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.
Imagine the gauntlet you would have to walk through to even get to the theater/club. No thanks.
But his was the first comedy album I listened to as a kid. He was a funny guy. In that…he amused me.
Family Guy never misses an opportunity. They were ahead of the curve with Bruce Jenner and Bin Laden.
If this is real, I’m going.
Racist POC POS
Your 85, just live out your last few years quietly.
Standing ovations and sold out houses every night. You're vastly underestimating Boomers devotion to what will be a greatest hits tour ("Novocaine", "Noah", "Children", "Cake for Breakfast"), with a small side of prison life.
The only limit to the tour is how many shows an 85-year-old man can do in a year.
Hell I'd pay extra if he would do the 2009 speech at NAACP DC where he literally made Jesse Jackson so mad Jesse started to cry about being rejected from a Tier 2 school in NYC (and instead got kicked out of Illinois-Chicago and ended up at NC AT&TLOFL). I'd pay double-extra to have Jesse Jackson on stage with Coz and watch him burn Jackson again!
"There is a time, ladies and gentlemen, when we have to turn the mirror around...They are buying things for their kids...$500 sneakers for what? But they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics!..."Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day." It's cursing on the way home, on the bus, train, in the candy store. They are cursing and grabbing each other and going nowhere. The book bag is very, very thin because there's nothing in it...Don't worry about the white man. I could care less about what white people think about me. . . Let them talk. What are they saying that is so different from what their grandfathers said and did to us? What is different is what we are doing to ourselves..."
Cosby should team up with O.J. Simpson & John Hinckley and do a “Violent Felon Comeback Tour.”
They could have Jussie as the warm-up act.
I hear it’s a real snooze fest.
Cosby’s crime ( not the roofies….that’s a given) was telling black dead beat baby daddies to take responsibility for their dishonorable discharges. Had he not done that the real crimes would have been kept quiet.
“his was the first comedy album I listened to as a kid”
Me as well......purchased mail order through the Columbia House record company
Cosby rape police reports predate the me-too movement by many years.
Can’t wait to hear him say, “drinks are on me! “
Likely mine as well.
damn... that’s FU FUnny right there.
with the singers range severly reduced e.g. Geddy Lee, Robert Plant or David Lee Roth
What’s Bill going to tell, date rape jokes?
Young woman who is an aspiring actress:
“Mr. Cosby just invited me to his hotel room to have a special drink and talk to me about his helping me in my career. He said he knows people who can get me an audition to be the next Jennifer Aniston. He’s so kind.”
Whoa.....
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