Cosby Show represented, and there was a big debate about it in the 1980s, whether the Cosby Show was saying that there is no racism anymore, or there is.
Bill Cosby , a long time ago, he did this HBO special, this stand-up comedy special, called "Bill Cosby , Himself."
Bill Cosby Cosby Looks So Sophisticated in this image rather looks like he should be in a Wes Anderson
After "The Cosby Show," like it's like, OK, there's not that many black lawyers.
The Huxtables from "The Cosby Show" or the Tanners from "Full House"?
You also did "The Cosby Show" theme song.
And Bill Cosby sits in a chair.
We wasted an opportunity with Cosby to dig in and understand that he was a symptom of something much larger, a larger societal crisis impacting millions
was a performance of Bill Cosby .
But when I saw "Bill Cosby , Himself," when I saw him-- and I saw a man just come up on stage in front of thousands of
a a bad impression of of Bill Cosby like he wasn't even doing a good imitation he was kind of doing a bad imitation of
Think about where did you first hear about Bill Cosby , right?
They were doing-- the big guy was Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart.
culture when I was growing up I used to watch The Cosby Show and there's the woman on The Cosby Show her name is CLA
Obviously, Cosby , grew up with Cosby , and the whole conversation is one that I feel I have every day around other things.
But you know, Bill Cosby , or Seinfeld, or those guys, they all had a thing.
And the title of that tour was "Bill Cosby , Himself."
As an example, the Cosby Show, some scholars argue, that it substituted gender equity for a discussion of race, for a discussion of what was really going on in America at a time
on so many of the coach, The Cosby Show, etcetera, because we didn't have our own versions of them until now.
And he plays a character-- a mullet-wearing, Cosby sweater-wearing gun runner in this.
And I talk a little bit in the book about the impact of "The Cosby Show" and how groundbreaking that was for so many Americans.
So I mean, we did episode on Bill Cosby , but it really wasn't about Bill Cosby .
And Hannibal Buress is the one who told the joke about Bill Cosby , which led to Bill Cosby 's now being indicted.
And he even said, well Bill Cosby , yeah, but you raped women.
And it's funny, Bill Cosby , what you know?
I mean, we don't have a Cosby Show that's overturning a lot of popular notions 'cause we don't have that kind of mainstream media anymore.
And the Cosby Show really, I think, represented what was happening in the country in the 1980s for women, that it was actually a
And in fact, several women had come forth to talk about Bill Cosby .
And in that case, Hannibal Buress doing a joke about Bill Cosby , we even eat our own.
Because at any second, Q-Tip from a Tribe Called Quest or Bill Cosby or Muhammad Ali will walk down the hallway or
Because at any second, Q-Tip from a Tribe Called Quest or Bill Cosby or Muhammad Ali will walk down the hallway or
What's different about them that's different from the other guys, the Bill Cosbys and the Bob Newharts?
A lot of times, it goes so aspirational that it stops being-- Yeah, you have "The Cosby Show," and then-- You need "The Cosby Show,"
And it took a stand-up comic-- and some people point out, a black man stand-up comic-- to say and make the joke about Bill Cosby .
And he said this in a stand-up act and it got laughs, but it led to the investigation of Bill Cosby .
Because stand-up comedy was huge in, like, the '70s and the '80s, with like, Pryor, Cosby , Seinfeld.
First, it's like noticing that Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Bill Cosby are all famous.
And in the chapter that I have, the last chapter, actually about the Cosby Show.
You were all born, like, after "the Cosby show" was off the air.