Cosby's wife both very attractive women. I saw this show growing up and even at a young age I thought them both attractive and I'm white if that really means anything?
Do you understand within black society to have pregnant black women in college was a bad image for young black men and women? The point was for black men and women to excel in life by being focused on their education, and because of "The Cosby Show and A Different World," many black men and women went to college and succeeded because of the image and message that was delivered.
@@CommeLePapillon I totally agree and it’s getting worse and worse. Slang and Ebonics have become the norm and I can’t even understand what the people are talking about
And a different world will still apart a bill. Cosby's little asana back then. So, as you can see, she did not stay long once he got found out that she was pregnant. Which is a good thing because, at that time, teenagers were getting pregnant by the dozens. Little girls so. Yes, I believe why he fired her because she was not the type of role model. He was trying to betray. For black people at that time, you people can say what you want to say about Bill Cosby, but I still think he's a great man, so go on with yourself.Those who don't have stones to be thrown at themselves.Please go away
@@starlightrocks7 again, the point is, two of the girls on the show are majority white by race, the parents were not, the obvious conclusion is that Claire had outside relations, and maybe that is the black culture in a nutshell, so who was the biological father(s) the most ignored question today in the black community.
she was okay, when I was in high school all my friends were crazy about her. Me? She was alright. But even when she was on that show, I could sense some tension between Cosby and Bonet
The decision she made to do that movie followed her throughout her life. Lisa had father issues, and Bill was like a father figure to her, but she didn't listen to him. If you have noticed the rest of the Cosby kids kept a relationship with Bill and they are successful today.
Lenny shouldn't have cheated on her (the reason for their divorce); same with Jason Momoa, he shouldn't have cheated on her, either. They BOTH blew a good thing.
Denise being pregnant on A Different World would have been a very different show. She also insisted on wearing her wedding ring during taping, which inserts her real life into her fictional character’s life. Pulling Bonet kept the focus on Black college life. (I hated the first season of ADW because it was like a white school with ditzy black people. The show without Lisa was much more on point.) Bill Cosby didn’t diss her. She reappeared, married, on the Cosby show for a few more seasons-wedding ring and all.
There was a rumor that Zoey 101 was cancelled because Jamie Lee Spears got pregnant. But Jamie Spears said in an interview, Zoey 101 ended because it was time for it to end. Enough said.
Ok right! She hated him! What is she doing now? Her man dumped her and now she wants to blame Cosby! She is the only one from the show that has issues with him. She wanted the show to be all about her!
He didn’t dump her. He wanted fame….. she didn’t…… they outgrew each other. I’d guess - she broke it off with him. She’s tired of people “still judging her”. She just wants to be Happy and she has plenty to be Happy for.
Not true. She’s actually been very quiet about her feelings for and about bill cosby. Raven Simone actually had an issue with bill as well. She’s not blaming anyone. She’s always lived a 80% private life. She’s changed her name legally for a reason. That young lady is not giving BC a second thought.
Denise had father issues, and like most biracial kids that are raised by their yt mothers, are confused and rebellious. Bill tried to direct Lisa, but she chose not to listen.
Lisa Bonnet was a big part of the success of the Cosby Show. It was never the same after she left.
That is so true. She was everyone's favorite on that show. I started watching "It's a different world" because of her.
She gave the show a "cool" vibe, which moved it away from being The Brady Bunch
Yes, I feel we were all really there to see Denise and Theo
I agree!!!!
Facts 💯
Lisa is beautiful ❤
She also has a nice voice.
Her daughter Zoe is as beautiful as her also
Yeah but Jasmine Guy totally wiped her off the map in A Different World.
@@truther001 oh no waaaaay was Jasmine Guy prettier than Lisa...
She is just beautiful!!❤
I went to High School with Lisa Bonet, she did what she pleased and could care less what others think. 😂😂
Good
Yoo that‘s so dope! How was she?
Damn she knew Rudy was to young to see the bs 😂
@@dextersdad6920 She was quite and didn't like to be called black/african american. She would always call herself Mulatto or White.
Whatever
I saw her and Lenny together in San Diego years ago, and they looked so happy together.
That's awesome, what we're they doing?
Cosby could not control her . That was a good thing .
given what we know about Bill Cosby now and his treatment of young girls, actresses and playboy models now his interest in Lisa Bonet is creepy
Lisa and Lenny was never a power couple. They was just a couple living their lives on their own terms.
SPEAK ENGLISH DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH
You know, there is A LOT that is being left out of this story, & it's being retold in a COMPLETELY different time. When the Denise character went off to Hillman, he could have treated her the way that Sondra was treated for the first two years, as someone who just dropped in for the occasional holiday or weekend trip home. But, he gave her a WHOLE sitcom of her own that followed his own timeslot, the second most powerful coattails on TV at the time. And, he is right that America would have LOST THEIR MINDS about Denise Huxtable being pregnant out of wedlock. Today, it happens ALL THE TIME & everyone is cool with it, but back then, there was still shame associated with it, & IF it happened to upper class girls, they either had an abortion or had it & gave it away. Almost NONE of them kept the baby & raised it on their own. That was the zeitgeist of the mid 80s. But, after all she had done to piss him off, he STILL let her come back to his own show. In many ways, he looked after her better than anyone else would have in show business & gave her so many opportunities, & I think that she was actually his favourite of all his TV "kids." When you watch them on screen, there was a real father/daughter warmth there that seemed to be lacking with most of the other kids. But, I do appreciate that she was too professional to wade into the ugliness of the Cosby allegations.
Bill was a Control Freak which is part of being the Sx Abuser that he is!
That why it would have been actual ground breaking tv, to show a good girl from a rich family making the difficult choices...it would've been amazing tv and Debbie Allen was all for it. And since Debbie Allen has a moral compass, I'll stick to her ideas involving young people and not Bill's... Just sayin
I couldn’t have said all of this better. Bill Cosby treated Lisa Bonet better than the other children on the show.
This! I’m always amazed at how people overlook the fact that he really could’ve kicked her to the curb without trying to help her. At the end of the day she was an employee of the Cosby Show. Period.
@@cims1ty640I think that had more to do with spin. After several years, the audience was FAR more attached to Denise than Sandra who was always a kind of ghost character (in and out and in fact tacked on after the pilot because in the pilot they clearly state they have four children cause they did not want five as a joke, then a fifth child shows up that was ‘in college’). People get attached to the kids in Sitcoms. Recasting Denise would have caused dissonance for the audience and people were attached to the Cosby kids as the Cosby kids, so people would want to know what is going on with Denise and it would have been more work to keep her invisible tbh, even the last couple seasons where they had Olivia and her parents were ‘away’ was one of those far fetched sitcom plot lines. So with A different world what better way to sell a new show than a character the audience was already invested in? Hence, A different World benefitted Cosby in that the audience still got to see Denise Huxtable and what she was up to without her having to be on the Cosby set. If he really cared about her, he could have found a way to work around her pregnancy as well even if he didn’t want Denise to be pregnant . Several shows did that with creative shooting techniques and its college, by that point other characters had storylines so you could have lightly written in Denise shot around the pregnancy until the baby was born, and the upped her presence. It has been done before.
I also notice they started to write Denise as far more air headed and flighty when she returned to the Cosby Show with the Olivia plotline after being a fairly sharp and capable teen character.
Luckily a Different World was a hit and the audience did eventually latch on to the new characters for the sake of themselves and not the tie to the Cosby show.
Look who turned out to be DISTASTEFUL...😏🙂↔️
Elvis said it best__"You can't be married in rock-n-roll". The women and/or groupies throw themselves at you.
So true
@@mickey34jb Cosbys issue was not in finding WILLING partners. The man was always incredibly handsome. He didn't want WILLING partners, he wanted comatose dead feeling women... That's the part that turns my stomach, the man I looked up to my entire life basically has a necrophilia kink ...
@@mickey34jbThen you shouldnt have relationships unless you made it clear that it will be an open one.
Exactly
No one would know Lisa Monet without the iconic shows of a different world and the Cosby show, but her face has not changed. She still looks great!
Lol, ok.
And her daughter looks just like her
For real I hate how they are trying to take his legacy 😔
@Mosthighsgirl80 I agree with you to a certain extent. He did it to himself when he started f-ing with the lice culture.
She literally ate every single hairstyle😍
I hate clickbait cause there was absolutely nothing in this video that referenced the title. We still don’t know what about Bill gave her bad vibes. 🙄
I read an article about her a while back and what I took from it was she was always a free spirit with a rebellious nature. Bill sort of wanted to reel that in and tame her. She didn't like that (obviously being young, it probably was an exaggerated dislike for him once he showed her that distaste for what she perceived to just be HER). Once she got pregnant and her part was written out of A Different World, that was the icing on the cake.
Um. Yes. We do.
@@ladylin3026 "A Different World" exceeded after Lisa's dismissal.
@@starlightrocks7 we know. I was just answering the question of what Lisa didn't like about Bill Cosby. It could have been more to it than that... But Im not here to write down assumptions. But I agree... her character wasn't really missed on the show due to Whitley Gilbert's character
@@ladylin3026 Yes, BC was trying to keep LB on the right path with her career, but as you mentioned, she was rebellious and did that horrible movie, "Angel Heart" which flopped, and it followed her through her career because it diminished her image.
80's series debuted in 1984
For real?
The show was wonderful. Bill not so much. Two different things can be true at the same time. Just because people don’t like Bill Cosby, the man, doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the Cosby Show.
Their daughter Zoe" looks just like her momma
Both…
Has her dads eyes.
Zoe is just as weird as Lisa.
No Bill could not use Lisa as a pregnant, unmarried girl on that show. It definitely would've sent the wrong message about Black people to the world.
But clair was used while pregnant. So was it the message or was it about controlling Lisa? Remember this is a fictional TV show
Funny thing is that now in today’s entertainment you see women of every race being a single mother. Especially on Law & Order: SVU, two of the main characters played single mothers.
Clair was pregnant in real life and found ways to hide it, why not Denise?
@@deborahjohnson-b8o2 characters laying in bed and hiding their bellies under dining tables might have been overkill.
There could have been several different inventive ways it could have been camouflaged.
It's so sad that Lenny Kravitz had it all and he cheated.
He thought he had it like that , like most of them do
Jason cheated also per reports.
Did you know that Lenny Kravitz tried to get Lisa Bonet back but she is a strong young lady and that was a no just like that Mimosa guy I seen it just the other night when they announced they were separating and he tried to kiss her on the chicken she pulled away from him and don't think so
He got it honestly, his daddy was a big time cheater and he didn’t like him.
Lenny is doing just fine.....
Lisa Bonet is 57. She is NOT in her "early 50s." And yes, she is still beautiful and fine.
Lisa & and the lady who played the older sister in the show had similar features.
Lisa and lenny were a good couple. Theire daughter is pure elegance.
I loved both of those shows. Lisa was so very cute and a very good actress.
For us, 80s kids Lisa was the coolest big sister we all wanted.
Yet Bill Crosby should have been fired. Not squeaky clean
Bill Cosby fried for what?
He didn't do anything wrong during the eight seasons of The Cosby show
@@starlightrocks7Spanish fly!
Lisa was a dream and Angel Heart was a blast of a movie
Forgot about pretty Lisa is
Bill was just trying to help, please leave this man alone damn I am a black woman and the show was great for the culture ❤❤❤❤
Yes it was great and still is, but let's not forget that now, due to his own actions, it's a gem in tv history DESPITE Bill Cosby, not because of him. It makes me sick what he did to those women... And it makes me sad what he did to the tv show I loved my whole life long. All those actors not getting residual checks because Bill couldn't stop r**ing comatose women... I'm all for having the backs of our idols, but only the ones who deserve it, like the rest of the cast, for example...
@@heydeanie fuck them women waited a 1000 years to speak up, Trump ass still free, Harvey W movie available to view any and everywhere, leave Pill Crosby alone
you're an ostrich mame.
Her first year or so on the Cosby Show with short hair and weird makeup she did nothing for me. But then when she grew it out and had a more natural look? Oh man oh man…🥰
She was always the most beautiful girl I've ever seen❤
The weird makeup was a thing back then, though. When it said that she auditioned with half her face made up, she probably had it done up like Patty Smyth on the Warrior album.
Dana Plato was just like this...she got pregnant while filming 'Different Strokes" & she was let go too
And look how her life turned out? Dismissing young women due to life events is disgusting behavior
During that era, the audience had morals, so there was a certain image that had to be presented.
@@heydeanie Dana had prior issues because she could've bounced back and gotten other jobs.
Who does that? A no pregnancy clause in film and TV has been around since 1922 . There is also a no weight gain clause for both men and woman depending on the role. That was not just a Bill Cosby thing.
As a producer in Hollywood, I can say as a matter of opinion , such a clause is offensive and harassing and should be considered compromising to the business.
She screwed up.. The Cosby show was suppossed to be a show about BLACKS actually having morals and a strong family values..Getting pregnant young didn't show that..
She was married.
The Cosby Show came out in the 80's
1984 Cosby Show NBC
She’s gorgeous
It was fine after she left the other actors where just as talented as she was how do you hate someone who put you on the road to success.
It's more an 80s hit than 90s
When did Lenny make his last hit?
Does she ever eat?
What happened with Aquaman? He did that role, made millions and …… dumped her? !!!!
Wow!
Amber happened and that movie was bust because she was in it
i bet you anything Cosby blew Kravitz and his mom up when he got the news of the pregnancy. To hear those calls would be hilarious. Especially the one with Lenny. It probably started with "youuuuuuuuuu" (cosby voice) lol.
My only regret was too young for Lisa Bonet 🌹
Iconic 90 TV show??? AND he didn't fire her as soon as she got pregnant! That came 2 years later.
Yes, I can believe that because, at that time. Black people were being betrayed so ugly on television and he was the only man that stood up for us. And allowed us to see what positivity in the black family really is about. Because every black family is not poor and living in the slums. So yes, I can believe why you fired Lisa bonette. Give me a break she was not little girl's role models.
Lisa wanted too much too soon, I think cosby show made her, she wanted much more. Her talent was not seasoned enough and she jumped early taking parts @ the time not suitable for her, but if she is happy that's all that matter.😊
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“PORTRAYED”
Nothing against Lisa, she's awesome, but yes, you hit the nail on the head as to why the Cosby Show was & still is, such an important show, & it deserves its place in history, despite what Cosby did. That has nothing to do with the show. I applaud TV1 for continuing to air the Cosby Show, when other networks have been shamefully trying to bury it.
'Asleep at the wheel.'
00:17 - 00:24 "Remember the drop-dead gorgeous Lisa Bonet from that iconic '90s hit TV series, 'The Cosby Show?' No; of course not. But we ALL remember the drop-dead gorgeous Lisa Bonet from that iconic '80s hit TV series, 'The Cosby Show.'"
Why 'fudge' the dates, especially on an 'iconic' network, prime time series where the dates, especially the GROUND-BREAKING year it premiered, 1984, are seared into our brains? Was this a backhanded attempt to make the focus of the video a decade younger? Mistakes like this don't happen when writers feel obligated to check their dates, instantly available on so many reliable, reputable sources. With all the individuals at "Soulful Screen TV," advertising agencies, publicity firms, etc. that vet the final cut, easily half a dozen individuals should have raised their hands AND voices: "'80s, '80s, '80s -- '90s NOT." Pundits will ask, "Why didn't the voice artist doing narration catch it?"
Note to "Soulful Screen TV" -- This twelve-and-a-half minute report on ultra talented, endearing Lisa Bonet is revealing, respectful, nostalgic and fun. So, why blow it in the first half minute?
She’s very beautiful
I'm sorry that she and Jason divorced 😢But I understand why she did it ❤ she loves him, but she has already been through all the Hollywood fame and being in the Spotlight 🙄And it's not her thing😳
And that's okay!
I still see the love there...
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE LET THEM GO! I think that she wants him to enjoy this time in his life! I don't think she cares for the notoriety! She would rather have a more layed back life❤ I very much admire her,she is true to herself...
It wouldn't surprise me if they end up back together ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Honey they were no POWER COUPLE ,,,please !!😂😂
They definitely were not.
Right!!!
They are powerfully beautiful
They were a power couple, in my eyes, & I wanted to be Lenny so bad!!! Fun fact, Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love would pretend, for fun, to be Lenny & Lisa, in private! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I agree with Bill, he wanted a better image for black America and now look at the image. I wish to have more of the Cosby image for today’s youth
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But not real Bill Cosby !! Drugging and R wording women .. what a POS!💩
A Grapist as a role model
@@coreymyers7409 Yep. Quite the role model.
But look at what he did to sooo many girls, very abusive
Cosby has often said that he wanted to give her a part in his new production of ' Fiddler on the Roofie ' .
Lisa Bonnet is absolutely something else! She is amazing n a power 2 herself! I only wish she had gotten in2 more incredible films but that's not her fault w the shit they put out there! I don't know that she escaped that Jekyll Hyde hypocrite cosby, I can only pray, but I definitely give her credit 4 drop kicking 2 of the most handsome men that walked this planet cause they fell dirty n she weren't having it! She set the bar n like most beautiful black actresses has not been given credit 4 her ground breaking work in film n breaking barriers that made it a little easier 4 some of the ladies who came after her including Angelina Jolie! Yes, I know she's not black but I think she took off faster because Lisa disappeared. They both have that look!
Now Girl 😂 7:59 mark the right pic is BEYONCÉ and her twins dressed up on Halloween lol
Bill wasn't pure either😮
Bill was right to portray a certain image of young black men and women in "A Different World" which is why the show was a success. BTW, Bill was released from prison because he didn't do anything, it was another way to put a black man in his place after he wanted to purchase the NBC network.
Show was great ..Loved Dr Huxtable's Father😂 and Cockroach 😂
I forget his name, but the man who played Cliff's father, was also the voice of Panthero, (I think I spelled his name right, lol), on the Thundercats.
Hey Bill, remember somebody named Autumn Jackson? Did you know his fatherhood books were ghost written?
Who wrote fatherhood books?
Autumn was possibly bills child.
Autumn tried to extort him claiming she was his child. Nothing has been proven to this day.
Yeah, now that it’s convenient to pile-on the hate, she just happens to remember, 40 years later, that she always hated him. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
Right?😂😂Lisa regretted not listening to Bill Cosby because he was directing her on the right path, and she chose to rebel. Instead of pointing a finger at herself for her failed career, she wants to point the blame at him.
@@starlightrocks7 -Chick-brain stuff. No accountability required.
Outside of the other stuff, I believe she outgrew the role. She had a lot of potential as a big actress.
It's a shame that such a beautiful girl could not find herself a true life partner.
Lisa is weird, and Zoe is leading on the same path.
I just know Lisa tried to replicate a Gordon Gartrell
I knew it was a bad idea 👎 when they got together. Married too soon didn’t give it a chance to blossom didn’t know how to navigate living with each other. They were young with no rule book 📖 on a real relationship after the infatuation wore off
At the time she was deciding to do Angel Heart, the news media said Cosby encouraged her to take the role.
What? Bill Cosby was against Lisa being in the movie "Angel Heart" because of the image that she portrayed on The Cosby Show, and he was right because Lisa never had any offers to act in top-selling movies. Matter of fact, her daughter's acting career has surprised her mothers.
I'm an admirer of the show, the characters and the actors. But, you gloss of the fact that she was chronically late and reeking of weed (according to her co-stars) as if that's nothing. Time is money in any business, especially entertainment. And her parents were the only parents that didn't have a strong presence on set, like didn't come around. I'm still a fan, but let's not act as if she wasn't problematic to an extent.
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Yeah, like Cosby was pure!!
@CharleneEdwards-eb6vz Never said that he nor anyone else was. Just being logical and remembering what cast mates said about working with her. Anything that Mr. Cosby is about, doesn't change what she was about while on these shows. And don't yell in the comments, especially not towards me.
What's so wrong with weed though?
@La-wr5dn No one yelled at you. She was actually removed from the show because she was pregnant. They had problems with some of the other cast members, but Cosby focused on her because getting pregnant was not a good look for the show, thus said the perv that date raped women for decades. Sorry, that's not the subject. I apologize if you felt I yelled at you. Have a blessed day 🙏🏽 ✨️ 💛.
You can tell she lived life between the cosby show, diffrent world, and angel hut!! So sad but beautiful...👑👑🪷🌸🌺💕💐 YES bohemian Queen.❤❤
Cosby saw her as a future victim and when she got pregnant, that insulted him.
I must agree 😖
Bill was mad Because it wasn't His. Just Saying knowing what cane out about him .
Allegedly. Just Maybe.
Bill didn't want Lisa.😂😂 Lisa messed up her career when did that horrible movie, "Angel Heart" which flopped. Bill begged her not to do that movie because he knew the backlash that she would get. That decision that Lisa made to do that movie followed her throughout her career and it pretty much ended her acting career.
Being fired was the least that happened to her considering what we have come to know about sleepy time Billy.
I don’t know this for sure but from what I saw early on Lisa Bonet did not care for Cosby at all. I couldn’t figure out why, but as the years have passed I have a better understanding of what “might” have been going on. I watched a special called We Need To Talk About Cosby and in that show one of the co-stars talked about seeing all these women around. Now if he saw all these women I have to imagine Bonet did too. Bonet was young when she did that show and young people don’t like it when adults are publicly saying this but privately doing something else. It’s also possible that Cosby tried some crap with her although I don’t think so. I believe Bonet had Cosby’s number from the get and that’s probably why they didn’t get along.
It’s sad couples can’t stay with one person. It’s a sad place
That's because folks are further from God.
I love Lisa! Always!
Did she say 90's tv show? If i recall it started in 1984... Thats not the 90's.
Sorry am i the only one that Lisa and Jason SHOULD STILL BE TOGETHER????😢
I loved both of those shows. As a Caucasian & European (born and raised in Europe), some people around me were surprised I enjoyed a show where nobody looked like me, but I really did, and I even fancied being part of that seemingly ideal family. I even thought and answered at the time: "Isn't that something non-Caucasians deal with all the time?" At least back then very much so.
A self centered narcissist- Who gives a F about her rebellion and personal "statements"??!!
Lisa B had some secrets as well.
Cosby should talk he's far from innocent hiding behind his good guy wholesome image that came back to bite him in the ass. As for Lisa her life as long as it didn't interfere with the show besides many things happen to people in real life they just write into the script. TV and movie land is not perfect this show was a family show she grew up and these things happen. Besides white or colored I think most people guys of course tuned in to see Lisa and the woman that played Cosby's wife both very attractive women. I saw this show growing up and even at a young age I thought them both attractive and I'm white if that really means anything?
My dad loved Mrs Huxable. He told me she would be my next mom. My immediate family is white.
Do you understand within black society to have pregnant black women in college was a bad image for young black men and women? The point was for black men and women to excel in life by being focused on their education, and because of "The Cosby Show and A Different World," many black men and women went to college and succeeded because of the image and message that was delivered.
@@debbi8990 I am sure your Dad did love Ms. Huxtable. 😂😂
I had the biggest crush on her back in the day. I’ve always been a fan…
@dfk09, me too man, me too!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
But how ever she had a roll in a different world and she came back.......
Her role in a different world was really dumbed down. Didn’t like that at all
It’s a *role*. Not a roll. I’m becoming less and less surprised that’s these kids cannot read or comprehend any damn thing.
@@CommeLePapillon I totally agree and it’s getting worse and worse. Slang and Ebonics have become the norm and I can’t even understand what the people are talking about
And a different world will still apart a bill. Cosby's little asana back then. So, as you can see, she did not stay long once he got found out that she was pregnant. Which is a good thing because, at that time, teenagers were getting pregnant by the dozens. Little girls so. Yes, I believe why he fired her because she was not the type of role model. He was trying to betray. For black people at that time, you people can say what you want to say about Bill Cosby, but I still think he's a great man, so go on with yourself.Those who don't have stones to be thrown at themselves.Please go away
It was because she posed nude!! I remember that from back then. But then she wasn’t fired was she… given her own show… and then came back.
she didn't pose nude, she WAS NUDE in the film ANGEL HEART.
“Angel Heart” is intense, it was quite good, very scary!
"Angel Heart" was a terrible movie that helped to end her career.
He hated Lenny Kravitz, that was another problem he had with the pregnancy...
The casting of mixed race kids was sus....
Why was that suspect?😂😂 They are still Black Americans.
@@starlightrocks7 mixed not black
@@cannotsay5505 Tethers are not like us. We're proud to be Black Americans because we're the culture.
@@starlightrocks7 again, the point is, two of the girls on the show are majority white by race, the parents were not, the obvious conclusion is that Claire had outside relations, and maybe that is the black culture in a nutshell, so who was the biological father(s) the most ignored question today in the black community.
My favourite meal at A&W is the Mozzarella burger with Sweet Potato fries and a frosted mug of Root beer.
Wow that's interesting ❤❤❤
It was an 80s hit not a 90s hit
Sometimes your gut just tells you and you need to listen
We loved Lisa. HE got payback
WOW...payback...God judges you too.
High in sight is 20/20 he didn't want the legacy of the Cosby show ruined by Lisa's personal life, now look at how his legacy has been ruined
Yet he was ruining it all along with his bad behavior.
She was great in that show.
We wouldn't know Lisa Bonet if it weren't for Bill Cosby
This all makes her seem like a very chaotic and reckless person… the presenter keeps putting a positive tone to bad behavior
she was okay, when I was in high school all my friends were crazy about her. Me? She was alright. But even when she was on that show, I could sense some tension between Cosby and Bonet
He probably had the hots for her. That's my assessment.
I thought it was her role as a Voodoo priestess in that movie.
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I never thought Cosby was funny or real.
I'll be you think Wilt Chamberlain would have made a good jockey, too.
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You poor thing.
I got grimy vibes from him.
Angel Heart should have been rated xxx.
The decision she made to do that movie followed her throughout her life. Lisa had father issues, and Bill was like a father figure to her, but she didn't listen to him. If you have noticed the rest of the Cosby kids kept a relationship with Bill and they are successful today.
He should know "what's distasteful" what a joke
He tried to protect Lisa.
Isn’t his “wholesome family” image a bit ironic?
I remember reading somewhere that Bill Cosby was a beloved figure in prison. But Lisa Bonet is definitely a great actor.
She’s a great actress
Lisa could've been a good actress if she was focused on her craft. She wanted to rebel, and so did that horrible movie, "Angel Heart."
Lisa should’ve stayed married to Lenny Kravitz Lisa is so beautiful
Lenny shouldn't have cheated on her (the reason for their divorce); same with Jason Momoa, he shouldn't have cheated on her, either. They BOTH blew a good thing.
Denise being pregnant on A Different World would have been a very different show. She also insisted on wearing her wedding ring during taping, which inserts her real life into her fictional character’s life. Pulling Bonet kept the focus on Black college life. (I hated the first season of ADW because it was like a white school with ditzy black people. The show without Lisa was much more on point.)
Bill Cosby didn’t diss her. She reappeared, married, on the Cosby show for a few more seasons-wedding ring and all.
There was a rumor that Zoey 101 was cancelled because Jamie Lee Spears got pregnant. But Jamie Spears said in an interview, Zoey 101 ended because it was time for it to end. Enough said.
Ok right! She hated him! What is she doing now? Her man dumped her and now she wants to blame Cosby! She is the only one from the show that has issues with him. She wanted the show to be all about her!
He didn’t dump her. He wanted fame….. she didn’t…… they outgrew each other. I’d guess - she broke it off with him. She’s tired of people “still judging her”. She just wants to be Happy and she has plenty to be Happy for.
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Not true. She’s actually been very quiet about her feelings for and about bill cosby.
Raven Simone actually had an issue with bill as well.
She’s not blaming anyone. She’s always lived a 80% private life. She’s changed her name legally for a reason.
That young lady is not giving BC a second thought.
@@LightingYourLifeEnterprises Raven is seeking attention
Don’t nobody care about Raven anymore! She played out! Now she is black according to her. Move on.
If she hated him so why work with him she had choices
He had huge influence at that time. She made the best decision with the information she had at the time.
She probably saw right through him!
Yea u will think that.. Bcuz u don't like him.. Saw nothing..
Yup, I bet she saw some things.
Denise had father issues, and like most biracial kids that are raised by their yt mothers, are confused and rebellious. Bill tried to direct Lisa, but she chose not to listen.
I've seen footage of Jason feeling up his daughter in hi
Yup..hes a pig..
Thank you for the information
Cosby Show is actually originally an 80s sitcom