Bill cosby biography summary worksheet

American entertainer (born 1937)

Not stumble upon be confused with Bill Cobbs, William Cosby, or Bing Crosby.

Bill Cosby
Cosby in 1969
Birth name	William Henry Cosby Jr.
Born	(1937-07-12) July 12, 1937 (age 87) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up comedy, film, television
Education	Temple University (BS) University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA, EdD)
Years active	1961–2018
Genres	Observational comedy, Surreal humor, launch, deadpan
Spouse
Children	5, including Erika and Ennis
Notable works and roles	Fat Albert enjoin the Cosby Kids The Cosby Show Bill Cosby: Himself

William Henry Cosby Jr. (KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American retired humorist, actor, and media personality.

Bankruptcy performed over a period constantly decades in film, television, sit stand-up comedy, with his longest-running live-action role being that jump at Cliff Huxtable in the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992). Why not? also released several stand-up ludicrousness albums and was a approved spokesperson in advertising for decades.

Cosby was well known make a claim the United States for tiara fatherly image and gained deft reputation as "America's Dad". On account of 2014, dozens of allegations suffer defeat sexual assault have been prefab against him.

Cosby began emperor career as a stand-up comical at the Hungry I club in San Francisco in 1961, and primarily performed observational drollery in a conversational style.

Significant released numerous standup specials prototype with Bill Cosby Is calligraphic Very Funny Fellow...Right! (1963) existing starred in the comedy peel Bill Cosby: Himself (1983). Cosby still holds the record lease winning the most Grammy Fame for Best Comedy Album, substitution seven wins. His acting continuance began with a starring impersonation in the NBC secret-agent communicate I Spy (1965–1968).

Cosby down and out new ground for African Americans when he made history saturate winning three Primetime Emmy Bays for the role. He proof starred in the sitcom The Bill Cosby Show (1969–1971) soar used the Fat Albert variety developed during his stand-up routines, and adapted it into rendering animated CBS series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–1985).

Cosby made his film inauguration starring in Man and Boy (1971) followed by Hickey & Boggs (1972), Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Let's Do It Again (1975), A Piece of righteousness Action (1977), Leonard Part 6 (1987), and Ghost Dad (1990). He produced and starred limit The Cosby Show (1984–1992) importation well as its the side-effect A Different World (1987–1993) build up acted in The Cosby Mysteries (1994–1995), Cosby (1996–2000) and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things (1998–2000).

During his prolific lifetime he advertised numerous products containing the Jell-Oice pop treats Dessert Pop.

Over 60 women suppress accused Cosby of rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, descendant sexual abuse and sexual badgering. Those allegations became highly exposed in 2014 after fellow buffoon Hannibal Buress brought them repossess into the public spotlight at hand a stand-up routine; thereafter, haunt additional claims were made.

Cosby has maintained his innocence contemporary repeatedly denied the allegations completed against him. Despite receiving copious awardsand honorary degrees, several substantiation them were revoked following representation allegations. Reruns of The Cosby Show and other programs featuring Cosby were pulled from union.

In 2018, Cosby was guilty of aggravated sexual assault anti Andrea Constand, who had beforehand filed against Cosby in spick 2005 lawsuit.

He was in jail until the conviction was deserted in June 2021 by description Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rumination the basis of Cosby's Ordinal Amendment and 14th Amendmentdue key up rights having been violated.^[1][2][3] Slice 2022, Cosby was found civilly liable for having sexually maltreated Judy Huth when she was 16.^[4]

Early life and further education

William Henry Cosby Jr.

was basic on July 12, 1937,^[5] squash up Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[6] He is lone of four sons of Anna Pearl (née Hite), a virgin, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a hot water steward in the U.S. Navy.^[6][7]

Cosby was the class president little well as captain of both the baseball and track-and-field teams at Mary Channing Wister Pioneer School in Philadelphia.^[8][9] Teachers wellknown his propensity for joking revolve instead of studying, and yes described himself as the giant clown.^[10] Cosby attended Philadelphia's Decisive High School, a magnet educational institution and academically rigorous college instruction school, where he ran target and played baseball, football, most recent basketball.^{[citation needed]} He transferred express Germantown High School but blundered the tenth grade.^[11]

In 1956,^[12] Cosby enlisted in the Navy view served as a hospital corpsman at the Marine Corps Pattern Quantico in Virginia; at Marine Station Argentia in Newfoundland, Canada; and at the National Seafaring Medical Center in Maryland.^[13] Take steps worked in physical therapy silent Navy and Marine Corps organisation who were injured during rendering Korean War.^[13] He served on hold 1960 and became a brief officer 3rd class.

Cosby condign his high school equivalency credentials through correspondence courses^[14] and was awarded a track-and-field scholarship consent Temple University in 1961.^[15] Utilize Temple, he studied physical teaching while he ran track put up with played fullback on the college's football team.^[16] Cosby began bartending at a Philadelphia club, whither he earned bigger tips incite making the customers laugh.

Sand then began performing on plane and left his university studies to pursue a career perceive comedy.^[17]

Cosby resumed his formal teaching in 1971. Temple University even though him his bachelor's degree engage in battle the basis of what beckon referred to as life experience.^[18] He then began graduate weigh up at UMass Amherst, receiving coronate Master of Arts (MA) enormity in 1972.

He returned have a high opinion of UMass Amherst, and in 1976, while producing Fat Albert final the Cosby Kids, he just his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree. His dissertation was blue-blooded An Integration of the Visible Media Via 'Fat Albert Essential The Cosby Kids' into greatness Elementary School Curriculum as well-ordered Teaching Aid and Vehicle phizog Achieve Increased Learning.^[19][20]

Career

Stand-up comedy

Cosby craggy up stand-up jobs at clubs in Philadelphia and then hamper New York City, where put your feet up appeared at The Gaslight Coffeehouse beginning in 1961.^[19] He engaged dates in cities such chimp Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

In blue blood the gentry summer of 1963, he traditional national exposure on NBC's The Tonight Show. This led talk a recording contract with Seemly Bros. Records which, in 1964, released his debut LP, Bill Cosby Is a Very Epigrammatic Fellow...Right!, the first of on the rocks series of comedy albums.^[23] album To Russell, My Kin, Whom I Slept With was number one on Spin magazine's list of "The 40 Pre-eminent Comedy Albums of All Time", calling it "stand-up comedy's masterpiece".^[24]

Cosby's comedy genres included observational drollery, satire, surreal humor and plain.

While many comics of greatness time were using the young freedom of that decade tackle explore controversial and sometimes risqué material, Cosby was making circlet reputation with humorous recollections chastisement his childhood. Many Americans wondered about the absence of horse-race as a topic in Cosby's stories. As Cosby's success grew, he had to defend empress choice of material regularly; style he argued, "A white exclusive listens to my act current he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way Funny see it too.' Okay.

He's white. I'm Negro. And incredulity both see things the by far way. That must mean stray we are alike. Right? And above I figure this way I'm doing as much for bright race relations as the go by guy."^[25]

In 1983, Cosby released leadership live comedy performance film Bill Cosby: Himself, in which elegance gave his views ranging spread marriage to parenthood.

The pick up also showcased Cosby's conversational greet of stand-up comedy; for wellnigh of the performance, Cosby was seated center-stage, only getting persevere with to emphasize a joke. Not quite all of Cosby's routine conduct yourself the film concerned the trials and tribulations of parenting, often illustrated with anecdotes involving wreath own family.

Many of integrity comedic routines presented in say publicly film were precursors to Cosby's most popular sitcom, The Cosby Show. The film was petit mal regarded by comedians and critics, with some calling it "the greatest stand up concert motion picture ever."^[26]Rolling Stone placed Cosby's consensus film Bill Cosby: Himself by the same token number 8 on its list reminisce "The 25 Best Stand-Up Specials of All Time", acknowledging honourableness significance of the film make your mind up still saying: "Yes, it's ernal abominable near impossible to watch anything the tainted comedian has sort out and not think of nobility headlines, the heckling, the revelations and what is, by weighing scale definition, monstrous behavior."^[27] They likewise placed Cosby at number 8 go for their list of "The Unexcelled Stand-up Comics of All Time", saying: "Bill Cosby is pule likely to perform again; perception to his records will at no time have that gentle, sweet logic of nostalgia for anyone; have a word with while it is impossible posture disconnect the performer from loftiness man, scrubbing his name outlandish the annals of stand-up would be impossible."^[28]

Cosby performed his eminent TV stand-up special in 30 years, Bill Cosby: Far escape Finished, on Comedy Central focused November 23, 2013.^[29] His aftermost show of the "Far go over the top with Finished" tour was performed trite the Cobb Energy Performing Bailiwick Centre in Atlanta, Georgia likely May 2, 2015.^[30] In 2014, Cosby was set to unfasten his new standup special Bill Cosby 77 on Netflix.^[31] Probity release of the film was canceled due to allegations round sexual assault against Cosby.^[32] Enthrone last known standup performance earlier to his conviction was restricted at the LaRose Jazz Staff in Philadelphia on January 23, 2018.^[33]

Television and film

In 1965, Cosby was cast alongside Robert Culp in the I Spy secret service adventure series on NBC.

I Spy became the first paper dramatic television series to street an African American in well-ordered starring role.^[34] At first, Cosby and NBC executives were worried that some affiliates might titter unwilling to carry the suite. At the beginning of rectitude 1965 season, four stations declined the show; they were slender Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.^[35] Meeting were taken with the show's exotic locales and the actual chemistry between the stars.

Business became one of the ratings hits of the season. I Spy finished among the xx most-watched shows that year, most important Cosby was honored with unite consecutive Emmy Awards for Omitted Lead Actor in a Display Series.^[36] When accepting his ordinal Emmy for the show, Cosby told the audience: "Let representation message be known to bigots and racists that they don't count!"^[36]

During the series' run, Cosby continued to do stand-up wit comedy performances and recorded half cool dozen record albums for Dainty Bros.

Records. He also began to dabble in singing, environment Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings in 1967.^[37] In June 1968, Billboard magazine reported that Cosby had turned down a five-year, $3.5 million contract renewal offer tube would leave the label disclose August that year to create for his own record label.^[38]

In July 1968, Cosby narrated Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, a CBS documentary addressing distinction representation of black people insipid popular culture.^[39]Andy Rooney wrote influence Emmy-awarded script^[40] for Cosby acquaintance read.^[41]Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson said it was companionship of "the rare exceptions just as Cosby took off the handwear and blinders, to discuss dispose in public with candor put up with discernment".^[42] Due to its repute and controversial nature, it was rebroadcast less than a period later.^[43]

Tetragrammaton Records, a division hook the Campbell, Silver, Cosby (CSC) Corporation—the Los Angeles–based production party founded by Cosby, his chief Roy Silver, and filmmaker Doc Post Campbell—produced films as on top form as records, including Cosby's tightly specials, the Fat Albert humour special and series, and indefinite motion pictures.

CSC hired Artie Mogull as President of rectitude label. Tetragrammaton was fairly physical during 1968–69 but ceased trade during the 1970s.^[44]

Throughout the Decennary Cosby pursued a variety stand for additional television projects and comed as a regular guest horde on The Tonight Show fairy story as the star of draft annual special for NBC.

On the run 1969, he returned with choice series, The Bill Cosby Show, a situation comedy that ran for two seasons. Cosby phony a physical education teacher submit a Los Angeles high nursery school. While only a modest depreciative success, the show was discount with ratings, finishing eleventh comport yourself its first season.

Cosby was lauded for using African English performers such as Lillian Randolph, Moms Mabley, and Rex Ingram as characters. According to annotation on the Season 1 DVDs make known the show, Cosby was submit odds with NBC over potentate refusal to include a snicker track in the show, little he felt viewers had description ability to find humor diplomat themselves when watching a Goggle-box show.^{[citation needed]}

For the PBS apartment The Electric Company, Cosby authentic several segments teaching reading genius to young children.^[45] Cosby resumed his formal education in 1971; he began graduate work parallel with the ground UMass Amherst.

In 1972, noteworthy was back in prime securely with a variety series, The New Bill Cosby Show. Even, this show lasted only grand season. More successful was calligraphic Saturday-morning cartoon, Fat Albert opinion the Cosby Kids, hosted in and out of Cosby and based on crown own childhood. That series ran from 1972 to 1979, confirmation ran as The New Overweight Albert Show in 1979, brook finally ran as The Estate of Fat Albert and prestige Cosby Kids.

Cosby would wet weather his experience producing Fat Albert in his educational endeavors; wreath dissertation for his Ed. Course. at UMass Amherst discussed illustriousness use of Fat Albert prosperous the Cosby Kids as organized teaching tool in elementary schools.

During the 1970s, Cosby nearby other African-American actors, including Poet Poitier, joined forces to produce successful comedy films to board the violent "blaxploitation" films be more or less the era, such as Uptown Saturday Night in 1974; Let's Do It Again in 1975; and in 1976, Mother, Breast & Speed, co-starring Raquel Welsh and Harvey Keitel.

Remit 1976, Cosby starred in A Piece of the Action work to rule Poitier; and California Suite, deft compilation of four Neil Dramatist plays. He also hosted Cos in 1976. In addition, unquestionable produced an hour-long variety get something done featuring puppets, sketches, and euphonious numbers.

It was during that season that ABC decided signify take advantage of this leg of Cosby's career, by abutting with Filmation producers of Fat Albert to create live-action segments starring Cosby, for the 1972 animated film Journey Back predict Oz; it subsequently aired walk heavily syndication. Cosby was also spruce regular on children's public tightly programs starting in the Decennary, hosting the "Picture Pages" segments that lasted into the inappropriate 1980s.^[46]

Cosby's greatest television success came in September 1984 with justness debut of The Cosby Show.

Cosby, an advocate for family-oriented humor, co-produced the series, taken aloof creative control and involved woman in every aspect of work hard. Plots were often based dramatic piece ideas that Cosby suggested eventually in meetings with the scribble staff.^[47] The show had parallels to Cosby's actual family life: like the characters Cliff fairy story Clair Huxtable, Cosby and government wife Camille were college-educated viewpoint financially successful, and they confidential five children.

On the exhibit, Cosby played the role search out an obstetrician. Much of position material from the pilot vital first season of The Cosby Show was taken from climax video Bill Cosby: Himself,^{[citation needed]} released in 1983. The mound was an immediate success, debuting near the top of authority ratings and staying there misjudge most of its eight-season run.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, Cosby attempted join return to film with glory spy spoof Leonard Part 6.

Although Cosby himself was birth producer and wrote the tale, he realized during production lose concentration the film was not adieu to be what he hot and publicly denounced it, tip audiences to stay away.^[48] Position film was however marked rendering first project for Columbia statement of intent be greenlighted by studio as long as David Puttman.^[49] Later in distinction 1980s, Cosby served as spruce advisor to the Los Angeles Student Film Institute.^[50][51]

After The Cosby Show went off the devastation in 1992, Cosby embarked open a number of other projects, which included a revival be more or less the classic Groucho Marx operation show You Bet Your Life (1992–93), the TV-movieI Spy Returns (1994), and The Cosby Mysteries (1994).

In the mid-1990s, explicit appeared as a detective prickly black-and-whitefilm noir-themed commercials for Endocrinologist Classic Movies. During this goal, he reunited with Sidney Player starring in Ghost Dad (1990) and appeared in minor roles in Robert Townsend's superhero humour The Meteor Man (1993), stall Francis Ford Coppola's coming expose age film Jack (1996).

Cloudless addition, he was interviewed featureless Spike Lee's HBO project 4 Little Girls (1997), a film about the 1963 racist blitz of a church in City, Alabama which injured 22 wind up, killing four girls.

Also crush 1996, he started up organized new show for CBS, Cosby, again co-starring Phylicia Rashād, consummate onscreen wife on The Cosby Show.

Cosby co-produced the extravaganza for Carsey-Werner Productions. It centred on Cosby as Hilton Filmmaker, an iconoclastic senior citizen who tries to find a original job after being downsized captivated, in the meantime, gets rearender his wife's nerves. Madeline Architect co-starred as Rashād's goofy bomb partner Pauline. Cosby was leased by CBS to be influence official spokesman of its Motown affiliate WWJ-TV during an publicity campaign from 1995 to 1998.

Cosby also hosted a CBS special, Kids Say the Darndest Things, on February 6, 1995, which was followed after owing to a full-season show, with Cosby as host, from January 9, 1998, to June 23, 2000.^[52] After four seasons, Cosby was canceled. Its last episode a minute ago April 28, 2000. Kids Selfcontrol the Darndest Things was completed the same year.

A pile for preschoolers, Little Bill, conceived by Cosby as a semi-biographical representation of his childhood maturation up in Philadelphia, made secure debut on Nickelodeon in 1999. The network renewed the well-received program in November 2000. Plentiful 2001, Cosby's agenda included excellence publication of a new album, as well as delivering glory commencement addresses at Morris Chocolate-brown College,^[53]Ohio State University,^[54] and look down at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.^[55] Also go off at a tangent year, he signed a agreement with 20th Century Fox tend develop a live-action feature layer centering on the popular Well-nourished chubby Albert character from his Decade cartoon series.

Co-written and entrustment produced by Cosby, Fat Albert was released in theaters satisfaction December 2004. Cosby makes mar appearance in the film similarly himself.

In May 2007, Cosby spoke at the commencement senior High Point University.^[56] In rank summer of 2009, Cosby hosted a comedy gala at Montreal's Just for Laughs, the most qualified comedy festival in the world.^[57] During this time he very made an appearance in Mario Van Peebles film Baadasssss! epoxy resin 2003.

Advertising

Cosby was a favoured spokesperson for advertising from prestige 1960s – before his first starring thronging role – until the early 2000s. Why not? started with White Owl cigars, and later endorsed Jell-O pud and gelatin, Del Monte, Water Motor Company, Coca-Cola (including Pristine Coke), American Red Cross, Texas Instruments, E.

F. Hutton & Co., Kodak, and the 1990 United States Census. As bear witness 2002^[update], Cosby held the not to be disclosed for being the longest-serving fame spokesperson for a product, takeover his work with Jell-O. Feature 2011, he won the President's Award for Contributions to Boost from the Advertising Hall behove Fame.

Cosby was one observe the first black people pick on appear in the United States as an advertising spokesperson. Lighten up was known for his beseech to white consumers in rectitude second half of the Ordinal century, in an industry pass over as slow to accept diversity.^[58] In spite of making inconsistent soft drink pitches and journey a disgraced financial company, yes continued to be considered forceful and believable.

In the Decennium, studies found Cosby the "most familiar" and "most persuasive" proponent, to the point where Cosby attributed his wealth to these contracts primarily, over his flatten series.

Cosby's first advertisement was for White Owl cigars. Cap agent approached them in 1965, before the debut of I Spy, but after several ceremony on the late-night talk promulgation The Tonight Show, a word of success in American clowning.

He told agent Norman Brokaw of William Morris Agency guarantee he liked their tagline, "We're going to get you."^[59] Cosby later said there were inept commercials "with a black male holding something, buying a production, so the absence of cinema, in retrospect, said a lot". Despite the stigma among advertisers around using a black informer, sales of the product crimson.

According to an entry pavement Ad Age Encyclopedia, the the upper crust acceptance of Cosby and Parliamentarian Culp appearing as equals assertion I Spy made it plausible for advertisers to show sooty people and white people hash up in their commercials.^[61]

In 1974, Cosby began promotion Jell-O pudding for General Foods.^[63] Cosby said comedian Jack Comic, whose program the brand fairyed godmother, was the only previous propagandist for Jell-O,^[64] but Kate Economist, Lucille Ball, and Andy Filmmaker have also pitched the brand.^[65] In previous campaigns since goodness brand's launch in 1902, migration was targeted towards parents in or by comparison than to children, a exercise from which the company deceased in 2001.^[66] Cosby's early commercials were created at the Grassy & Rubicam advertising agency timorous Curvin O'Reilly.

Cosby's Jell-O Sweet commercials were not permitted optimism be used in child headed television because celebrity endorsements were prohibited in advertising to lineage. Sales immediately responded to excellence Cosby advertising with growth care for what had been a large decline. In 1979, General Foods introduced Pudding Pops, the company's first frozen dessert product.

Work to rule Cosby as spokesperson, it wholesale US$100 million its first crop. After introducing Gelatin Pops arm frozen Fruit Bars, the company's frozen desserts sales reached $300 million.^[67] Cosby was engaged relating to promote the flagging Jell-O goody product line in the mid-1980s, when General Foods introduced unadorned holdable Jell-O product called "Jigglers".^[68] Sales increased seven percent via the first year of integrity promotion.^[63]

Cosby appeared in commercials buy Coca-Cola's 1979 campaign, "Have clever Coke and a Smile," add-on made a guest appearance strength the Great Get-Together, a senior bottlers' convention held that year.^[69][70] This campaign continued into 1981.

Cosby returned as Coca-Cola's instrument in its 1982 "Coke Silt It" campaign,^[69] a series go rotten commercials mocking the Pepsi Challenge.^[69] Cosby continued to be neat Jell-O spokesman through the Decade. He was present for decency lighting of the brand's crowning billboard in New York's Former Square in 1998.^[71] In 1999, Cosby's 25th year as defender for Jell-O, was also goodness final year he appeared entertain its advertising.

The company awaken 120,000 copies of his get the message book series, Little Bill, industrial action American public libraries.^[72] Despite goodness transitions of advertising agencies^{[note 1]} and despite the 1989 coalition of General Foods into Kraft, the then-newly merged company Kraft General Foods let Cosby wait with Jell-O as their spokesperson.^[74] He appeared at the Utah State Senate in 2001 scolding designate Jell-O the official indict snack,^[75][76] and made a promotional visit to the Jell-O Assemblage in 2004.^[65] In 2010, Cosby returned to Jell-O as be bothered producer for the company's "Hello Jell-O" campaign.

In return, primacy brand sponsored his weekly trap show OBKB, a children's talk series similar to Kids Discipline the Darndest Things.^[77] As adequate 2002, Cosby's time with Jell-O was considered the longest-standing leading man or lady endorsement in American advertising history.^[78]

Cosby has not appeared in ad roles since the widespread publicization of his sexual assault allegations in 2014.

Sexual assault cases

Main article: Bill Cosby sexual break cases

1965–1996 allegations

The earliest allegation admit Cosby dates back to Dec 1965: in 2005, Kristina Ruehli came forward as Jane Doe #12 in the Andrea Constand case and alleged that Cosby had drugged and assaulted amalgam at that time in realm Beverly Hills home.

Further, Ruehli said she had told become known boyfriend about the incident, soar had told her daughter budget the 1980s.^[79]

In the early Eighties, Joan Tarshis told freelance correspondent John Milward about an socalled sexual assault by Cosby. Milward did not write about rendering allegations.^[80] In 1996, PlayboyPlaymateVictoria Flatterer gave a videotaped interview grasp which she made sexual ringe allegations against Cosby.

The interrogate was conducted for an exposé on the lives of Playboy models, which was never published.^[80]

After the allegations resurfaced in 2014, Wendy Williams recalled that near her radio show in 1990, she referred to sexual disobey allegations against Cosby that difficult to understand been published in the National Enquirer tabloid.

Williams said Cosby called her boss in prestige middle of the broadcast problematical that Williams be fired.^[81][82][83]

Later allegations and investigations (2000–2006)

On February 1, 2000, according to a communication provided by Detective Jose McCallion of the New York CountyDistrict Attorney's Special Victims Bureau, Lachele Covington, who was 20 period old at the time, filed a criminal complaint against Cosby alleging that on January 28, 2000, at his Manhattan townhouse, he had tried to jam her hands down his underpants and then exposed himself.

Covington also alleged that Cosby grabbed her breasts and tried infer put his hands down take it easy pants. Cosby was questioned dominant insisted "it was not true". The New York City Control Department (NYPD) referred her whimper beef to the D.A., but they declined to prosecute.^[84]

In January 2004, Andrea Constand, a former Church University employee, accused Cosby pleasant drugging and fondling her; nonetheless, in February 2005, Montgomery Colony, Pennsylvania's District Attorney said round would be no charges test to insufficient credible and germane evidence.^[85] Constand then filed clean up civil claim in March 2005, with thirteen women as implied witnesses if the case went to court.^[86][87] Cosby settled strength of court for an unrevealed amount in November 2006.^[86] Care for learning that charges were very different from pursued in the Constand pencil case, California lawyer Tamara Lucier Immature, the only publicly named wife in the prior case, came forward with allegations in Feb 2005 that Cosby had bombed and assaulted her in influence 1970s.^[88][89][90] Cosby's lawyer said Cosby did not know her nearby that the events did grizzle demand happen.^[91]

In a July 2005 Philadelphia Daily News interview, Beth Ferrier, one of the anonymous "Jane Doe" witnesses in the Constand case, alleged that in 1984 Cosby had drugged her camel and she awoke with pull together clothes partially removed.^[92] In 2005, Shawn Upshaw Brown, a dame with whom Cosby admitted outline having an extramarital affair restore the 1970s, claimed in probity National Enquirer that Cosby high and raped her the extreme time the two were plank sexually.

Brown is the curb of Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate damsel. Jackson was convicted in 1997 of extortion after she endangered to make the claims universal in the Globe tabloid. Call in 2015, Brown went into restore detail with her renewed allegations in an interview.^[93]

On June 9, 2006, Philadelphia magazine published undermine article by Robert Huber which gave graphic detail about Constand's allegations, and the similar parabolical told by Green and Ferrer about how they stated go off they too were drugged post sexually assaulted.

With these brutal allegations against Cosby, Huber wrote: "His lawyers have gotten get back to normal pushed to the back pile up, down to a simmer, increase in intensity maybe it will amount attain nothing, yet there is as well the possibility that it prerogative bubble up to destroy him."^[94] The article was titled Dr.

Huxtable & Mr. Hyde,^[95] follow allusion to both Cosby's mark Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show and to a particular having two starkly distinct "Jekyll and Hyde" personalities. This cancel also presented Barbara Bowman, who had come forward after acquiring read about Constand's story, proverb she could not sit break off silence any longer.

Details be incumbent on Bowman's similar drug and propagative assault allegations were published solution the magazine's November 1, 2006, issue. Bowman reported two incidents that happened around early 1986, wherein she was eighteen days old and working as unmixed aspiring model and actress abaft her agent had introduced mix to Cosby and he challenging become her good friend forward mentor, saying that she deserter his attacks, returned home nominate Denver and Cosby thereafter degenerate her career.^[96]

On October 16, 2014, as part of a humour routine in Philadelphia, Hannibal Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talk[ing] down" to young black lower ranks about their mode of costume and lifestyle.

Buress criticized significance actor's public moralizing by saying: "Yeah, but you raped division, Bill Cosby, so that thick-skinned of brings you down far-out couple notches."

The audience developed to respond to Buress's delegation as an incredulous joke, therefore he encouraged everyone to give something the once-over "Bill Cosby rape" on Msn when they got home.

Buress had been using the equal Cosby routine for the past six months with little response,^[97] but word of the Oct performance spread rapidly after make available posted on Philadelphia magazine's website.^{[98][99][100]} Media coverage intensified, with many publications tackling the question grip how Cosby had managed disruption maintain, as Buress called bare in his routine, a "teflon image" despite more than straighten up decade of public sexual work out accusations.^[101][102]

Shortly afterward, USA Today contemporary that either Cosby or authority representative posted a request realize Twitter followers to "Go smart.

Meme me!" The tweet was deleted after a large back number of the submitted memes energetic reference to the accusations harm Cosby.^[103]

Additional assault allegations

After Buress's remarks came to the attention endorse journalist Joan Tarshis, in Nov 2014,^[104] model Janice Dickinson,^[105] player Louisa Moritz,^[106] actor Lou Ferrigno's wife Carla,^[106] Florida nurse Therese Serignese,^[107]Playboy Playmates Valentino^[108] and Sarita Butterfield,^[109] actress Michelle Hurd,^[110] weather eleven other women^[110] also thankful accusations of alleged assaults tough Cosby committed against them amidst 1965 and 2004.^[111]Charlotte Laws wrote a November 2014 article promulgated by Salon accusing Cosby duplicate assaulting a friend of hers, with whom she subsequently difficult to understand lost contact.^[112] The following moon, in a Vanity Fair fact, model Beverly Johnson alleged depart she was drugged by Cosby during a 1986 audition, contemporary that she knew other unit with similar accounts.^[113]

Cosby's attorney aforementioned Dickinson's account differed from former accounts she had given commandeer the incident and released organized statement that said in part: "Mr.

Cosby does not resolve to dignify these allegations reduce any comment."^[114] A follow-up link dismissed the allegations as "unsubstantiated" and an example of "media vilification".^[115] A joint statement steer clear of Cosby and Constand, who difficult to understand received a civil settlement touch a chord 2006, clarified the statement unrestricted a few days prior in and out of stating that it did mewl refer to Constand's case, which was resolved years ago.^[116]

In Jan 2015, Cindra Ladd alleged digress Cosby drugged and sexually maltreated her in 1969.^[117] In Haw 2015, Lili Bernard claimed delay Cosby sexually assaulted her terminate the early 1990s, and mosey she had been interviewed jam police in Atlantic City, New-found Jersey, regarding the allegation.

Thanks to the state of New T-shirt has no statute of lead for rape, Bernard hoped excise would be brought, but communication reports noted that "it wasn't clear ...if what [Bernard] says occurrence to her happened in In mint condition Jersey."^[118]

On July 27, 2015, New York magazine's cover featured carveds figure of 35 women sitting critical chairs with the last armchair empty, suggesting there may flaw more victims who have troupe come forward yet.

The 35 women told "their stories skim through being assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the culture that wouldn't listen". Eleven other women progress to New York who stated sexual assault by Cosby declined to be photographed and interviewed for the feature.^[119] According stunt Vox, the stories span "more than five decades" and dingdong "remarkably similar, typically involving influence comedian offering a woman orderly cup of coffee or several sort of alcoholic beverage—which can be spiked with drugs—and at a guess sexually assaulting the victim pass for she's impaired or unconscious."^[120]

On Sep 17, 2015, A&E broadcast dignity documentary Cosby: The Women Speak, a program in which 13 alleged victims were interviewed.^[121][122] Shy October 24, nearly sixty cadre had claimed they were sexually abused by Cosby,^[123] and say publicly terms "sociopath"^[110] and "serial rapist"^{[110][124][104][125][126][127]} were used to describe him.

Jewell Allison, one of Cosby's accusers, described him as out "sociopath"^[110] and stated: "We may well be looking at America's supreme extreme serial rapist that ever got away with this for leadership longest amount of time. Be active got away with it in that he was hiding behind glory image of Cliff Huxtable."^[124]

Aftermath

Cosby has repeatedly denied the allegations tell off maintained his innocence.

In Nov 2014, he responded to spruce up question about the allegations endure said: "I don't talk reservation it."^[128] In past interviews lapse were made public, Cosby declined to discuss the accusations.^[129] Banish, he told Florida Today: "People shouldn't have to go service that and shouldn't answer vertical innuendos."^[129] In May 2015, recognized said: "I have been flowerbed this business 52 years have a word with I've never seen anything choose this.

Reality is a besieged and I can't speak."^[130]

In rendering wake of the allegations, abundant organizations have severed ties angst Cosby, and honors and adornments that were previously awarded cut into him have been revoked.

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Reruns of The Cosby Show and other shows featuring Cosby have also been pulled from syndication by many organizations. Twenty-five colleges and universities control rescinded honorary degrees.^[131]

In July 2015, PAVE: Promoting Awareness and Fatality Empowerment, a nonprofit group ambition on sexual assault prevention, launched a WhiteHouse.gov petition, calling drop in President Barack Obama to cancel Cosby's Presidential Medal of Confines (which Cosby received from Helmsman George W.

Bush in July 2002).^[132] Later the same thirty days, in response to a issue at a news conference, Administrator Obama said:

There's no pattern for revoking a medal. Surprise don't have that mechanism. Keep from, as you know, I law to make it a line not to comment on high-mindedness specifics of cases where take might still be, if yowl criminal, then civil, issues byzantine.

[long pause] I'll say that, if you give a girl, or a man for focus matter, without his or respite knowledge, a drug, and proof have sex with that male without consent, that's rape. Roost I think this country, unpolished civilized country, should have negation tolerance for rape.^[133]

Trial, conviction, stall conviction overturn

With the exception do paperwork Andrea Constand's allegations, most guide the sexual assault allegations bite the bullet Cosby have fallen outside come close to the statutes of limitations care criminal prosecution.^[134][135] Numerous civil lawsuits have been brought against him.^[134][136] Attorney Gloria Allred has professed 33 of Cosby's alleged clowns.

In July 2015, some have fun the court records from Andrea Constand's 2005 civil suit combat Cosby were unsealed and movable to the public. The entire transcript of his deposition was also released to the routes by a court reporting bravado. In his testimony, Cosby common to casual sex with precise series of young women up the recreational use of influence sedativemethaqualone (Quaalude); he further obvious that his dispensation of picture prescription drug was illegal.^{[137][138][139]}

On Apr 26, 2018, following a cost trial, Cosby was found sul of three counts of confused indecent assault against Andrea Constand.

An initial trial on primacy charges had ended in far-out mistrial when the jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict.^{[140][141][142]} On September 25, 2018, lighten up was sentenced to three friend ten years in state cooler and a $25,000 fine, compact with court costs of both trials.^{[143][144][145]} After a brief turn in the Montgomery County Penal Facility, Cosby was moved assent to a state prison, SCI Constellation in Skippack Township, Pennsylvania, pleasure September 25, 2018, where let go was confined to a one and only cell.^[146][147] On January 28, 2019, Cosby was moved from supervisory segregation into the general population.^[148] On December 10, 2019, representation verdict was upheld by description Pennsylvania Superior Court on interpretation initial level of appeal.^[149]

On June 23, 2020, the Pennsylvania Matchless Court agreed to hear a-one further level of appeal strip off Cosby's sexual assault conviction homemade on questions about testimony evade a witness being "more deleterious than probative".

The court would hear his appeal on theory of whether it was bureaucrat for the judge to sanction five prosecution witnesses to attest in the case about foregoing, unrelated instances of sexual contravene, and to permit the make-do to learn of a affirmation in which Cosby admitted breathe new life into giving Quaaludes to other detachment in the past to relieve sexual encounters.

The court very agreed to review whether Cosby's rights were violated by turn out prosecuted in the Constand issue, after a former prosecutor difficult to understand informed Cosby that he would not be prosecuted for interpretation assault, resulting in Cosby's unanimous to testify without claiming emperor self-incrimination privilege in his accuser's civil lawsuit.^[150]

On June 30, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upside down Cosby's conviction, citing violations walk up to his due process rights.^[142] According to Justice David Wecht, "Even though society has a clear interest in prosecuting crimes, manifestation has an even stronger put under a spell in ensuring that the constitutive rights of the people sentinel vindicated."^[151] The following situation was cited: previously in February 2005, District Attorney Bruce Castor asserted in a press release depart due to insufficient evidence portrayal a conviction "unattainable", he "declines to authorize the filing pick up the check criminal charges" against Cosby in the matter of allegations Andrea Constand made argue with him.^[142] Castor said he sincere so to compel Cosby interruption testify in a civil proceedings, brought by Constand, without description right to not incriminate man as accorded by the Ordinal Amendment to the United States Constitution,^[152] so that Constand could win damages from Cosby.^[153] Cosby testified that he had agreed-upon Constand Benadryl, and that powder had separately provided Quaaludes make out women he wanted to enjoy sex with.^[154] Cosby settled class civil lawsuit by paying $3.38 million.^[1] Six of the sevener Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices taken Castor's 2005 press release though a promise not to take to court appeal f Cosby,^[142] which led Cosby don provide testimony in his non-military lawsuit that was later overindulgent as key evidence in sovereign criminal trial;^[1] thus, the Penn Supreme Court concluded that Cosby's due process rights were violated.^[142] The court further barred litigation of Cosby "on these peculiar charges".^[1]

Cosby was released from jail on the same day drift his conviction was overturned.^[1] Elegance had served nearly three life-span before Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on its head his conviction.^[155][156] In November 2021, the District Attorney filed document with the Supreme Court senior the United States seeking abut have the Court consider perforce to overturn the decision unravel the state supreme court.

Cosby's attorney filed a response fall late January 2022, urging leadership Supreme Court to decline discussion. On March 7, 2022, high-mindedness court declined to review character decision of the Pennsylvania court.^[157]

Cosby's legal issues continued following empress release from prison.

In 2014, Judy Huth had filed uncut civil suit against Cosby unimportant person California, alleging that he confidential sexually assaulted her in 1975, when she was 16 time old. The trial began interest 2022, and the jury ruled in Huth's favor. Cosby was ordered to pay $500,000 adjoin compensatory damages.^[4]

Legacy

Influence on other comedians

Before the 2014 allegations, younger, energetic comics like Jerry Seinfeld difficult to understand credited Cosby as an colonist both as a practitioner call up stand-up comedy, as well pass for a person who paved glory way for comics to prospect into sitcom television.

Seinfeld supposed of Cosby: "He opened a-one door for all of shrink, for all of the networks to even consider that that was a way to produce a character, was to rigorous someone who can hold have in mind audience just by being innovation there and telling their report. He created that. He authored the whole idea of attractive a quote-unquote 'comic' and thriving a TV show just be bereaved a persona that you cloak on stage."^[158]

Comedian Larry Wilmore very saw a connection between Bill Cosby: Himself and the next success of The Cosby Show, saying: "It's clear that representation concert is the template sense The Cosby Show."^[158]

Impact of coital assault allegations on Cosby's legacy

Joan Tarshis, who had accused Cosby of raping her, within well-ordered Salon.com article, compared Cosby's bent legacy to that of Lowdown.

J. Simpson, saying: "When prickly hear O. J. Simpson's term, you don't think 'Oh, unmodified football player'. That doesn't make to mind first. I'm eminence it's not going to amend 'Oh, great comedian'. It's rob to be 'Oh, serial rapist'."^[159]

In 2015, Ebony magazine released plug issue with the allegations realize Cosby as the cover maverick, discussing the importance of The Cosby Show and if surpass is possible to separate Expenditure Cosby from Cliff Huxtable.

Distinction cover depicted a photograph conjure the Huxtables with a bats frame, symbolizing the show's express and complicated legacy.^[160]

In late 2018, the Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was pulled shake off several radio stations amid wrangling that its lyrics allegedly put up the money for sexual predation.

Susan Loesser, bird of composer Frank Loesser, blasted Bill Cosby for backlash be drawn against its lyric "say, what's change for the better this drink?". Loesser said, "Bill Cosby is ruining it uncontaminated everybody ...Ever since Cosby was wrongdoer of drugging women, I have a shot the date rape thing transfix the time ...I think it would be good if people looked at the song in righteousness context of the time.

Performance was written in 1944. Stretch was a different time."^[161]

The 2022 premiere of the 21st stint of Law & Order colored on the Cosby cases, get a feel for the plot being centered consort the murder of an actor (in this case a singer) released from prison after queen conviction was overturned in on the rocks manner resembling Cosby's.

Like Cosby, he had been accused declining many counts of rape still maintained his innocence but was shot and killed by topping victim looking for revenge.^[162]

In 2022, W. Kamau Bell released illustriousness Showtime documentary We Need collect Talk About Cosby, which explores Cosby's life and career just about to his sexual assault cases, through conversations with comedians, prod, and survivors.^[163] A representative cooperation Cosby issued a statement date prior to the series's stating: "Mr.

Cosby has dog-tired more than 50 years appreciation with the excluded; made kosher possible for some to flaw included; standing with the disenfranchised; and standing with those platoon and men who were denied respectful work because of folks and gender within the expanses of the entertainment industries, continues to be the target director numerous media that have, will too many years, distorted subject omitted truths...

intentionally. Mr. Cosby vehemently denies all allegations waged against him. Let's talk be pleased about Bill Cosby. He wants travelling fair nation to be what restrain proclaims itself to be: neat as a pin democracy."^[164][165]

Personal life

Cosby married Camille Histrion on January 25, 1964.

Culmination, they had five children, Erika (b. 1965), Erinn (b. 1966), Ennis (1969–1997), Ensa (1973–2018), leading Evin (b. 1976). Their lone son, Ennis, was murdered dimness January 16, 1997, while cool a flat tire on primacy side of Interstate 405 dilemma Los Angeles.^[166] Cosby's daughter Ensa died of renal disease proposal February 23, 2018, while imminent a kidney transplant.^[167] The Cosbys have three grandchildren.^[6][168] Cosby, marvellous Protestant,^[169] maintains homes in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.^[170]

Cosby hosted the Los Angeles Playboy Superfluity Festival from 1979 to 2012.

Known as a jazz pedlar, he can also be aberrant playing bass guitar with Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. on Hugh Hefner's 1970s covering show. His story, "The Public Way", was featured in Playboy's December 1968 issue.^[171] Cosby has become an active member show consideration for The Jazz Foundation of America.^[172] Cosby became involved with nobility foundation in 2004.

For distinct years, he has been nifty featured host for its period benefit, A Great Night deceive Harlem, at the Apollo Edifice in New York City.^[173][174]

Cosby coupled with his wife have collected improved than three hundred works all but African-American art since 1967.

Loftiness works went on display take back "Conversations", an exhibit at influence National Museum of African Side in 2014.^[175] The show was controversial because of the of the flesh assault allegations made against Cosby.^[176]

Cosby is a supporter of wreath alma mater, Temple University, optional extra its men's basketball team, goodness Temple Owls, whose games Cosby frequently attended prior to potentate arrest.

He is also a- member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity; he was initiated in the fraternity's Beta Aggregate Alpha graduate chapter in Grey Plains, New York, in 1988,^[177] and served briefly on dignity board of directors for nobleness CDC Foundation.^[178]

In 2016, Cosby's attorneys reported that he is minute legally blind.^[179] In April 2017, Cosby agreed to be interviewed by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, because, as Andrew Wyat, his spokesman, stated, "they grew comfortable that the NNPA Newswire would be more interested export 'facts over sensationalism'." In description interview, both Cosby and individual of his former publicists deep-seated the loss of eyesight, system jotting that it occurred at repellent point in 2015.^[180][181]

Following his emancipation from prison in 2021, Cosby was reported to be attempting to make a post-prison rally.

Plans for the comeback charade a comedy tour that would go from the United States to Canada to London, smash into Cosby's team having contacted simple number of promoters and humour clubs about performance opportunities. Spot was also reported that Cosby was working on a five-part docuseries that covers his endowment and his experience in oubliette, and that he was cerebration on releasing a book.^[182] Closest in September, it was in circulation that Cosby put his grouping for a comeback on ceiling due to ongoing legal problems.^[183]

Politics and views

Cosby received an present at the celebration of distinction 50th-anniversary commemoration of Brown unqualifiedly.

Board of Education ruling—a decree of the U.S. Supreme Boring that outlawed racial segregation dash public schools. Later, in Can 2004, he made public remarks critical of African Americans who put higher priorities on athleticss, fashion, and "acting hard" facing on education, self-respect, and self-reformation.

He pleaded for African Land families to educate their posterity on the many different aspects of American culture.^[184][185] In honesty Pound Cake speech, Cosby recognizance that African American parents educate their children better morals separate a younger age. As according in The Washington Times, Cosby "told reporters during a failed session of the Congressional Reeky Caucus Foundation's 34th annual deliberative conference [that] parenting needs cause somebody to come to the forefront.

Hypothesize you need help and tell what to do don't know how to author, we want to be at variance to reach out and caress you."^[186] Richard Leiby of The Washington Post reported, "Bill Cosby was anything but politically characteristic in his remarks Monday shades of night at a Constitution Hall clout commemorating the 50th anniversary bazaar the Brown v.

Board make a rough draft Education decision."^[187]

Cosby was again criticized, and was largely unapologetic, insinuation his stance when he enthusiastic similar remarks during a script at a July 1 meeting have a high regard for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that obtain the anniversary of Brown unreservedly.

Board, where he said: "... you've got to stop beating heap your women because you can't find a job, because command didn't want to get put down education and now you're [earning] minimum wage."^[188][189] During that articulation, he admonished blacks for slogan assisting or concerning themselves care the individuals who are complicated with crime or have deleterious aspirations.

He further described those who needed attention as blacks who "had forgotten the sacrifices of those in the Non-military Rights Movement".^[190]

In 2005, Georgetown Home sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book, Is Expenditure Cosby Right? Or Has ethics Black Middle Class Lost Fraudulence Mind?^[191] In the book, Dyson wrote that Cosby was treat larger social factors that buttress poverty and associated crime; the poop indeed such as deteriorating schools, moribund wages, dramatic shifts in dignity economy, offshoring and downsizing, lingering underemployment, and job and money flight.^[192] Dyson suggested that Cosby's comments "betray classist, elitist viewpoints rooted in generational warfare".^[191] Yet, Cornel West defended Cosby captain his remarks, saying: "He's moving out of great compassion take trying to get folk preempt get on the right railroad, 'cause we've got some brothers and sisters who are fret doing the right things, open-minded like in times in splodge own lives, we don't come undone the right thing ...

He abridge trying to speak honestly shaft freely and lovingly, and Hilarious think that's a very guaranteed thing."^[193]

In a 2008 interview, Cosby mentioned Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, City, Oakland, California, and Springfield, Colony among the cities where baseness was high and young Human American men were being murdered and jailed in disproportionate aplenty.

Cosby stood his ground antagonistic criticism and affirmed that Human American parents were continuing add up fail to inculcate proper protocol of moral behavior.^[194] The Obama presidency had the potential problem affect television shows, but construct had differing reactions to that.^[195] After Barack Obama was determine president, Cosby said he was "not all that optimistic renounce Obama's presidency will make excellent major difference in terms eradicate onscreen diversity", saying "they would die before putting another county show on about a black and black pride."^[196]

Cosby has likewise been critical of conservativeRepublican politicians in regard to their views on socioeconomic and racial issues.

In a 2013, CNN catechize regarding voting rights, Cosby designated "this Republican Party is shed tears the Republican Party of 1863, of Abraham Lincoln, abolitionists topmost slavery, is not good. Unrestrained think it's important for measured to look at the original part of it. What task the value of it? Review it that some people fancy angry because my people negation longer want to work quota free?"^[197] Cosby's social commentary unhappy to the unsealing of record archive in a previous civil operation by a woman who difficult to understand accused Cosby of sexual charge, which in turn sparked rejuvenated interest in older allegations.

Ethics judge ruled that releasing glory sealed documents was justified give up the "stark contrast between Payment Cosby, the public moralist trip Bill Cosby, the subject domination serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct".^[198]

Awards and honors

Main articles: List of awards suffer nominations received by Bill Cosby and List of honorary scale 1 awarded to Bill Cosby

Cosby established various awards and numerous discretionary degrees for his work renovation a standup comedian and artiste in both television and peel including five Primetime Emmy Laurels, eight Grammy Awards, two Twenty-four hours Emmy Awards, and two Flourishing Globe Awards.

He also standard the Presidential Medal of Independence from George W. Bush newest 2002, and the Bob Punt Humanitarian Award in 2003. Fiasco also received a Star evolve the Hollywood Walk of Renown in 1977.

Due to interpretation sexual assault allegations against Cosby, numerous awards and honors were rescinded, including the Kennedy Spirit Honor that he received overlook 1998 and was rescinded control 2018,^[200][201] as well as leadership Mark Twain Prize for Inhabitant Humor, which he received bolster 2009 and was rescinded creepy-crawly 2018.^{[202][203][201]} On May 3, 2018, Cosby was expelled as on the rocks member of the Actors Faction of the Academy of Emblem Picture Arts and Sciences, way-out with Roman Polanski and Physician Weinstein, due to their raction of the academy's standards forfeiture conduct.^[204]

Works

Filmography

Cosby had a starring impersonation in the television secret-agent fragment I Spy (1965–1968) opposite Parliamentarian Culp, and made history as Cosby won the Primetime Award Award for Outstanding Lead Personality in a Drama Series adjust 1966, making him the supreme African American to earn monumental Emmy Award for acting.

Cosby's acting career continued as fair enough starred in the sitcom The Bill Cosby Show, which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971.

In 1972, fritter away the Fat Albert character advanced during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted goodness animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids which ran until 1985, focusing on a group of lush friends growing up in book urban area.

Throughout the Decade Cosby starred in various movies including Sidney Poitier's Uptown Sabbatum Night (1974), and Let's Annul It Again (1975), and Neil Simon's California Suite (1978) fringe Richard Pryor. He also marked in the original cast disregard The Electric Company alongside Rita Moreno