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Earle Hyman Earle Hyman (October 11, 1926 – November 17, 2017) was an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is known for his role on "ThunderCats" as the voice of Panthro and various other characters. He also appeared on "The Cosby Show" as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable. Hyman was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, as George Earle Plummer according to the North Carolina Birth Index. He is believed to have been of Native American ancestry. His parents, Zachariah Hyman (Tuscarora/Meherrin) and Maria Lilly Plummer (Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway), moved their family to Brooklyn, New York in the late 1920s, where Hyman
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TV-movie "I Spy Returns" (1994), and "The Cosby Mysteries" (1994). In the mid-1990s, he appeared as a detective in black-and-white film noir-themed commercials for Turner Classic Movies. He made appearances in three more films: "Ghost Dad" (1990), "The Meteor Man" (1993), and "Jack" (1996). In addition, he was interviewed in Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" (1997), a documentary about the 1963 racist bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama. Also in 1996, he started up a new show for CBS, "Cosby", again co-starring Phylicia Rashād, his onscreen wife on "The Cosby Show". Cosby co-produced the show for Carsey-Werner Productions. It
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The New Bill Cosby Show The New Bill Cosby Show is an American variety television series aired in the United States by CBS as part of its 1972–73 lineup. "The New Bill Cosby Show" was an attempt to exploit the widespread popularity of Bill Cosby, who had previously starred in an eponymous sitcom and the drama (with comedic undertones) "I Spy" and who had been responsible for several of the best-selling comedy albums of the 1960s. Cosby's supporting cast was biracial, highlighted by Foster Brooks of "funny-drunk" routine fame and also included performer Lola Falana, who additionally served as the
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she attended Park School. In 1989, Raven-Symoné auditioned for a role in the Bill Cosby movie, "Ghost Dad". At the age of three, she was considered too young for the role, but Cosby liked her so much that he found a role for her on his show, "The Cosby Show", as his step-granddaughter Olivia. She made her debut in the premiere episode of the show's sixth season, and remained until the series finale in 1992. She then appeared as the younger version of Halle Berry's starring character, a headstrong biracial slave, in the TV movie "", based on the book
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being picked up on the CBN Cable Network. In 2013, reruns of this series began being broadcast on the ASPIRE Television Network and Soul of the South Network. In July 2015, both networks ceased airing the series following accusations of sexual assaults made against Cosby. Shout! Factory has released both seasons of "The Bill Cosby Show" on DVD in Region 1. Mill Creek Entertainment released a ten episode best of set entitled "The Bill Cosby Show – The Best of Season 1" on March 22, 2011. The Bill Cosby Show The Bill Cosby Show is an American sitcom that aired
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The Bill Cosby Show The Bill Cosby Show is an American sitcom that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday night schedule from 1969 until 1971, under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble. There were 52 episodes made in the series. It marked Bill Cosby's first solo foray in television, after his co starring role with Robert Culp in "I Spy". The series also marked the first time an African American starred in his or her own eponymous comedy series. In this droll, light-hearted sitcom, Cosby played the role of Chet Kincaid, a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles
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The Cosby Mysteries The Cosby Mysteries is an American television mystery series that starred Bill Cosby. It is the first television series to star Cosby since "The Cosby Show" (which ended in the spring of 1992) and lasted one season (1994–1995). Actor/comedian Mos Def appeared in several episodes (credited as Dante Bezé). Cosby played Guy Hanks, a New York City Police Department criminalist who retired from the force after winning $44 million in the lottery. His peaceful retirement was frequently interrupted by his former colleagues, Detective Adam Sully (James Naughton) and Medical Examiner John Chapman (Robert Stanton), who ask him
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Ghost Dad Ghost Dad is a 1990 American fantasy comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring Bill Cosby, in which a widower's spirit is able to communicate with his children after his death. It was critically panned, and wound up on many critics' "worst of 1990" and "worst of all time" lists. The film remains Sidney Poitier's last directorial effort to date. Elliot Hopper (Bill Cosby) is a workaholic widower who is about to land the deal of a lifetime at work, which he hopes will win him a promotion and a company car. After he forgets his daughter
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Warner, who played Cosby's son Theo on "The Cosby Show", stated when asked about Cosby's state of mind since Cosby was charged with sexual assault on December 30, Warner was reluctant to divulge details of their personal conversations. "He's doing alright. That part I really don't feel comfortable talking about because we've always had a close personal relationship," Warner said. "He's always been very, very good to me. Our personal conversations I tend to keep personal." In 2014, Camille Cosby, who married Cosby in 1964 when she was 19, released a statement supporting her husband, describing him as a victim
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Ms. Rashad without flashing on Clair". At the 42nd NAACP Image Awards in 2010, the organization dubbed Rashad "mother" of the African-American community. Rashad and Cosby's professional relationship continued beyond "The Cosby Show". After "The Cosby Show"'s conclusion, Rashad would similarly portray Cosby's wife, Ruth Lucas, on his sitcom "Cosby" for four years. Cosby would again recruit Rashad to voice Little Bill Glover's mother, Brenda Glover, in Cosby's animated series "Little Bill". In 2016, "Esquire" included Rashad on their list of "75 Greatest Women of All Time" for portraying "the perfect mother". Clair Huxtable Clair Olivia Hanks Huxtable is a
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based on ideas that Cosby suggested while in meetings with the writing staff. The show had parallels to Cosby's actual family life: like the characters Cliff and Clair Huxtable, Cosby and his wife Camille were college educated and financially successful, and they had five children. On the show, Cosby played the role of an obstetrician. Much of the material from the pilot and first season of "The Cosby Show" was taken from his video "", released in 1983. The series was an immediate success, debuting near the top of the ratings and staying there for most of its eight-season run.
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He created that. He created the whole idea of taking a quote-unquote 'comic' and developing a TV show just from a persona that you see on stage." Comedian Larry Wilmore also saw a connection between "Bill Cosby: Himself" and the later success of "The Cosby Show", saying: "It's clear that the concert is the template for "The Cosby Show"." Cosby performed his first TV stand-up special in 30 years, "Bill Cosby: Far From Finished", on Comedy Central on November 23, 2013. His last show of the "Far From Finished" tour was performed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in
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live-action feature film centering on the popular Fat Albert character from his 1970s cartoon series. "Fat Albert" was released in theaters in December 2004. In May 2007, Cosby spoke at the commencement of High Point University. In the summer of 2009, Cosby hosted a comedy gala at Montreal's "Just for Laughs", the largest comedy festival in the world. A new NBC show scheduled for 2015, created by Mike O'Malley and Mike Sikowitz and to have been produced by "The Cosby Show"'s Tom Werner, was set to feature Cosby as Jonathan Franklin, the patriarch of a multi-generational family. On November 19,
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motion pictures. CSC hired Artie Mogull as President of the label. Tetragrammaton was fairly active during 1968–69 (its most successful signing was British heavy rock band Deep Purple) but it quickly went into the red and ceased trading during the 1970s. Cosby pursued a variety of additional television projects and appeared as a regular guest host on "The Tonight Show" and as the star of an annual special for NBC. In 1969, he returned with another series, "The Bill Cosby Show", a situation comedy that ran for two seasons. Cosby played a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles high
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As of 2011, the following Carsey-Werner series have been released on DVD: Several Carsey-Werner shows were made available on Netflix's Watch Instantly beginning in February 2011, including "Roseanne", "That 70's Show", "The Cosby Show", & "3rd Rock from the Sun". However, in February 2012, "Roseanne", "The Cosby Show" and "3rd Rock from the Sun" were taken off instant streaming. Since then, selections of "Roseanne" and all of "3rd Rock from the Sun" have been added back. In 2017 Carsey-Werner sued the BBC over possible copyright infringement for using audiovisual clips from "The Cosby Show" in a documentary called "Bill Cosby
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for "The Cosby Show" by series creator, comedian Bill Cosby. Cosby originally pitched a series about a detective who solves crime using his wit and humor; Clair's earliest incarnation resembled his character's girlfriend, who is depicted as "a strong woman with her own career." Networks were not interested in developing the series, so Cosby opted for a somewhat more autobiographical approach instead. Cosby eventually based "The Cosby Show" on his stand-up comedy film "" (1983), which heavily features jokes about his relationship with his wife and their interactions with their children. Clair is based on Cosby's real-life wife Camille. Although
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at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For the PBS series "The Electric Company", Cosby recorded several segments teaching reading skills to young children. When Cosby was about 35 years old in 1972, he received an MA from UMass Amherst and was also back in prime time with a variety series, "The New Bill Cosby Show". However, this show lasted only a season. More successful was a Saturday-morning cartoon, "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids", hosted by Cosby and based on his own childhood. That series ran from 1972 to 1979, and as "The New Fat Albert Show" in 1979, and
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hired Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby to be their respective replacements. As part of the publicity for the movie, a "Ghost Dad" novelization written by Mel Cebulash was released the year of the film's debut. The film received widespread negative reviews, with a 7% rating on film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews. The consensus states: "A startlingly misconceived effort from director Sidney Poitier and star Bill Cosby, "Ghost Dad" is a listless, glacially-paced comedy that's alternately schmaltzy and incomprehensible." Rating the movie half a star out of four, "Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert characterized the
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Bill Cosby William Henry Cosby Jr. (; born July 12, 1937) is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender. Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the hungry i in San Francisco during the 1960s. He then landed a starring role in the television show "I Spy", followed by his own sitcom "The Bill Cosby Show", which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971. In 1972, using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"
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Bill Cosby: Himself Bill Cosby: Himself is a 1983 stand-up comedy film featuring Bill Cosby. Filmed before a live audience at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, Ontario, Cosby gives the audience his views ranging from marriage to parenthood. The film also showcases Cosby's trademark conversational style of stand up comedy. For most of the performance, Cosby is seated at the centre of the stage, only getting up to emphasise a joke. Many of the comedic routines presented in the film were precursors to Cosby's successful sitcom, "The Cosby Show". An album of the same name was also released on
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school. While only a modest critical success, the show was a ratings hit, finishing eleventh in its first season. Cosby was lauded for using African-American performers such as Lillian Randolph, Moms Mabley, and Rex Ingram as characters. According to commentary on the Season 1 DVDs for the show, Cosby was at odds with NBC over his refusal to include a laugh track in the show, as he felt that viewers had the ability to find humor for themselves when watching a TV show. After "The Bill Cosby Show" left the air, Cosby resumed his formal education. He began graduate work
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Cosby replied "Mrs. Cosby." In November 2014, former NBC facilities manager Frank Scotti told the "New York Daily News" that while working on "The Cosby Show", Cosby funneled regular payments to several women via money orders that Scotti was told to purchase in his own name. Among the women identified in receipts that Scotti preserved for more than 20 years were Shawn Thompson, Cosby's admitted mistress who later accused him of fathering her child, and Angela Leslie, who claimed Cosby made unwanted sexual advances toward her in the early 1990s. Scotti "suspected that [Cosby] was having sex with them." He
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The Cosby Show The Cosby Show was an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. "The Cosby Show" spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. "The Cosby Show" and "All in the Family" are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20. According to
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by Bill Cosby for a character from "The Cosby Show", "A Different World" had many connections to its parent program, even before the latter program was created. The third season finale of "The Cosby Show", entitled "Hillman", was essentially a pilot episode for the new show. The theme song was co-written by Stu Gardner, Bill Cosby, and Dawnn Lewis – who was also a cast member. In the online interviews related to the 2006 "Hillman College Reunion," Lewis revealed that her being approached to write the song and to audition were two separate events that occurred within a short time
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expressed hope that "The Cosby Mysteries" would fare better than Cosby's previous two ventures, "Here and Now" and the game-show remake, "You Bet Your Life". "The Cosby Mysteries" only lasted 18 episodes. "The Cosby Mysteries" has been re-run in the United Kingdom on digital channel ITV1, and in the US on A&E, Starz! Mystery and TVOne. The Cosby Mysteries The Cosby Mysteries is an American television mystery series that starred Bill Cosby. It is the first television series to star Cosby since "The Cosby Show" (which ended in the spring of 1992) and lasted one season (1994–1995). Actor/comedian Mos Def
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(portrayed by Roscoe Lee Brown), an expert pinochle player who also happened to be his and Clair's literary professor at Hillman College. Bill Cosby's role as Cliff Huxtable has had a mostly positive reception from critics. Cliff Huxtable Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show". He was portrayed by Bill Cosby. Cosby originally proposed that the couple should both have blue-collar jobs, with the father a limousine driver, who owned his own car, and the mother an electrician but, with advice from his wife, Camille Cosby, the concept was changed so that
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episode each of "I Spy" and "The Bill Cosby Show", both of which starred Bill Cosby, who used his influence to land him the roles. Shortly after filming a guest spot on "The Bill Cosby Show", Ingram died of a heart attack at the age of 73. He was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California. Rex Ingram (actor) Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Ingram was born near Cairo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River; his father was a steamer fireman on the riverboat "Robert E.
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in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. Cosby hosted the Los Angeles Playboy Jazz Festival from 1979 to 2012 (George Lopez has hosted the event since then). Known as a jazz drummer, he can also be seen playing bass guitar with Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. on Hugh Hefner's 1970s talk show. His story, "The Regular Way", was featured in "Playboy"s December 1968 issue. Cosby has become an active member of The Jazz Foundation of America. Cosby became involved with the foundation in 2004. For several years, he has been a featured host for its annual benefit, A Great Night
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article also paints an appealing portrait of the director's relationship with Bill Cosby, who preferred Sandrich, who directed 100 episodes of "The Cosby Show" from 1985 to 1992, the series' last season, as the director of choice of the series, and with other Cosby production personnel, quoting co-executive producer Tom Werner on the show's dynamics: ""Although we're really all here to service Bill Cosby's vision, the show is stronger because Jay challenges Bill and pushes him when appropriate."" Sandrich was proud of the program's pioneering portrayal of an upper-class Black family, and of its civilized view of parent-child relations. Jay
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Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976) is a musical comedy album by Bill Cosby. For nine years, Cosby released at least an album a year since 1964. After a three-year hiatus, this was his first comedy album since 1973's "Fat Albert", and he wouldn't return to a full-fledged stand-up album again until "My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do?". This is also his first album on Capitol Records. In this, his sixth musical album release (counting the 1971 instrumental jazz/funk album "Badfoot Brown & the Bunions
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Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976) is a musical comedy album by Bill Cosby. For nine years, Cosby released at least an album a year since 1964. After a three-year hiatus, this was his first comedy album since 1973's "Fat Albert", and he wouldn't return to a full-fledged stand-up album again until "My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do?". This is also his first album on Capitol Records. In this, his sixth musical album release (counting the 1971 instrumental jazz/funk album "Badfoot Brown & the Bunions
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also noted that Cosby "was covering himself by having my name on [the money orders]. It was a coverup." Scotti also claimed that Cosby regularly took aspiring models and actresses into his dressing room and instructed Scotti, "Stand outside the door and don't let anyone in." In a later interview for "NBC"'s "Today Show", Scotti said he "felt like a pimp." Cosby's lawyer Martin Singer denied Scotti's accusations and said the walker-bound 90-year-old was merely seeking "his 15 minutes of fame." In the 2005 deposition that was made public in July 2015, Cosby admitted to making regular payments to Therese
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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985 (with new episodes being produced sporadically during that time frame). The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Fat Albert (known for his catchphrase "Hey hey hey!"), and his friends. The show features an educational
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"TV Guide", the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes." "TV Guide" also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad". In May 1992, "Entertainment Weekly" stated that "The Cosby Show" helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African-American cast, from "In Living Color" to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air". "The Cosby Show" was based on comedy routines in Cosby's stand-up act, which in turn were based on his family
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Cosby Cosby is an American sitcom television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996, until April 28, 2000. The program starred Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad, who had previously worked together in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show". Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999. The series is loosely based on the British sitcom "One Foot in the Grave" airing on BBC from 1990 until 2001. This was also the second and final sitcom that Madeline Kahn made for The Carsey-Werner Company, her first being "Oh Madeline" (based on the British sitcom "Pig in
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about the artists, not a tribute to the embattled comedian. The critically panned show, which had been planned since 2012 and partly underwritten by $716,000 in tax-deductible donations to the museum by Bill and Camille Cosby (who sits on the NMAA's board), is titled "Conversations" and includes 62 works lent by the couple. It ran until January 24, 2016. On July 20, 2015, it was announced that Cosby would no longer appear in the upcoming documentary "Painted Down", about the history of African American stuntmen in film and television. Cosby is credited with helping to create the Black Stuntmen's Association
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film "Angel Heart", which contained graphic sexual scenes with actor Mickey Rourke. Bill Cosby strongly disapproved of Bonet appearing in the film, but she was allowed to retain her role on "A Different World" until returning to "The Cosby Show" after her pregnancy. Tensions remained, however, and Bonet was eventually fired from the show in April 1991. The show's theme music, "Kiss Me", was composed by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby. Seven versions of this theme were used during the run of the series, making it one of the few television series to use multiple versions of the same theme
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centered on Cosby as Hilton Lucas, an iconoclastic senior citizen who tries to find a new job after being downsized and, in the meantime, gets on his wife's nerves. Madeline Kahn co-starred as Rashād's goofy business partner Pauline. Cosby was hired by CBS to be the official spokesman of its Detroit affiliate WWJ-TV during an advertising campaign from 1995 to 1998. Cosby also hosted a CBS special, "Kids Say the Darndest Things" on February 6, 1995, which was followed after as a full season show, with Cosby as host, from January 9, 1998, to June 23, 2000. After four seasons,
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In 1987, Cosby attempted to return to film with the spy spoof "Leonard Part 6". Although Cosby himself was the producer and wrote the story, he realized during production that the film was not going to be what he wanted and publicly denounced it, warning audiences to stay away. Later in the 1980s, Cosby served as an advisor to the Los Angeles Student Film Institute. After "The Cosby Show" went off the air in 1992, Cosby embarked on a number of other projects, which included a revival of the classic Groucho Marx game show "You Bet Your Life" (1992–93), the
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University of Notre Dame, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wesleyan University, and West Chester University. On November 17, 2014, Netflix postponed a Cosby stand-up comedy special after accusations surfaced that Cosby had sexually assaulted Janice Dickinson in 1982. Reruns of "The Cosby Show" and other shows associated with Cosby have also been canceled. On November 19, 2014, TV Land and NBC both ended their relationships with Cosby: TV Land announced that it was pulling reruns from its schedule and also removing clips of the show from its
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Sabrina Le Beauf Sabrina Marie Le Beauf (born March 21, 1958) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sondra Huxtable on the NBC situation comedy "The Cosby Show". She has voiced the character Norma Bindlebeep on the Nick at Nite animated series "Fatherhood", a show based on Bill Cosby's book of the same name. Le Beauf was cast as the eldest Huxtable daughter Sondra on "The Cosby Show" despite being only 10 years younger than Phylicia Rashad, the actress who played her mother, Clair Huxtable. Pop singer Whitney Houston also auditioned for the same part, but Le
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"[punished] by the powers-that-be for [his] attempts to buy NBC in the 1990s." Page wrote that the conspiracy doesn't explain why the conspirators waited so long to bring forth the accusations, with the scandal unfolding many years after Cosby abandoned the purchase. Dick Gregory was a supporter of this theory. Two notable people who had previously defended Cosby, and believed in his innocence, changed their minds. American actress and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg and Joseph C. Phillips (a "Cosby Show" regular for three years) each made public statements on July 15, 2015. Goldberg said, "If this is to be
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said Cosby "represents comfort, and people trust him". In 2014, one educator asked for comment said he remembered Cosby as a "black male authority figure, one of those people who folks that don't live on the edges of the country think of as a good black guy; they trust that guy". In 1988, a representative for Kodak said Cosby had become "synonymous with quality products and quality services". "Ebony" agreed, saying Cosby has the advantage of being able to be selective. Cosby said his belief in their product is an attribute, stating, "if I presented a Bill Cosby who didn't
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skinned and not resembling the other cast members. Sondra Huxtable Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux is a fictional character from the 1980s television series, "The Cosby Show". Sondra Huxtable did not originally appear in the pilot episode of the show. Sondra was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child (e.g. a college graduate). Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable. Sabrina LeBeauf almost missed out on the role because she is only 10 years younger (b. 1958) than Phylicia Rashad (b. 1948), who played her mother in the series. The
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Sondra Huxtable Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux is a fictional character from the 1980s television series, "The Cosby Show". Sondra Huxtable did not originally appear in the pilot episode of the show. Sondra was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child (e.g. a college graduate). Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable. Sabrina LeBeauf almost missed out on the role because she is only 10 years younger (b. 1958) than Phylicia Rashad (b. 1948), who played her mother in the series. The character had been criticized for being too light
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to 2000. That year, Cosby asked Rashad to work on his animated television series "Little Bill", in which the actress voiced Bill's mother, Brenda, until the show's end in 2004. She also played a role in the pre-show of the Dinosaur ride at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park as Dr. Helen Marsh, the head of the Dino Institute. Rashad played "Kill Moves" wealthy mother on "Everybody Hates Chris" on December 9, 2007. In 2007 she appeared as Winnie Guster in the Psych episode "Gus's Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy". She returned to the role in 2008,
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Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show". The show, which ran from 1984 to 1992, starred Bill Cosby as obstetrician Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, and focused on their life with their five children. In 1985, Rashad co-hosted the NBC telecast of the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" with Pat Sajak and Bert Convy. When Cosby returned to TV comedy in 1996 with CBS's "Cosby", he called Rashad to play Ruth Lucas, his character's wife. The pilot episode had been shot with Telma Hopkins, but Cosby then fired the executive producer and replaced Hopkins with Rashad. The sitcom ran from 1996
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the respondents' minds. After numerous women came forward as victims of Cosby's alleged actions, a television special and a series in development were cancelled. Cosby refused to address the situation; his lawyer said such actions would dignify "decade-old, discredited" allegations. Many media outlets commented on the way such actions clashed with his image as "America's Dad". One of the accusers felt nobody would believe her claims at the time of the alleged incident, given Cosby's status in advertising. Joan Tarshis told the media that Cosby was "Mr America; Mr Jello, as I called him". The publicity surrounding the allegations had
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Malcolm X and jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. At the age of nine, he demonstrated an interest in show business which led to enrollment in acting schools. His career as a child performer later led him to graduate high school from The Professional Children's School in New York City, New York. With appearances and roles on many television shows and films, he landed his most successful role as Theo Huxtable, the only son of Heathcliff Huxtable, who was played by Bill Cosby on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show" from 1984 to 1992. Warner auditioned for the role on the very
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when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child (i.e., a college graduate). Bill Cosby originally wanted Vanessa L. Williams to play the part of "Sondra" due to her college education and background in theater arts. However, Williams was recently crowned the first black Miss America and pageant officials would not permit her to play, the Cosby Show role, while she was representing the Miss America pageant. Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable. Houston, however, was unable to commit to the full-time television production schedule in the NBC contract, as
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"For Once in My Life". Cosby received a writing credit for Bill Cosby's hit "Little Ole Man", a revamped version of "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" -- but Henry Cosby and Bill Cosby were not related. Cosby co-wrote and co-produced "The Tears of a Clown", a #1 hit for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. He was also a prominent member of Motown's Funk Brothers studio band. He was a member of the jazz group, the Joe Hunter band, that was the precursor for the Motown studio session band. He played in various jazz clubs, as well as on records for different labels
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release that." Bill Cosby 77 Bill Cosby 77 is an unreleased 2014 stand-up comedy film featuring Bill Cosby, filmed before a live audience at the San Francisco Jazz Center in California. Cosby chose the venue in honor of his friend Enrico Banducci and his establishment the hungry i. The comedian said his wife Camille Cosby helped with the editing process of the film. Around sixty minutes in duration, the film features Cosby pontificating on matters of children, romance, and matrimony. The film was named because was taped on Cosby's 77th birthday on July 12, 2014. Cosby chose Netflix to release
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Bill Cosby 77 Bill Cosby 77 is an unreleased 2014 stand-up comedy film featuring Bill Cosby, filmed before a live audience at the San Francisco Jazz Center in California. Cosby chose the venue in honor of his friend Enrico Banducci and his establishment the hungry i. The comedian said his wife Camille Cosby helped with the editing process of the film. Around sixty minutes in duration, the film features Cosby pontificating on matters of children, romance, and matrimony. The film was named because was taped on Cosby's 77th birthday on July 12, 2014. Cosby chose Netflix to release the performance
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Varnette Honeywood Varnette Patricia Honeywood (December 27, 1950 – September 12, 2010) was an American painter, writer, and businesswoman whose paintings and collages depicting African-American life hung on walls in interior settings for "The Cosby Show" after Camille and Bill Cosby had seen her art and started collecting some of her works. Her paintings also appeared on television on the "Cosby Show" spin-off "A Different World", as well as on the TV series "Amen" and "227". Honeywood was born on December 27, 1950, in Los Angeles. Her parents, Stepney and Lovie Honeywood, were elementary school teachers who had come to
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1963, he received national exposure on NBC's "The Tonight Show". This led to a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, who, in 1964, released his debut LP "Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right!", the first of a series of comedy albums. His album "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With" was number one on "Spin" magazine's list of "The 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time", calling it "stand-up comedy's masterpiece". While many comics of the time were using the growing freedom of that decade to explore material that was controversial and sometimes risqué, Cosby was making his
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Ole Man" which combined a comedic monologue with Stevie Wonder's "Uptight, Everything's Alright". (Note that "Uptight" co-author Henry Cosby is no relation to Bill Cosby.) Also included is an original song credited to Bill Cosby, "Don'cha Know". "Little Ole Man" became a major hit upon release as a single, attaining gold record status for selling one million copies in the United States and reaching #4 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (1967) is the sixth album by Bill Cosby. This was Cosby's first album that was recorded in the studio,
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the Saturday morning cartoons. In 1979, the show was re-titled The New Fat Albert Show and featured a new segment titled "The Brown Hornet" detailing the adventures of an African-American crime fighter in outer space whose design resembled a caricature of Bill Cosby, who also performed vocal talents on the character. In 1984, the show was syndicated and renamed The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The lack of network restrictions allowed the producer to delve into more mature subject matter. A notable episode ("Busted") featured the kids having an inadvertent brush with the law and given a
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DRAMATIC MOTION PICTURE Dustin Hoffman FAVORITE FEMALE TV PERFORMER Phylicia Rashad FAVORITE MALE PERFORMER IN A NEW TV SERIES John Goodman FAVORITE NEW TV DRAMATIC PROGRAM "China Beach" FAVORITE ALL-AROUND MALE STAR Bill Cosby FAVORITE ACTRESS IN A COMEDY MOTION PICTURE Bette Midler FAVORITE MALE TV PERFORMER Bill Cosby FAVORITE TV COMEDY PROGRAM "The Cosby Show" FAVORITE TV DRAMATIC PROGRAM "L.A. Law" FAVORITE YOUNG TV PERFORMER Kirk Cameron FAVORITE FAVORITE TV PROGRAM "The Cosby Show" FAVORITE COMEDY MOTION PICTURE "Big", "Twins" (tie) FAVORITE DRAMATIC MOTION PICTURE "Rain Man" 15th People's Choice Awards The 15th People's Choice Awards, honoring the best
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the University of Maryland, he would "eat as many as six half-smokes at a time." Cosby returned to Ben's in 1985 to hold a press conference in the restaurant to celebrate the success of his television series, "The Cosby Show". He continues to stop by Ben's while in town for servings of half-smokes. A sign posted in the restaurant proclaimed that Bill Cosby is the only person who eats for free at Ben's Chili Bowl. On November 3, 2008, a new sign was posted to add "the Obama family". Starting in 2012 a large mural featuring Cosby adorned the building,
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Cliff Huxtable Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show". He was portrayed by Bill Cosby. Cosby originally proposed that the couple should both have blue-collar jobs, with the father a limousine driver, who owned his own car, and the mother an electrician but, with advice from his wife, Camille Cosby, the concept was changed so that the family was well-off financially, with the mother a lawyer and the father a doctor. Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable is known for his comical antics, playful admonishments, and relentless teasing humor. He lives in Brooklyn Heights,
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one of which was a car. Some episodes had celebrities, including George Fenneman, Phil Harris, and Greg Evigan, appear as contestants; each played for a member of the studio audience. Another version hosted by Bill Cosby aired from September 7, 1992 to June 4, 1993 (with repeats airing until September 3 of that year) in syndication. Carsey-Werner syndicated the series, the first show they distributed themselves. Cosby was joined on this show by a female announcer and sidekick, Robbi Chong, who was referred to as "Renfield". Organist Shirley Scott contributed the jazzy theme music, and the program was taped in
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appeared in the comedy Clerks II in which he plays a cop who notices the words "Porch Monkey 4 Life" written on the back of Randal Graves' work jacket. In 2008, he did the voice of Bishop for "Wolverine and the X-Men". Later, he did the voice of Nick Fury on "The Super Hero Squad Show". He often plays characters based on comedian Bill Cosby, such as on "Family Guy" ("Brian Does Hollywood"), where Stewie is a contestant on the comedian's "Kids Say the Darndest Things"; as Cosby himself on "The Boondocks" and playing the role of Numbuh 5's father
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concluded on June 26, 2005 with an "unofficial" fifth installment. The series garnered media attention when lawyers for Cosby sent Roiland and site administrator Dan Harmon a cease and desist letter in June 2005, which resulted in the series' ending. The show was created prior to public knowledge of any sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby. It is the best-known series to arise from Channel 101. The series revolves around Mitchell Reynolds (Davis), a fan of comedian Bill Cosby who, using one of Cosby's hairs, spends a decade crafting a cloning machine to create his dream: a "house of Cosbys".
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of the fifteen episodes that were produced. Bill Cosby later admitted that he felt the show's cancellation was justified due to the series not being very well written. Here and Now (1992 TV series) Here and Now is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to January 2, 1993. The series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner in the lead role, who prior to this series co-starred in "The Cosby Show" which ended its run in April 1992. Bill Cosby served as one of the show's executive producers along with Warner serving as executive consultant credited as M.J.
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notables such as Erik Estrada, Chuck Norris and Richard Simmons donned them. Josephine Premice, a singer in the 1980s and a good friend of Koos's, asked him to make a sweater as present for Bill Cosby. She took it to the set of "The Cosby Show" where Bill immediately put it on and wore it for the taping. It was an instantaneous hit. Cosby then began giving his friends presents made by Koos. Cosby invited friends to New York for a weekend to celebrate his wife Camille's birthday and he asked Koos to open the store on Sunday especially for
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differences". The season's 24th episode "Cliff and Jake", which aired on April 11, 1991, marks Bonet's final appearance on the show. Cosby claims that he fired Bonet because "The Cosby Show"'s material was no longer challenging for her, blaming himself for her character lacking in development: "it's not funny to have someone 21 acting like she's still about 12." However, he commended Bonet's acting talent. Cosby then decided that Bonet's screen time would be divided among "new kids on the show who are working hard, studying so heard and really deserve a shot during what will be our final year."
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Camille Cosby Camille Olivia Cosby (née Hanks; born March 20, 1944) is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby. The character of Clair Huxtable from "The Cosby Show" was based on her. Camille was born Camille Olivia Hanks on March 20, 1944, in Washington D.C., to Guy A. Hanks Sr. and Catherine C. Hanks. She grew up in Norbeck, Maryland, just outside Washington. She is the oldest of four children and is a distant cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of United States President Abraham Lincoln. Through Lincoln, she is a distant cousin of
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blaxploitation genre. She appeared at the Val Air Ballroom sponsored by Black Pride, Inc., in 1978. American TV audiences became familiar with Falana during the early 1970s. She often appeared on "The Joey Bishop Show" and "The Hollywood Palace", displaying her talent for music, dance, and light comedy. These appearances led to more opportunities. She was the first supporting player hired by Bill Cosby for his much-anticipated variety hour, "The New Bill Cosby Show", which made its debut on September 11, 1972 (her 30th birthday) on CBS. Cosby had met Falana in his college days, when he was a struggling
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the prospect of his viewers being able to watch the film without interruption for advertisements, and hoped this would provide an enhanced rhythm to the show. On August 14, 2014, Netflix announced that "Bill Cosby 77" would be made available to its subscribers on November 28, 2014. Netflix intended for the program to be made available from the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. After its announcement, Cosby posted to Twitter: "I thank @Netflix for this opportunity to show my talent all around the internet." Netflix made public its decision on November 18, 2014 to delay release of the
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various other television shows, movies and book covers. As most of Honeywood's published work was for the "Little Bill" book series, those with asterisks (*) designate publications not from the series. www.Varnette.net Varnette Honeywood Varnette Patricia Honeywood (December 27, 1950 – September 12, 2010) was an American painter, writer, and businesswoman whose paintings and collages depicting African-American life hung on walls in interior settings for "The Cosby Show" after Camille and Bill Cosby had seen her art and started collecting some of her works. Her paintings also appeared on television on the "Cosby Show" spin-off "A Different World", as well
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investigation, she broke the news that President Bill Clinton was about to be subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury. After receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing, she was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues. In 2005, Cosby moved to MSNBC to host a primetime weeknight show, "Rita Cosby Live & Direct". It became the network’s highest-rated show that year, and she did extensive reports for other NBC programs, including "The Today Show". She traveled for the network, originating live for several weeks from
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produced and starred in the television sitcom "The Cosby Show", which aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America for 1985 through 1989. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. Cosby produced the spin-off sitcom "A Different World", which aired from 1987 to 1993. He also starred in "The Cosby Mysteries" from 1994 to 1995 and in the sitcom "Cosby" from 1996 to 2000, and hosted "Kids Say the Darndest Things" from 1998 to 2000. Cosby's career and image were seriously damaged in the mid-2010s by many sexual
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unit) stopped airing reruns of "The Cosby Show". At the same time, barter syndicator The Program Exchange ceased distributing the latter show. Bounce TV resumed airing the series in December 2016 but pulled the show on April 26, 2018 — the day Cosby was convicted of sexual assault. TV One began airing reruns of the show in May 2017. It is currently the only American network to offer the series. "The Cosby Show"s producers created a spin-off series called "A Different World" that was built around the "Denise" character (portrayed by actress Lisa Bonet), the second of the Huxtables' four
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in Harlem, at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Cosby and his wife have collected over 300 works of African-American art since 1967. The works went on display in "Conversations", an exhibit at the National Museum of African Art in 2014. The show became controversial as the increasing number of sexual assault allegations against Cosby became prominent. Cosby is a supporter of his alma mater, Temple University, particularly its men's basketball team, whose games Cosby frequently attended prior to his arrest. He is also a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity; he was initiated in the fraternity's Beta
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Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! is the debut album release by Bill Cosby. It was recorded live at the nightclub The Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village during early 1963. The album includes three sketches about Noah. Sean Carruthers of AllMusic rated the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that "Those who only know Bill Cosby as an '80s television star and product pitchman don't know how truly funny and edgy he used to be when he first started out." Vinyl copies of the album had all the
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all three counts and a fine of up to $25,000. On September 6, 2016, the prosecution filed a motion to introduce 13 other accusers to show a method of operation. Cosby opposed the motion. On February 24, 2017, O'Neill ruled that, out of the other accusers that the prosecution wanted to introduce to show a pattern of alleged criminal sexual behavior by Cosby, only one would be allowed to testify. The prosecution also moved to introduce into evidence a recorded conversation between Constand's mother Gianna Constand and Cosby discussing the alleged assault. The defense moved to have the deposition from
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were at odds over his refusal to include a laugh track in the show. Cosby felt that viewers were intelligent enough to find the humour themselves, without being prompted. While a few comedy-dramas already aired without laugh tracks, few sitcoms went without and those that did had studio audiences. The handful of no laugh track, no studio audience, non drama sitcoms prior to this included "The Trouble with Father" and "The Beulah Show". In September 1984, Cosby returned to NBC, with a similarly named sitcom titled "The Cosby Show". The popularity of that sitcom led to reruns of this one
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and making decisions on her own, and she is deeply loved in my heart". The media continued to circulate Bonet's photographs heavily, which is believed to have instigated a highly publicized dispute between the actress and Cosby towards the end of the 1980s. Cosby expressed concern over how the photographs would affect "The Cosby Show"'s younger audience and Bonet's younger cast mates. Although producers felt that the scandal would disturb "the squeaky-clean Huxtable image", Cosby eventually decided to provide Bonet with her own television series, a spin-off of "The Cosby Show" entitled "A Different World". The network agreed that Bonet
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short segment of the episode features Bill Cosby asking a child on his show "Kids Say the Darndest Things" about games he likes to play, to which the child promptly replies "Pokémon!" Cosby begins incoherently rambling about what Pokémon is whilst flapping his ears. This is a parodied mannerism of Cosby's that is often used on the show. Another similar gag was used in the episode "Helter Shelter". In this episode Pokémon is incorrectly pronounced "Pok-ee-mon". This is the second time Cosby has been parodied on "The Simpsons". The first was "Round Springfield". This sequence involving Bill Cosby's exaggerated mannerisms
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Motown Records. The film is regarded by some as "the greatest stand up concert movie ever." Nearly all of the movie concerns the trials and tribulations of raising children, frequently illustrated with anecdotes involving his own family. Occasionally, he compares these with stories from his childhood. Other topics include grandparents, going to the dentist, and people who drink too much or take drugs. Bill Cosby: Himself Bill Cosby: Himself is a 1983 stand-up comedy film featuring Bill Cosby. Filmed before a live audience at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, Ontario, Cosby gives the audience his views ranging from marriage
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return to television as one of the lead characters of ABC's crime drama "The Evidence", as Cayman Bishop. He has also appeared in two episodes of "Everybody Hates Chris", the first in 2007 as Chris's substitute teacher and the second in 2008 as Clint Huckstable, an allusion to the character Cliff Huxtable played by Bill Cosby on "The Cosby Show". In 2008, he appeared as Harold Wilcox, a violent veteran with PTSD, on "New Amsterdam". In the first season of the show, Jones also starred on Nick Cannon's "Wild 'N Out". Jones was the first guest star on the show.
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time on Thursday, where it would compete with "The Cosby Show" on NBC, the number one show at the time. Through the summer, several news outlets published stories about the supposed "Bill vs. Bart" rivalry. "Bart Gets an F" (season two, 1990) was the first episode to air against "The Cosby Show", and it received a lower Nielsen ratings, tying for eighth behind "The Cosby Show", which had an 18.5 rating. The rating is based on the number of household televisions that were tuned into the show, but Nielsen Media Research estimated that 33.6 million viewers watched the episode, making
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Cosby pouring a can of Pepsi into a can of Coke. Marcio Moreira, a McCann Erickson creative executive behind the New Coke introduction, said in 2011 that the decision to hire Cosby was not made until other commercials were being edited. "The Cosby Show" debuted in 1984, becoming "TV's biggest hit in the 1980s" and reviving both the sitcom genre and NBC. Before the series premiere, Cosby told reporters his income from commercials for Coke and Ford, as well as his Las Vegas shows, had made him financially secure. At some point before 1985, Cosby featured in advertisements for Bird's
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Randolph (as Kincaid's mother) and Rex Ingram. Well known guest stars appear as well, including Henry Fonda and veteran comedians Mantan Moreland and Moms Mabley as Kincaid's married—and feuding—uncle and aunt. The show's horn centric and funky theme song, "Hikky Burr", was written by Cosby and Quincy Jones, with Cosby providing the vocals. A new version of the theme was recorded for the second season. Notably, the show did not use a laugh track; in that regard it was unique among half hour situation comedies at the time. According to commentary on the show's Season 1 DVD, Cosby and NBC
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to take advantage of this phase of Cosby's career, by joining with Filmation producers of "Fat Albert" to create live-action segments starring Cosby, for the 1964/1971 animated film "Journey Back to Oz"; it subsequently aired in syndication. Cosby was also a regular on children's public television programs starting in the 1970s, hosting the "Picture Pages" segments that lasted into the early 1980s. Cosby's greatest television success came in September 1984 with the debut of "The Cosby Show". Cosby, an advocate for family-oriented humor, co-produced the series, held creative control, and involved himself in every aspect of production. Plots were often
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who served as a mess steward in the U.S. Navy. Cosby was the class president as well as the captain of both the baseball and track and field teams at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia. Teachers noted that he had a propensity for clowning around instead of studying, and he described himself as the class clown. At FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby acted in plays and continued to compete in sports. Cosby then went to Philadelphia's Central High School, a magnet school and academically rigorous college prep school, where he ran track and played baseball, football, and basketball.
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Introduced during the show's later seasons, Pam Tucker (Erika Alexander), a cousin of the Huxtable family, is considered to be a "replacement" for Denise; StyleBlazer believes that Pam was created because the sitcom "needed another character to play a free-spirited problem child." Bonet developed a reputation for being difficult to work with on "The Cosby Show". Although nearly every main and recurring character who played a significant role on the series returned for "The Cosby Show"'s finale "And So We Commence", which revolves around Denise's younger brother Theo graduating from New York University, Bonet was not invited back to make
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because it would be able to be seen by viewers without interruptions for advertisements. On August 14, 2014, Netflix announced that "Bill Cosby 77" would be made available to its subscribers on November 28, 2014. Netflix intended for the program to be available from the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. On November 18, 2014, Netflix announced that it would delay the film's release. The announcement by Netflix came a matter of hours after Janice Dickinson publicly added her name to a list of women who alleged that Cosby had sexually assaulted and raped them. Bill Cosby turned 77
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website, while NBC scrapped its plans to develop a brand new sitcom starring Cosby. In December 2014, the Magic Johnson-owned Aspire removed the two series "I Spy" and "The Bill Cosby Show" from its lineup. In July 2015, broadcast network Bounce TV pulled reruns, and BET's Centric (another Viacom unit) stopped airing reruns. The show is still available on Hulu Plus. Although the series returned to Bounce TV in December 2016, the series was pulled from the network again in April 2018 following Cosby's guilty verdict. In March 2015, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a new plan titled "It's Never
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Clair Huxtable Clair Olivia Hanks Huxtable is a fictional character who appears on the American sitcom "The Cosby Show" (1984–1992). Portrayed by actress Phylicia Rashad, Clair, the wife of Cliff Huxtable and mother of their five children, is the matriarch of the show's central Huxtable family. Working as a lawyer, Clair values the importance of maintaining a successful career and strong household simultaneously. The character debuted alongside most of her family in the pilot episode, "Theo's Economic Lesson", which premiered on September 20, 1984. Created by comedian Bill Cosby, Clair is based on Cosby's own wife, Camille. Cosby originally intended
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Play", Jackson was introduced to director Spike Lee who would later include him in small roles for the films "School Daze" (1988) and "Do the Right Thing" (1989). He also played a minor role in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas" as real-life Mafia associate Stacks Edwards and also worked as a stand-in on "The Cosby Show" for Bill Cosby for three years. Having overdosed on heroin several times, Jackson gave up the drug in favor of cocaine. His family entered him into a New York rehabilitation clinic. After he successfully completed rehabilitation, Jackson appeared in "Jungle Fever" as a
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high school, a bachelor, and an average cool guy trying to earn a living and help people out along the way. The show ran for two seasons, 52 episodes in all. While only a modest critical success, "The Bill Cosby Show" was a ratings hit, finishing eleventh in its first season. With the high school as the setting of most episodes, storylines comprise: life lessons, students and fellow teachers, family drama, a coach's purview, and a few challenging forays as a substitute teacher of algebra or English. Cosby was lauded for using some previously unknown African-American performers such as Lillian
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show black people and white people together in their commercials. "The Bill Cosby Radio Program", which debuted in 1968, was sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company. The series was syndicated to over 200 radio stations by McCann Erickson, Coca-Cola's advertising agency. In 1974, Cosby began promoting Jell-O pudding for General Foods. Cosby said comedian Jack Benny, whose program the brand sponsored, was the only previous spokesman for Jell-O, but Kate Smith, Lucille Ball, and Andy Griffith have also pitched the brand. In previous campaigns since the brand's launch in 1902, it was targeted towards parents rather than to children, a practice
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sitcom's main characters to notice that Cosby had imbued his series with "proud and vocal feminism" in the form of Clair. According to Bailey, "The Cosby Show" was not only successful because Clair "was a strong, liberated woman with a career"; she also "had a husband and family who supported and valued her endeavors." Dubbing Clair's influence on pop culture as "one of TV’s great feminists" the "Other Huxtable Effect", Bailey concluded that the character's impact remains indisputable despite Cosby's recent sexual assault allegations, and thus maintains that "The Cosby Show"'s legacy as a feminist series should not be discredited.
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Philadelphia childhood friend who was the basis for the hit cartoon series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"; Albert's signature cry "Hey! Hey! Hey!", a trademark of the later TV series, is also heard for the first time. Old Weird Harold, another of Cosby's friends/characters, is also featured on this album, primarily on the track "9th Street Bridge." Revenge (Bill Cosby album) Revenge (1967) is the fifth album by comedian Bill Cosby. It was recorded live at Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada by Warner Bros. Records. It won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. It also hit #1 on
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show's announcer, and other persons previously best known as comedy writers, including Ronny Graham and Pat McCormick. Quincy Jones' orchestra provided the music. Ongoing sketches included "The Wife of the Week" and the adventures of "The Dude", a man who was so impossibly cool that nothing whatever could faze him or cause him in any way to lose his composure or coolness. The opening theme was "Chump Change" by Quincy Jones. The show was met with low ratings, due to competition from ABC's Monday Night Football, and was cancelled after one season. The New Bill Cosby Show The New Bill
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It premiered in June 2004 on Nick at Nite, and aired for two seasons. Fatherhood (book) Fatherhood is a 1986 book attributed to Bill Cosby, and published by Doubleday & Company in 1986. The book was ghostwritten by humorist Ralph Schoenstein. The introduction and afterword were written by American psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind published an audio cassette edition of "Fatherhood", with narration by Bob Askey. Another audiobook edition, published in 2008, is read by actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who appeared alongside Cosby in the sitcom "The Cosby Show" from 1984 to 1992. In "The
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words of the title on the front cover in magenta. The compact disc changed the color to black. Additionally, the compact disc removed the words "Produced by Allan Sherman" which appeared underneath the title on the front cover of the vinyl album cover. All content written by Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! is the debut album release by Bill Cosby. It was recorded live at the nightclub The Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village during early 1963. The album includes three sketches about Noah. Sean Carruthers of
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pudding pops alongside Bill Cosby. After starting his career at the age of three, White's first television role was a guest stint on "The Jeffersons", in 1984. He later auditioned for the role of Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show". According to White, he was cast in the role (the character was originally intended to be male) but was replaced by Keshia Knight Pulliam when Bill Cosby decided to mirror his television family after his real life family. The following year, he was cast as the son of Flip Wilson and Gladys Knight on the CBS sitcom "Charlie and Company".
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can't speak." In the wake of the allegations, numerous organizations have severed ties with Cosby, and honors and titles that were previously awarded to him have been revoked. Reruns of "The Cosby Show" and other shows featuring Cosby have also been pulled from syndication by many organizations. 25 colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees. In an attempt to explain the backlash against Cosby, "Adweek" reporter Jason Lynch noted that the "media landscape has changed considerably—and has now been joined by the far-less-forgiving social media arena." Most of the acts fall outside of the statutes of limitations for criminal prosecution,
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"Black Dynamite" episode "Sweet Bill's Badass Singalong Song or Bill Cosby Ain't Himself" The Brown Hornet The Brown Hornet was a show-within-a-show (or more accurately, a cartoon-within-a-cartoon) on the Filmation animated series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" from 1979 to approximately 1984. The Brown Hornet was a show that Fat Albert's gang watched on a barely working television in their clubhouse. Originally the Brown Hornet was presented on a radio program by Cosby as an African-American version of the Green Hornet. During the cartoon the character was rewritten as a caped and masked space hero. The Brown Hornet was
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