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Bill Cosby plans 2023 tour
KYW Newsradio ^ | 12/30/2022 | Stephanie Raymond

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.


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To: V_TWIN

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.


21 posted on 12/30/2022 12:43:59 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: dfwgator

Family Guy never misses an opportunity. They were ahead of the curve with Bruce Jenner and Bin Laden.


22 posted on 12/30/2022 12:45:00 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: HighSierra5

“It’s Fat Abbott!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXIeG30Bwo4


23 posted on 12/30/2022 12:47:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If this is real, I’m going.


24 posted on 12/30/2022 12:49:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Dr. Huxtable

Racist POC POS

25 posted on 12/30/2022 12:51:13 PM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Your 85, just live out your last few years quietly.


26 posted on 12/30/2022 12:52:32 PM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: V_TWIN
"3 maybe 4 tour dates and he’ll fold the tent for lack of interest."

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..."

27 posted on 12/30/2022 12:53:37 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Cosby should team up with O.J. Simpson & John Hinckley and do a “Violent Felon Comeback Tour.”


28 posted on 12/30/2022 12:55:10 PM PST by twister881
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To: twister881

They could have Jussie as the warm-up act.


29 posted on 12/30/2022 12:55:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I hear it’s a real snooze fest.


30 posted on 12/30/2022 12:59:18 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
I always believe the accusers.


31 posted on 12/30/2022 1:04:17 PM PST by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

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.


32 posted on 12/30/2022 1:04:21 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Vermont Lt

“his was the first comedy album I listened to as a kid”

Me as well......purchased mail order through the Columbia House record company


33 posted on 12/30/2022 1:05:17 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: lee martell

Cosby rape police reports predate the me-too movement by many years.


34 posted on 12/30/2022 1:08:30 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Can’t wait to hear him say, “drinks are on me! “


35 posted on 12/30/2022 1:11:40 PM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: dfwgator

Likely mine as well.


36 posted on 12/30/2022 1:12:23 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

damn... that’s FU FUnny right there.


37 posted on 12/30/2022 1:15:01 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: dfwgator

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?


38 posted on 12/30/2022 1:17:20 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

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.”


39 posted on 12/30/2022 1:18:07 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna .hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: dfwgator

Whoa.....


40 posted on 12/30/2022 1:18:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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