Bill Cosby
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William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and child offenders.
Before being found and imprisoned for sex offenses in 2018, he had worked for more than six decades. During the 1960s, Cosby began his career as a homeless i in San Francisco.
He then landed a starring role in the television show I Spy and his own sitcom The Bill Cosby Show, which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971.
Cosby produced, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which centered on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area in 1972, focusing on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area.
Cosby appeared in about a half-dozen films over the years and then occasionally returned to film later in his career.
He received his Doctor of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976.
The use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching aid in elementary schools was discussed in his dissertation. Cosby began starring in the television sitcom The Cosby Show, which aired from 1984 to 1992, and was named the nation's most popular show from 1985 to 1989.
The sitcom brought an upscale African-American family's life and growth.
Cosby created the spin-off sitcom A Different World, which aired from 1987 to 1993.
He appeared in The Cosby Mysteries from 1994 to 1995, as well as in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000, and he hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things from 1998 to 2000. During the mid-2010s, Cosby's reputation was tarnished, when several women lodged sexual harassment allegations against him, the first dating back to decades.
More than 60 women have come forward to accuse him of either sexual assault, rape, drug-aided sexual assault, child sexual assault, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, which he had denied, and the statute of limitations had by then expired in almost all cases.
In September 2018, Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault and was sentenced to three to ten years in jail.
Early life
Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 12, 1937. He was one of Anna Pearl (née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a mess steward in the United States Navy, is one of four sons.
At Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia, Cosby served as both the class president and captain of both the baseball and track and field teams as well as the captain of both the baseball and field teams. Teachers remarked on his propensity for joking around rather than studying, and he referred to himself as the class clown. Cosby, a junior high school student at FitzSimons Junior High School, participated in plays and continued to compete in sports. Cosby attended Central High School in Philadelphia, a magnet school and a college prep school, where he competed and played baseball, football, and basketball. He went to Germantown High School but did not finish in the tenth grade.
In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy and served as a hospital corpsman at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia; at Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, Canada; and at the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland. He served in physical therapy with Navy and Marine Corps service members who were wounded during the Korean War. He served until 1960 and was appointed as a petty officer in the 3rd class.
Cosby obtained his high school equivalency degree through correspondence courses and was given a track and field scholarship to Temple University in 1961. He pursued physical education while running track and playing fullback on the college's football team at Temple. He began bartending at a Philadelphia club, where he gained more advice by making the crowd laugh. He then began acting on stage and left college to pursue a career in comedy.
Personal life
Camille Hanks was born on January 25, 1964, Cosby married her. Erika (b.) and his five children were together as a family. Erinn (b. 1965), Erinn (b. ). 1966, Ennis (1969–1997), Ensa (1973–2018), and Evin (b. 1997) 1976: (Because of 1976) Ennis, the family's only son, was killed on January 16, 1997 while changing a flat tire on the side of Interstate 405 in Los Angeles. Ensa's daughter died of renal disease on February 23, 2018, while waiting for a kidney transplant. There are three grandchildren living in the Cosbys. Cosby, a Protestant, owns two homes in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.
Cosby performed at the Los Angeles Playboy Jazz Festival from 1979 to 2012. On Hugh Hefner's 1970s talk show, he can also be seen playing bass guitar with Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. In Playboy's December 1968 issue, his story, "The Regular Way," was included. Cosby has been a member of The Jazz Foundation of America. In 2004, Cosby became involved with the cause. He has been a featured host at the Apollo Theater in New York City for many years.
Since 1967, Cosby and his wife have acquired more than three hundred works of African-American art. The works were on display in "Conversations," an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art in 2014. The spectacle was controversial due to the sexual assault charges made against Cosby.
Cosby is a fan of Temple University's men's basketball team, which Cosby watched regularly before his arrest. He is also a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, was initiated in the fraternity's Beta Alpha Alpha graduate chapter in White Plains, New York, in 1988, and spent briefly on the Board of Directors for the CDC Foundation.
In 2016, Cosby's lawyers announced that he is now legally blind. "They became more concerned that the National Newspaper Publishers Association would be more concerned with fact than sensationalism," Cosby said in April 2017. Both Cosby and one of his former publicists confirmed the loss of sight in the interview, noting that it occurred at a later date in 2015.
Stand-up career
Cosby worked at clubs in Philadelphia and then in New York City, where he appeared at The Gaslight Cafe in 1961. He arranged dates in Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. On NBC's The Tonight Show in the summer of 1963, he gained national recognition. Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow, the first of a series of comedy albums, came out on Warner Bros. Records, which in 1964, released his debut LP. On Spin magazine's list of "The 40 Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time," Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With, was number one, dubbed "stand-up comedy's masterpiece."
Although most comics of the time were using the growing freedom of that decade to look at inflammatory and occasionally risqué material, Cosby was making his name by reminiscing about his childhood. Many Americans were perplexed as to why Cosby's stories were lacking racial representation. As Cosby's popularity increased, he had to defend his choice of content on a daily basis; as he said, "A white person listens to my act and he laughs, 'That's the way I see it." Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. We all see life in the same way. We must be alike, so it must be assumed that we are similar.Right?
"I'm doing as well for good race relations as the next guy" in this case.Bill Cosby: Himself, Cosby's 1983 film "the greatest comedy concert film ever," is widely distributed. Jerry Seinfeld, a younger, well-established comedian, has praised Cosby as both a creator of stand-up comedy and a figure who pioneered sitcom television. "He opened a door for all of us, even though they didn't know that this was a way to create a character," Seinfeld said of Cosby. He made it. He invented the whole concept of having a quote-unquote 'comic' and putting together a television show based on a persona you see on stage." Larry Wilmore, a comedian, saw a connection between Bill Cosby: Himself and the later success of The Cosby Show, saying: "It's clear that the concert is the blueprint for The Cosby Show."
On November 23, 2013, Cosby's first TV stand-up special in 30 years, Bill Cosby: Far from Finished, Cosby's first TV stand-up special in 30 years, on Comedy Central. On May 2, 2015, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted his last show of the "Far from Finished" tour. On Netflix, Cosby would premiere Bill Cosby 77, his latest stand-up special. Due to allegations of sexual harassment against Cosby, the film was cancelled.
On January 23, 2018, he had his last known stand-up appearance before his arrest at the LaRose Jazz Club in Philadelphia.
Career and further education
Cosby appeared alongside Robert Culp in the I Spy espionage film on NBC in 1965. I Spy was the first weekly dramatic television series to have an African-American actor in a leading role. At first, Cosby and NBC executives were worried that certain affiliates would be unable to carry the series. Four stations canceled the show at the start of the 1965 season; they were in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Viewers were taken aboard the show's exotic locales and the actors' genuine chemistry. It was one of the season's top ratings hits. I Spy was one of the year's top shows, and Cosby was named with three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Cosby's third Emmy Award show "Let the news be known to bigots and racials that they don't count."
Cosby continued to do stand-up comedy appearances and released half a dozen of Warner Bros. Records during the series's run. Bill Cosby Sings first dabbled in singing, debuting as "Silver Throat" in 1967. Billboard magazine announced in June 1968 that Cosby had turned down a five-year, $3.5 million contract renewal bid and that he would return the label in August to record for his own record label.
Cosby narrated Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, a CBS documentary about black people in popular culture, in July 1968. Andy Rooney wrote the Emmy Award-winning script for Cosby's reading. Michael Dyson, a Georgetown University professor, said it was one of "the rare exceptions" when Cosby took off the gloves and blinders to talk about race with integrity and discernment in public. It was rebroadcast less than a month later due to its fame and controversial nature.
Tetragrammaton Records, a division of Campbell, Silver, Cosby's Campbell, Cosby, and filmmaker Bruce Post Campbell, produced films as well as albums, including Cosby's television specials, Cosby's animation specials, and several motion pictures. Artie Mogull was hired as President of CSC by the corporation. Tetragrammaton was very popular during 1968–69 (its first signing was British rock band Deep Purple), but it fell into the red and stopped trading in the 1970s.
Cosby pursued a variety of television ventures, including being a regular guest host on The Tonight Show and as the star of a NBC annual special. He returned in 1969 with The Bill Cosby Show, a situation comedy that lasted for two seasons. Cosby was a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles high school. Despite only modest critical success, the show was a ratings hit, ranking eleventh in its first season. Lillian Randolph, Moms Mabley, and Rex Ingram were all praised for playing African-American actors as characters. According to a comentation on the Season 1 DVDs, Cosby was at odds with NBC over his decision not to include a joke track in the program as viewers were able to find humor in a television show.
Cosby resumed formal education after the Bill Cosby Show departed on air. He began working at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a student. Several segments on the PBS show The Electric Company, Cosby.
He received a Master of Arts degree in 1972 (M.A.) The New Bill Cosby Show, originally from UMass Amherst, was also back in prime time with a variety of collections. However, this series lasted only a season. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, a Saturday-morning cartoon based on his own experience, was more popular. The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ran from 1972 to 1979, then ran as The New Fat Albert Show in 1979, and then as The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Cosby's dissertation, "An Integration of the Visual Media Via "Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids" in the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieving Increased Learning, was released in 1976. Temple University also granted him his bachelor's degree on the basis of what the university called life experience.
Cosby and other African-American actors, including Sidney Poitier, joined forces in the 1970s to produce hit comedy films to combat the 1970s' violent "blaxploitation" films, including Uptown Saturday Night in 1974; Let's Do It Again in 1976; and Mother, Jugs & Speed, co-starring Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel.
Cosby appeared in A Piece of the Action with Poitier, 1976, and a California Suite, a collection of four Neil Simon plays. In 1976, he pretended Cos. In addition,, he produced an hour-long variety show starring puppets, sketches, and musical numbers. ABC decided to capitalize on Cosby's career by working with Fat Albert's Filmation company to produce live-action segments starring Cosby from 1972's Journey Back to Oz, which later aired in syndication. Cosby appeared on children's public television channels from the 1970s, as well as the "Picture Pages" segments that lasted into the 1980s.
With the debut of The Cosby Show in September 1984, Cosby's best television success came in September 1984. Cosby, a family-oriented comedian, co-produced the series and was involved in every aspect of production. Although in writing sessions with the writing staff, Cosby suggested that plots be based on Cosby's ideas. Cliff and Clair Huxtable, Cosby and his wife Camille were college-educated and financially wealthy, and they had five children, which was similar to Cosby's real family life. Cosby played an obstetrician on the show. Bill Cosby: Himself, a documentary film that appeared on The Cosby Show in 1983, contained a large portion of the information from his pilot and first season. The series debuted near the top of the charts and stayed there for the majority of its eight-season run.
Cosby attempted to return to film in 1987 with the spy spoof Leonard Part 6. Though Cosby was the producer and wrote the novel, he discovered during post-production that the film was not going to be what he wanted and publicly condemned it, cautioning viewers to stay away. Nevertheless, David Puttman approved Columbia's first film. Cosby began as an advisor to the Los Angeles Student Film Institute in the 1980s.
Cosby went on to a number of other projects after the Cosby Show went off air in 1992, including a revival of the classic Groucho Marx game show You Bet Your Life (1992–93), the television-movie I Spy Returns (1994), and The Cosby Mysteries (1994). In the mid-1990s, he appeared as a detective in Turner Classic Movies' black-and-white film noir-themed commercials. He returned to Sidney Poitier's Ghost Dad (1990) and appeared in minor roles in Robert Townsend's superhero film Jack (1996), as well as Francis Ford Coppola's coming of age film Jack (1996). In addition,, he was interviewed for Spike Lee's HBO series 4 Little Girls (1997), a documentary about the 1963 racial bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 22 people, killing four girls.
He co-starred Phylicia Rashd, his on-screen wife on The Cosby Show in 1996, and began a new show for CBS, Cosby. The show was co-produced by Cosby for Carsey-Werner Productions. The film focused on Hilton Lucas, a herooclastic senior citizen who is trying to find a new career after being downsized and, in the meantime, gets to know his wife's nerves. Madeline Kahn co-starred as Rashd's goofy business partner Pauline. During an advertisement campaign from 1995 to 1998, CBS recruited Cosby to be the official spokesperson of its Detroit affiliate WWJ-TV. From January 9, 1998 to June 23, 2000, Cosby hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things on February 6, 1995, which was followed by Cosby as a full season show. Cosby was canceled after four seasons. It was the last episode of the series on April 28, 2000. The Darndest Things Were In The Year After the original production of Darndest Things was discontinued, the children's account was terminated.
Little Bill, Cosby's semi-biographical record of his childhood growing up in Philadelphia, made its debut on Nickelodeon in 1999. In November 2000, the network revived the famous program. Cosby's 2001 book, as well as giving the commencement addresses at Morris Brown College, Ohio State University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, included a new book in Cosby's agenda. He also signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to produce a live-action feature film based on the famous Fat Albert character from his 1970s cartoon film. In December 2004, Fat Albert was first introduced in theaters. In May 2007, Cosby spoke at the commencement of High Point University. Cosby hosted a comedy gala at Just for Laughs in Montreal's summer 2009, the country's biggest comedy festival.
During this period, he appeared in Mario Van Peebles' film Baadasss. In 2003, there were 203 people who had studied in the United States. In addition, he co-wrote and executive produced the live action film Fat Albert, starring Kenan Thompson. Cosby appears in the film as himself.
Jonathan Franklin, the patriarch of a multi-generational family, was scheduled to be the focus of a new NBC show for 2015. After allegations that he sexually assaulted and assaulted women, NBC cancelled Cosby's current show on November 19, 2014.
As a result of Cosby's sexual harassment charges, reruns of The Cosby Show were banned from television. NBC and TV Land announced on November 19, 2014 that they were halting coproductions and also removing clips of the show from its website. The Magic Johnson-owned Aspire discontinued the series from its catalog in December 2014. Bounce TV cut reruns, and BET's Centric (another Viacom unit) stopped airing reruns in July 2015. Creative Artists Agency, Cosby's cosby's company, lost him as a client in late 2014.