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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!.'

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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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Cosby was also sleeping with his mistress all that same time he was going to the Plabyoy parties (go figure)..what is this -goofy celebrity boxing day?
1 posted on 04/21/2003 10:37:44 AM PDT by ewing
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To: mhking
hold muh beer and watch two old has been stars fight!
2 posted on 04/21/2003 10:41:05 AM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
< voice of homer simpson > Mmmmmmmm, playboy mansion < /voice of homer simpson >

I got to school with a girl who used to work there, and I keep working on her to get me in - for scientific purposes, only, of course . . .

3 posted on 04/21/2003 10:42:18 AM PDT by realpatriot71 (legalize freedom!)
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To: ewing
Smothers went down, the book reports, at which point Cosby began shouting 'Come onm I will kick your *ss!.'

That's just the pudding pops talking.

4 posted on 04/21/2003 10:44:43 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: ewing
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.
5 posted on 04/21/2003 10:48:19 AM PDT by katana
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To: ewing
I loved Bill Cosby back in his hard-core, pimping days.

Especially in that movie with him and Sidney Poitier.

6 posted on 04/21/2003 10:50:48 AM PDT by BlkConserv
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To: ewing
Where's the part about Smothers needing 6 Playmates to keep him off of Belafonte? :)
7 posted on 04/21/2003 10:51:10 AM PDT by Search4Truth (Proned to wandering off topic)
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To: Search4Truth
LOL, Belafonta. I meant Cosby.
8 posted on 04/21/2003 10:52:22 AM PDT by Search4Truth (Proned to wandering off topic)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
LOL

Oh that Sugar

9 posted on 04/21/2003 10:52:35 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Semper Gumby - Always flexible)
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To: BlkConserv
There were two: Uptown Saturday Night & Let's Do It Again.

Yeah, I remember when Cosby was baaaad.

10 posted on 04/21/2003 10:54:37 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: ewing
Tommy Smothers, he's on a great career track.

And Bill Cosby...he should have worried more about parenting and being a husband and father and less about Playboy parties.

11 posted on 04/21/2003 10:57:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (The Dems are self-destructing before our eyes, How Great is That !)
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To: ewing
The thought of a washed up punk like Tommy Smothers, who thinks the 60's era dialectic is cutting edge, getting coldcocked is mighty appealing.

I'm just sorry a wacko like Cosby got to be the one to do the smackin.

12 posted on 04/21/2003 11:00:22 AM PDT by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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To: skeeter
Bump for later reading.
13 posted on 04/21/2003 11:03:23 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Boycott Smuckers Jelly ! ! ! ! !)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That's just the pudding pops talking.

LOL!

14 posted on 04/21/2003 11:03:31 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Mr. Avuncular)
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To: ewing
Eat my pudding pops Biatch....
15 posted on 04/21/2003 11:08:03 AM PDT by Blue Scourge (If a man hasn't found something he is willing to die for, he is not fit to live. - MLKjr.)
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To: ewing
Apparently it was a vat of chocolate for da puddin' pops.
16 posted on 04/21/2003 11:11:28 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: 1Old Pro
he should have worried more about parenting and being a husband and father and less about Playboy parties.

This would have been (unless I'm miscounting) before his marriage....

17 posted on 04/21/2003 11:29:03 AM PDT by mhking
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Wow, I wonder if I'm the only person here who likes the Smothers. Some of their old routines were howlingly funny.

"The reason you got the story wrong is because there are no pumas in America."
* long pause *
(meekly) "...well...we accept everyone in America."

18 posted on 04/21/2003 11:29:18 AM PDT by pupdog
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19 posted on 04/21/2003 11:31:41 AM PDT by mhking
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To: ewing
Cosby's wife hates white people.
20 posted on 04/21/2003 11:36:57 AM PDT by garyhope
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