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Bill Cosby’s hip-hop CD comes out soon, and boy is the nation excited! The Cos gave an interview to Ukee Washington, who irritatingly kept calling him “Dr. Cosby.”
Cosby told kids to put down guns and get real jobs by going to Community College. And look what you can do afterward!
“You can become a mechanic, what kind of mechanic? Air-conditioning? Listen, think about that. You can charge 75 dollars just for showing up , not having the parts and saying you’ll be back! That’s a lot of money!”
Hey, kids, put down the guns and you can get a job as an unreliable mechanic everyone hates! Thanks, Dr. Cosby.
Bill Cosby: A State of Emergency [CBS 3]
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dmac | 3:58 PM | 1 Comment
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Feb
21
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Hey, people of Philadelphia! Get excited! Bill Cosby’s back in town!
Yes, the Cos (inset, with his Dandie Dinmont Terrier) himself will be speaking tonight at a forum organized by Men United for a Better Philadelphia.
Cosby was, of course, at one time a great comedian. The problem is, the only time he’s funny anymore is when he’s being sincere about attempting to stop gun violence and goes off about kids shooting each other over a piece of pound cake and it just seems like another bit. (For example, this doesn’t seem too far from the truth.)
But, man, remember that Penn Relays episode of The Cosby Show? Now that was awesome. I guess we all still love him.
Update, 4:20 p.m.: The Cos talked and told people to stay away from violence. However, I must take umbrage — can you do anything with umbrage but take it? — at his one statement:
“Gone is a potential president of Community College. Gone is a potential doctor of medicine. Gone is a potential great father, gone is a potential honest human being.”
I agree with everything except that last one. I don’t think such a thing exists.
Wow, that was depressing, wasn’t it? Uhh, I mean, “Hey hey hey!”
Cosby Back In Philly To Discuss Gun Violence [CBS 3]
Comic Bill Cosby Tells Phila. Teens to Eschew Violence [KYW 1060]
Archives: Bill Cosby
Related: Philadelphia Will Do at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
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dmac | 11:59 AM | 2 Comments
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Feb
13
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While the Super Bowl was like two weeks ago or something, the Super Bowl of dog shows didn’t start until last night. Yes, Westminster, the annual doggy show held at Madison Square Garden every year, has begun again.
The dog show is always a good time even though the ugly dogs seem to win most of the time. But there are still enough cute ones to make it enjoyable to watch. And, journalism wise, it’s always pretty funny, because there’s always a few captions like the one on this photo: “P.J. a Beagle from Spring, Texas looks for a spot to relieve himself backstage prior to competing in the 131st Westminster dog show[.]”
This year, though, there is another sidestory: Harry, the winner of the terrier group, is a Dandie Dinmont Terrier owned by none other than Bill Cosby (inset). The little poodle-like terrier or whatever was so good no other Dandie Dinmonts even bothered to show up to face him in the breed, and he cruised to a Best in Group win last night. (The finals are tonight.)
But look how excited everyone is!
“Where’s the Dundee? The Dandie, or whatever you call him,” asked a lady sporting a huge diamond ring.
The dog show continues tonight. Aww.
Bill Cosby’s dog: Westminster’s wild about Harry [AP/CNN.com]
[Photo of Harry via Reuters]
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dmac | 9:46 AM | 1 Comment
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Nov
10
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A letter writer in today’s Daily News writes with anger at the new Borat movie:
I was looking for some good belly laughs. What I found was a display of ignorance and bigotry that was uncomfortable. My husband and I walked out not quite halfway through.
We aren’t Jewish, but we found nothing amusing in his depiction of Jews. In fact, it was nothing more than a degrading depiction of many groups, including women. I come from a time (I’m 63) when entertainment didn’t need to resort to foul language, nudity or insults for a laugh.
I long for a return to decency. But this won’t happen as long as we continue to accept mediocrity or make excuses as to the moral decay of society. It’s sad that recent generations missed true comedy like Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Bill Cosby, to name a few.
Ahh, yes, Bill Cosby, who when doing his great “true comedy” was also allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting women. Of course, that may be legal in Kazakhstan, so perhaps “Borat” is guilty of that as well.
Cosby Lawsuit Settled [Daily News]
Borat movie left a bad taste in her mouth [Daily News]
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dmac | 10:30 AM | 0 Comments
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Jan
10
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 In yet another story that Bill Cosby will no doubt say is due to the news media being out to get him, court arguments in a civil trial yesterday revealed that the entertainer signed a deal with the National Enquirer to get a prepublication edit on the interview he did with the supermarket tabloid.
Which isn’t a big deal, since it’s the National Enquirer, not the Inquirer or Daily News or Weekly World News. And, frankly, I don’t know if Cosby committed any crime or not, although he has been getting goofier with age — not that there’s anything wrong with it.
Yesterday’s hearings dealt with the civil suit brought against Cosby by Andrea Constand, a former official with the Temple basketball team who alleges Cosby sexually assaulted her at his mansion in 2004. And now the Associated Press — who is maybe getting into the supermarket tabloid business? — and Constand are suing moving to unseal the court papers, which Cosby had sealed last year.
It’s all very, well, not juicy right now, but obviously if there is any weird Cosby news coming out of this upcoming civil case, we’ll be all over it.
Editor’s Note: Updated around 1 p.m. with accurate legal jargon.
Lawyers: Cosby got ‘celebrity justice’ [DN]
Cosby signed contract with tabloid [Inky
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dmac | 11:45 AM | 0 Comments
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