Posted on 12/30/2022 12:27:16 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan
After several years of being in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Bill Cosby is planning a comeback.
The 85-year-old comedian is looking to make a return to the stage in 2023.
After several years of being in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Bill Cosby is planning a comeback.
The 85-year-old comedian is looking to make a return to the stage in 2023.
During an interview with WGH Talk, Cosby said he's ready to start touring and telling jokes again.
"Yes, because there's so much fun to be had in this storytelling that I do," he said. "Years ago, maybe 10 years ago, I found it was better to say it after I write it."
Cosby's publicist Andrew Wyatt confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the one-time TV star is serious about returning to stand-up comedy -- and soon.
"We're looking at getting back out here around Spring/Summer of 2023," Wyatt said.
The last time Cosby toured was in 2015, months after two dozen women came forward with claims that the comedian sexually assaulted them decades earlier, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In December 2015, he was ultimately arrested and charged with assaulting Andrea Constand, director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team, who initially reported him to authorities in 2005.
Cosby became the first celebrity convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era when a Pennsylvania jury in 2018 found him guilty of drugging and molesting Constand.
Cosby served just shy of three years of a 10-year sentence when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out his conviction and ordered his release in June 2021.
The court pointed to Cosby's Fifth Amendment rights, citing a 2005 agreement with then Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, who declined to file charges at the time. The court said Castor made a deal with Cosby and his defense team that basically stripped Cosby of his rights by forcing him to sit for a deposition in a civil case, implicating himself in the crime. Some of that deposition was the basis for the charges that were ultimately filed against Cosby. The state high court called the situation an "affront to fundamental fairness," saying that Cosby had reason to believe he would never be charged criminally when he sat for the deposition.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's office asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision and reinstate Cosby's conviction, but in March 2022 the court rejected the case, without explanation.
Cosby has denied all allegations against him.
I just don’t see how he can pull it off.
That said, I still watch “Bill Cosby - Himself”, and I don’t apologize for it. It’s a classic.
His best. Hysterical
I suspect people will stay away in droves.
3 maybe 4 tour dates and he’ll fold the tent for lack of interest.
Hey Hey hey.
It’s like seeing the band you grew up listening to, with everybody in their 80s, what’s the point?
I think I’ve still got 5-6 of his comedy albums from when I was a kid. They’re in boxes at the moment due to a recent move or I’d look and verify.
Volunteer from the audience and be part of the show! Females only!
More like who wants to pay hard earned money to see a 85 year old serial rapist.
What venue would host him knowing their would be massive protests and blowback.
My favorite is “The Chicken Heart”...’Hey come over here, I want to show you my dumb kid.’
The Libs today feel free to crash public events they don’t like, confident that the police will most likely either ‘stand down’, be restrained in controlling measures or even if they are arrested, some movie star will pay their bail.
Trump Derangement Syndrome + BLM + Antifa showed us that.
I could be wrong, but the #Me-2 movement taught many people who never thought about Bill Cosby before the scandals that ‘it’s okay’ to rain hate and abuse upon him.
Do women get a discount if they bring their own quaaludes?
Could go either way depending on marketing. If he targets urban black communities he might pull it off since at least 35-40% of that demographic believe in his innocence, or that the victims exaggerated and/or should not have waited so long to come forward.
Flash back on this:
Best of Bill Cosby
A1 Noah: Right! 2:05
A2 Noah: And The Neighbor 1:43
A3 Noah: Me And You, Lord 3:11
A4 Revenge 5:58
A5 The Lone Ranger 0:55
A6 Old Weird Harold 5:12
B1 Driving In San Francisco 3:45
B2 The Apple 1:43
B3 Babies 3:49
B4 The Water Bottle 0:58
B5 Street Football 1:17
B6 Fat Albert 9:05
I was expecting that one
I had never seen it before you posted it awhile back
Isn’t there some kind of insurance policy that must be purchased before a big public performance?
Who pays that insurance, the venue or the performer?
Extra security would need to be hired.
Salman Rushdie got his punishment after 15 years of nothing.
Salman will carry some of those injuries for the rest of his life.
You’re probably correct
And Seth did that even before most of allegations were made public, so it must have been a poorly kept secret in Hollywood for years.
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