Bill Cosby

...community: the reaction of whites to the work. In a way, it's similar to the reaction of some black activists to Bill Cosby when he had the temerity to argue that some of the pathologies of the ghetto were self-inflicted. He was told he...

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(No, I loved her, she was wonderful)... Washington, D.C. : American shows based on British shows: Who remembers the last show Bill Cosby had, which was supposedly based on One Foot in the Grave, a very dark British sitcom about a...

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...to tell us something, but we are not listening," Cosby said in a statement. Social Media Lessons From Bill Cosby Iconic comic soars, and his new release sells, thanks to 'virtual town hall' Bill Cosby has taught us about a lot of...

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Bill Cosby is coming to Waukegan's Genesee Theatre About every two years or so, Bill Cosby makes it back to the Chicago area to perform. "It gives me time to turn over at least 73 percent new material," he told me recently by phone about...

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...them. He has always used his voice to right what he thought was wrong. However, I believe that too often Mr. Cosby has wrongly placed the blame. Bill Cosby is an example of someone from the older generation who has consistently blamed the...

...be doing as a race. Putting us on front street, then the white reporters eat it up and say well Bill Cosby this and Bill Cosby that he don't speak for nobody but his damn self and FYI he is not perfect either so he should SDFU and go...

...also knows the underlying principles of Twain's oeuvre. Over the phone two weeks ago, when I ask him what he feels about winning the award, he asks me if I know what Twain said about the difference between American humor and English and...

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...the guests at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jerry Seinfeld said his career had been inspired by Cosby Cosby said the Mark Twain Prize was special because Twain was the "quintessential American writer - because he...

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...itself -- Cosby declared, "Even my wife said I was funny!" The Twain Prize was long in coming for Cosby, but only by choice. Cosby said he turned down the honor twice before because he objected to the profanity surrounding the first Twain...

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...work, even in the driving snow! Never stopped to eat lunch during the workday! "He just kept right on working," Cosby says. In fact, Cosby considers his grandfather, who died in 1977 at age 95, a "savior for me in my life," almost a...

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