Geoffrey Owens Says Losing TV Royalties After Bill Cosby's Scandal 'Impacted Me Financially'

Show me the pricks shaming this guy, I just wanna chat.

Earning a steady income is not easy especially in something like showbiz when you have no idea when/if you'll have a job.

People these days think anyone who has been on TV is a multimillionaire

I don't get the mentality of job shaming. I've almost never been without a job simply because I went out and got a job at gas stations or fast food restaurants or as a cleaner if I was ever out of work. Yeah, none of them were glamorous or going to help "advance my career" or anything, but a job is a job and honest money shouldn't be looked down on.

People are miserable and misery loves company. They think every actor that’s been on a 80s sitcom is just lounging in their Hollywood Hills home off the Tubi streaming commissions 🙄

People convince themselves that stars are elite and don’t suffer. Being rich and famous is a motivator for many people; if they find out that you can work hard make good money and it still not be enough people will be terrified lol

It’s an entertainment industry thing. A person working retail making $50k a year will call an actor making $50k a year a loser because they only work in bit parts on tv or commercials and not marvel movies.

Years ago they were job shaming Gary Coleman (Arnold from Different Strokes) when he got a job as a security guard on a movie set.

The poor guy was not getting any acting jobs. His fame had dwindled in the 1980s. He was born with extremely challenging health problems to begin with. He was effectively disabled, to an extent, because of his size.

And yet the gossip rags were hammering him because he was trying to do an ordinary job.

That’s exactly how healthcare works for all US Americans…you stop working and you lose your healthcare because it is tied to your job. 

The healthcare network is separate and can be accessed at open enrollment and when you lose your healthcare, and cost is based on income. 

Actors are just like us! (Joke)

My high school friend has been an actress for 25 years, and was one of the leads in a very big movie (Ben Affleck was the main character.) She is barely getting by and mostly works as a waitress.

Remember murder, she wrote? Angela Lansbury hired actors older actors, whose insurance was about to run out so that they could re-up their credentials with SAG to extend their insurance.

all of this.

There's a bunch of Top British Actors who are literally aristocrats. That Top Young Actor Everyone's Talking About in Hollywood is almost invariably "their mother was a French model and their father owns a hedge fund (which owns half of Indonesia)"

I have a few actor friends, who book a lot of work. They all have full time jobs - the most fortunate have full time jobs that lets them take a lot of unpaid vacation. Which lets them take 3 weeks off to shoot a feature or whatever, then get right back to work.

I had this (very) brief moment in my life where it looked like I might have been able to make it as a screenwriter. There was just this very, very small issue: I couldn't afford to spend several years working full time for free.* (Though of course I "pivoted" to academia which, would you look at that, kind of requires you to work full time for several years for free, so I pivoted to archives and libraries and then people were say "ah, we see what's holding you back, all you need to do is work several years full time for free.")

I do really miss it, but man, the rent's gotta be paid.

*And by "free" we mean, sure you signed a contract that would pay you ten grand for three month's work writing or cowriting a screenplay or a TV show setting bible, it's just, lol, we can't pay you right now, exactly, but it will open so many doors. Sureeee

Look at RJ Mitte that just passed away, because of some bs contract his manager had him sign, he hardly made anything from breaking bad and that’s a huge show!

A dude from orphan black was one of the regular catering staff at my office. His wife had a kid, steady income and regular hours were the right call.

Redditors aren’t great at the real world. I saw a comment yesterday deriding ALL actors because the poster thought that all actors just do it to be rich and famous.

Like dude actually thinks it’s an easy guarantee to be a millionaire if you decide to try acting.

No, it’s Tiger Woods!

Remember, winners eat at McDonald’s!

SPRINTS SPRINTS 

and he starts every day with a hearty breakfast from McDonald's!

Sprints!!!

He should come out of retirement, we need a QB 😩

I came here to say this. I don’t think there’s got the joke. “I’m loving it”

I'm lovin it

That shirt's tighter than dickskin

Have you met people? Have you worked a customer service job? People literally think you are lesser. Owners literally treat you like a rat

Why would anyone shame dude for making a living?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_discrimination

Geoffrey Owens was in The Pitt, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed and Abbott Elementary this year - all hot shows. Luckily it seems like it turned out okay for him.

it wasn't shaming as much as shock. The person who took the photo never expected they'd see Elvin from the Cosby show picking up shifts at Trader Joes.

That person was still a piece of shit for wrecking the guy's privacy, but I don't think they did it to shame him. just more of a "can you believe this?!" type thing

He also stopped getting residuals because The Cosby Show stopped having reruns or streaming. It's not just that he isn't popular anymore, it's Bill Cosby's fault. That show used to always have reruns on. Between multiple channels you probably could have watched it 24/7.

Trader Joe’s and Costco are the two GOATs from what I’ve read/seen.

TJ's did burn me out eventually and I had to leave, but I wouldn't have taken any other retail job. If things ever get bad I'll definitely return

My old roommate was a manager at Trader Joe's and made more than I did in my 9-5 office job

My step mother works there and loves it.

When a few friends of mine started working in showbiz as support crew they were shocked at the number of well-known acts that took jobs that many would consider beneath them and the answer was always we needed the money for x and a job is a job; and no most of the time is wasn't because said famous person blew their money

Too many people are just losers. I tell everyone that I am a construction worker. Nobody cares. Occasionally someone wants to act like it’s some terrible job (in the circles I run in). But then it’s funny to see the difference in their demeanor once they eventually hear from someone that we own one of the biggest construction firms in the Western world.

I have tremendous respect for anyone working hard and contributing to their family and society at large. It’s mostly by virtue of luck and circumstances outside of our control that we end up where we are. Anyone who forgets that needs to do some serious introspection.

To be fair, isn’t this kind of an example of society actually getting it right - at least in the end?

For years, I've had relatives try to shame me out of my union job because they personally think I could 'do better' than being blue collar.

Some people are just insufferable.

Exactly and I wish him well.

I don’t care who he is, he pays me $500 to rub my feet.

That's not Donovan McNabb, dumbass

That is clearly Tiger Woods

IM LOVIN IT 👐

can I get the check

Thats not...! You know what?! SPRINTS!

Seeing a surprising number of capes

He was also on Abbott Elementary last season.

It's Donovan McNabb

I dont care who it is, he pays me 500 bucks to rub my feet

So cool the gang chose him. Hes so good in sunny

Geoffrey Owen’s seems like a great guy and he was awesome in It’s Always Sunny, gross that someone tried to shame him for working.

Donovan McNabb

No you’re absolutely wrong. This is Donovan McNabb

He responded to the "shame" by posting a very unashamed response that he took the Trader Joe's job for the steady paycheck and benefits, end of story. He never complained.

What would be wrong with using their degree? How's that selling out?

Congratulations you met every stripper ever lol.

Warms my heart. My cousin was a dancer for a decade. She had kids to feed. The father walked out on them. She also went back to school and is doing much better now.

I was much more fortunate than my cousin and I could see how our different paths took us different places.

I have nothing but love for her. She had to do what she had to do to survive. We don't come from money or anything like that.

People love to criticize those who work jobs like this. But we rarely criticize the customers that make these jobs viable.

I promise 100% guaranteed that this woman was a prostitute. Exchanging numbers would have resulted in her attempting to get you to use her services. This is a well known activity for strippers and you should know better.

Congrats, you discovered the stripper sob story. They sit down with you and have you buy drinks so you're more likely to spend money on them, and the sob story guilts you into throwing them some cash. She chose the job, is making more money than any girl her age, and gets free drinks all night. You met a saleswoman buddy