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.
Not sure what you are getting at here.
The “Here.. drink this..” tour?
My hubby highly suspects it’s a railroading of Cosby because he berated blacks at every speech for bad behavior.
I rather think so too.
And it’s hard to believe he didn’t mess with his many co-stars in his huge hit. They defended him.
What I’m saying is if Bill Cosby goes on Tour, it’s very likely he will get his face smashed in.
“My Father Confused Me”
I’ll buy a ticket of he comes thru Charlotte.
Oh yeah, I’d drug their drinks!
Dude, I remember that frame by frame when they asked Coz how he felt as he was coming out a building after being briefed by LAPD, and he simply said, "He was my hero."
No greater tribute.
Well, maybe two Gold Circle tickets will perk them right up! #METOOWOOWHO
Nobody.
But then we will pay to go see the famous comedian Bill Cosby.
The women who tried $100,000,000 !?!
I read all the claims.
ALL of them were not credible !
Shame it took the High Court THREE years to reach their decision !
“ The state high court called the situation an “affront to fundamental fairness,””
“Cosby had reason to believe he would never be charged criminally when he sat for the deposition”
So he was visiting FBI agents...
Although I expect that nobody would care what I think, I could care less about what ever it is that Bill Cosby does with his life. But that’s just me.
Why is the first sentence repeated twice?
Stated once in the original.
Sorry people, but I see what happened as money grubbers going after a man who was in the sights of the same people who were Epsteins friends, went after Trump, and hate America. Whatever happened, is buried under the way they got a conviction.
To me, he is just as innocent as can be compared to Clinton, or the Huma Weiner clan.
Harrahs Club, winter of 1978-79. I saw Cosby at a dinner show, and sat in the front row. My sides, stomach and back hurt from laughing. You got 6 drinks before the show, and nothing was served or cleaned up until he has finished. Awesome..
Temple vs Hofstra...learning to drive a stick shift in San Francisco. Classic!
Biss Cosby on his own, as a comic is about as funny as a social disease. Kingfish on Amos N Andy, Redd Foxx they were funny. And a few more. Cosby is about funny as a funeral.
Back stage passes are going to be a tough sell.
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