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Bill Cosby Punch Smothers Tommy Smothers (Family TV Icon Decks Folk Singer over Civil Rights Slur)
New York Post ^ | April 20, 2003 | Richard Johnson

Posted on 04/21/2003 10:37:43 AM PDT by ewing

Bill Cosby wasn't always the affable family man that he plays on television.

Angered by taunts that he didn't do enough in the civil rights struggle, Cosby once sucker punched Tommy Smothers according to Gerald Nachmans new book.

Smothers recalls Cosby told him, 'Maybe I will give you a knock upside the head one of these days. I said, 'Yeah, go ahead and give it a try.'

A few weeks later Cosby made good on his threat when the two ran into each other at one of Hugh Hefners Playboy Mansion parties.

'I should have never turned my back on him,' Smothers said. 'He didn't have the b*lls to do it when I was looking.'

'He slipped behind Hugh Hefner and sucker punched me. He hit me right in the head with his fist.'

Smothers went down, the book reports, at which point Cosby began shouting 'Come onm I will kick your *ss!.'

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billcosby; cosby; jello; playboymansion; realliberals; smothersbrothers
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To: ewing
Bill Cosby sucker punching Tommy Smothers = hate crime?
61 posted on 04/21/2003 4:08:59 PM PDT by judgeandjury (The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.)
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To: Doc Savage
It must have been a gift.

"His doctoral thesis was about the effect of his animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (for which Bill did many of the voices himself) on children." google

yitbos

62 posted on 04/21/2003 4:19:19 PM PDT by bruinbirdman (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: All
sounds like "sins of the father" should've been about ennis and bill.

bill cosby a class act? puh-lease, i've downloaded his stuff and since DELETED it.

that guy got canned, quota laughs.

this is just a story of a confrontation between to cowardly, wimpy, failed fathers.

the joke's on bill, now. saw his crusty mug on the front of a book in the humour section at the book store the other day. he looked worse than anemic. i laughed that he even put out a book.

63 posted on 04/21/2003 4:27:02 PM PDT by 666beast
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To: IncPen
rofl!

too funny
64 posted on 04/21/2003 5:17:45 PM PDT by visualops (This tagline was freed from an Iraqi prison by U.S. Armed Forces.)
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To: pupdog
Tommy Smothers would have to kill a bunch of kids to make me stop being a huge fan. I know he's a wise ass lefty, but he's just so damn funny. Or at least he used to be. He used to come on the old Tonight Show once in a while and say absolutely outrageous things. I think he once called somebody a "homo" and maybe even got sued.

I love listening to the old Smothers Brothers songs and routines.

'course, I love Bill Cosby also.
65 posted on 04/21/2003 5:18:33 PM PDT by zook
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To: sauropod
I am so glad you said that!

Bill and Camille Crosby (especially her) are two of the meanest people on the face of this earth.

They epitomize the word "racist."
66 posted on 04/21/2003 5:21:42 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: zook
Oh, and speaking of Cosby, go back and watch that film of his where he's just doing his stand up act (I can't remember the name offhand). There's a really eerie moment when he's talking about his son (then a little boy) and he bellows out "SOMEBODY'S GOING TO KILL THAT BOY!"
67 posted on 04/21/2003 5:23:12 PM PDT by zook
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To: pupdog
"Daniel Boone was a trailer and a tractor..."
68 posted on 04/21/2003 5:25:24 PM PDT by zook
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To: Howlin
"Bill and Camille Crosby (especially her) are two of the meanest people on the face of this earth.'

Originaly being from NYC, I knew several people who had regular contact with entertainers. They all said there were two SOB's that stood out WAY above all others:

-Bill Cosby
-Bob Hope

I also said "Bob Hope!"...but heard from several that he was THE WORST!

69 posted on 04/21/2003 5:26:16 PM PDT by NewLand
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To: katana
I've always really liked Bill Cosby and now that I've found out that he cold cocked one of the Smothers Brothers, I like him even more. Wish they had that on film cause I've wanted to deck either one of those self-important leftist pr***s since, oh, around 1968.

The Smothers have NOT changed, and they're very negative about Pres Bush. Nice to hear that Cosby hit him.

70 posted on 04/21/2003 5:28:54 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: zook
GOD, I bet you even liked their routine when Tommy accused his mother of liking Dickie best, never in the history of entertainment was there two more boring people, and now their back pulling all their old routine's out trying to revive their fan base to get out their and support all the leftie ideals. What a bunch of sicko's
71 posted on 04/21/2003 5:29:03 PM PDT by cabbieguy (eye suport publik edukashun)
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To: cabbieguy
"GOD, I bet you even liked their routine when Tommy accused his mother of liking Dickie best"

"GOD, I loved it. Listening to their routines gave me some of the funniest, most "laughingest" moments of my childhood. I still play their stuff today for my 8 year old daughter, who loves them just as much as I did. Now, on the other hand, my parents couldn't stand them.
72 posted on 04/21/2003 5:35:08 PM PDT by zook
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To: ewing
Years and years and years ago I bought my son a LP of Cosby reciting his encounter with Carol Shelby and his new Cobra. "It was killing people and it was idling" He did the sound effects himself. God I wish I had a copy of that recording...
73 posted on 04/21/2003 5:40:03 PM PDT by tubebender (?)
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To: zook
sounds like the gene pool got tainted
74 posted on 04/21/2003 6:03:51 PM PDT by cabbieguy (eye suport publik edukashun)
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To: cabbieguy
I'll assume that's a joke. I'd hate to assume you were an ass.
75 posted on 04/21/2003 6:08:50 PM PDT by zook
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To: NewLand
It's sort of sad to hear that about Bob Hope, since he's done so much for the deployed troops over the years. I'm not at all surprised about Camille Cosby, however. The USA Today Op-Ed piece written after the death of son Ennis was an extremely vicious attack on (White) America.

-Regards, T.
76 posted on 04/21/2003 6:12:03 PM PDT by T Lady (.Freed From the Dimocratic Shackles since 1992)
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To: bruinbirdman
Ok....
You're driving me crazy.

Even after "googling" it, I still can't figure out what yitbos mean.

77 posted on 04/21/2003 6:45:16 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: ewing
Ah, the real reason Nachman is "sick": Cosby must have found out what was in the book a head of time.

The doctors are still trying to figure out how to get Cosby's arm extricated from Nachman's bountiful flesh...

78 posted on 04/21/2003 7:20:32 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: zook
Yeah, just my weird sense of humor, hopefully funnier than your idols. Have a wonderfull time watching all the HOOTENANNY reruns.
79 posted on 04/21/2003 7:31:34 PM PDT by cabbieguy (eye suport publik edukashun)
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To: bruinbirdman
"That's Dr. Cosby to you."

Like everything else about the odious race hustler, Cosby's doctoral degree is fraudulent. See, "EDUCATION'S SMOKING GUN-- How Teachers Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America." By, Reginald G. Damerell. 1985

80 posted on 04/21/2003 8:27:10 PM PDT by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.)
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