Posted on 07/23/2025 8:22:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Bill Cosby said that when he learned of the death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played his son on "The Cosby Show," he spoke with Phylicia Rashad, who played the mother.
"We were embracing each other over the phone about a dearly beloved friend ... Malcolm was always embracing relationships with everybody he worked with," Cosby told "CBS Weekend News" anchor Jericka Duncan in an interview.
Warner's death shocked the entertainment world Monday when it became known that the performer drowned in Costa Rica the day before during a family vacation. The 54-year-old was apparently pulled out to sea by a current off the Central American nation's Caribbean coast and he couldn't be revived onshore, officials said.
A spokesperson for Cosby said in a statement that the 88-year-old former actor was devastated when he found out Warner had died. Cosby compared learning the news to when he was told that his son Ennis was killed in 1997, according to spokesperson Andrew Wyatt. "It felt the same way," Wyatt said.
Cosby told Duncan he last spoke with Warner about three months ago, discussing Warner's music career. In 2015, Warner, with the Robert Glasper Experiment and Lalah Hathaway, won the Grammy for best traditional R&B performance with a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Jesus Children of America." Warner was also nominated for best spoken word poetry album at the 2023 Grammys.
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You can’t fight through riptides. no way.
You can swim out of them if you don’t panic. They don’t go on forever, and are limited in their width, so swimming parallel to the beach is the recommended escape. And just a by the way, surfers love rips because it gets them back out in the breaks with minimal effort.
What is being promoted as “black entertainment” is often openly far worse than anything Cosby was ever accused of doing. It promotes rape, slavery, torture, and murder.
I blame “Black Acting School”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASZ6K9cPNk
We had all his albums when I was a kid.
I have many fond memories of me and my brothers listening to them in our bedroom laughing our young butts off.
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Personally I think Cosby got taken to the cleaners by a pack of grifters.
At the time I knew some girls/women who liked to get “Quawsy” as they called it when they went out on the town.
“I was a fan of Bill Cosby in his heyday of the 60s and 70s.”
Me, too, and I had some of his albums. Like Seinfeld and Office Space, he left is with some good quotes, e.g., “What’s a cubit?”
How long can you tread water?
If women are there he’ll bring his bag of pills encase the odds are good.
Oh yeah; that one, too. LOL!!
I remember something like:
“Tweeeelve degrees.”
“Come on in, Sheldon. The water’s fine.”
wow- glad ya made it out- scary stuff- we grew up on ocean so we knew what to try if we got caught- thankfully never had to deal with it-
Something no later generations will ever experience. It was indeed a good time to be alive.
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