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21 unusual facts about Bill Cosby


1969 in animation

November 12 - Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert, an animated special based on the standup routines of Bill Cosby airs on NBC, it would later inspire long-running animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

2004 San Jose State Spartans football team

With an emphasis on literacy, the university hosted a series of events in September 2004, including a conversation with comedian Bill Cosby and a concert by Boyz II Men.

Belva Davis

In the foreword he contributed for her 2010 autobiography, Bill Cosby wrote she also had symbolic value to the African American television audience, as "someone who sustained us, who made us proud."

Bill Cosby: Himself

Filmed before a live audience at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, Ontario, Cosby gives the audience his views ranging from marriage to parenthood.

Samples of his routine were used by musical techno group Lords of Acid, for their debut album Lust on the track "Let's Get High", which including the lines "Let's get high, and have fun!", and "Turn on the sweat machine!".

Cafe Wha?

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool and the Gang, Peter, Paul & Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and many others all began their careers at the Wha?

Erika Scheimer

Additionally, she, (along with her father Lou), provided voices for Bill Cosby's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

George Makris

Makris coached Bill Cosby during his tenure at Temple, a fact that is alluded to in Cosby's skit "Hofstra" on the 1965 comedy album Why Is There Air?

Gil Rodin

Later in his career, Rodin did work in radio and television production, with Bill Cosby among others.

Hamilton Place Theatre

The stand-up comedy film Bill Cosby: Himself was recorded at The Hamilton Place Theatre in 1983.

Howard Sims

He appeared in a 1990 episode of The Cosby Show as Rudy's tap dancing teacher, facing off against Cliff (Bill Cosby) in a good natured tap challenge.

Lonnie Plaxico

Plaxico has also performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, David Murray, Alice Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine, Andrew Hill, Joe Sample, Abbey Lincoln, Bill Cosby, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ravi Coltrane, Scott Tixier, Barbara Dennerlein, Helen Sung and Nina Vidal.

McCarthey Athletic Center

Not only has it hosted basketball games for the women's and men's teams, it has also served as the venue for concerts by Switchfoot, Yellowcard, Ben Folds, Jay Sean, Death Cab for Cutie and comedians Bill Cosby and Jeff Foxworthy.

My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do?

Much of the material was recycled in the 1983 performance film Bill Cosby: Himself (and the accompanying soundtrack album).

Playboy Jazz Festival

Bill Cosby has been the emcee of the majority of the annual festival since 1979.

Quan Cosby

Quan has stated that he is not related to comedian Bill Cosby.

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Bill and Camille Cosby are well known residents of the area, though they keep a relatively low profile.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

The museum is housed in the Camille O. Hanks Cosby Academic Center named after the wife of Bill Cosby.

Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand

Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand is a 1986 album by Bill Cosby.

To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With

To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With is the sixth comedy album by Bill Cosby, and his eighth album overall.

Valerie Brisco-Hooks

Brisco races Cliff (Bill Cosby) at the Penn Relays in The Cosby Show episode Off to the Races, first aired Thursday May 8, 1986 on NBC.


1990 United States Census

To increase black participation in the 1990 United States Census, the bureau recruited Bill Cosby, Magic Johnson, Alfre Woodard, and Miss America Debbye Turner as spokespeople.

Allen Arena

The facility has been host to events such as the annual Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation Concert, bringing entertainers such as former Vibe host Sinbad, Bill Cosby, Dana Carvey, and Jay Leno.

Artis Lane

She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger.

Bob Shreve

Among the celebrity visitors to the PPP set over the course of that decade were Adam West, Bill Cosby, comedian Pete Barbutti and the buxom stripper then known as "baseball's kissing bandit," Morganna.

Children of a Lesser Clod

A short segment of the episode features Bill Cosby asking a child on his show Kids Say the Darndest Things about games he likes to play, to which the child promptly replies "Pokémon!"

Clarice Taylor

Born in Buckingham County, Virginia but raised in Harlem, New York, Taylor was best known for her recurring role on television on The Cosby Show as Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable's (Bill Cosby) mother, Anna Huxtable.

Derrick Murdock

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Murdock has recorded and/or toured with talented performers such as Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show Band, Natalie Cole, Sheena Easton, BB King, Cedric the Entertainer, Gladys Knight, Patti Austin, Michael Bolton, Aaron Neville, Chuck Berry, Dr. Dre, Will Smith, Huey Lewis, Rose Royce, Mandrill, Jim Carrey, Bill Cosby, Solomon Burke, and Peter Frampton.

Enrico Banducci

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers.

The film is intercut with reminiscences by Bill Cosby, Maya Angelou (who started at Banducci's club performing Caribbean songs and patter with a Caribbean accent) and Phyllis Diller.

Freddy Lockhart

In 1986, his family then moved to Arizona where he spent his formative years being influenced by Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby.

George Kirby

He was an excellent impressionist — targeting, somewhat scandalously for the time, many white actors such as John Wayne and Walter Brennan rather than solely black stars such as Bill Cosby and Pearl Bailey — and, for a man of his ample girth, an unexpectedly agile dancer.

Joshua Seftel

Seftel's next film was Ennis’ Gift, an HBO documentary about learning differences produced with Bill Cosby and wife Camille Hanks in memory of their late son Ennis, which featured Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Anne Bancroft, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Schwab and Bruce Jenner.

Koos Van Den Akker

After the success of the Bill Cosby Sweaters his success was everywhere with more celebrities donning Koos garments with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Chita Rivera, Brooke Shields, Isabella Rossellini, Glenn Close, Lauren Sutton and NBA stars Isaiah Thomas (basketball) & Magic Johnson.

Martha Hart

Every year, Martha hosts a Gala Charity Event with a guest star; in recent years, guest stars have included, Bob Newhart 2004, Paul Anka 2005, Neil Sedaka 2006, Bill Cosby 2007, Howie Mandel 2008, Jerry Seinfeld 2009 - 10th Anniversary, Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band 2010, Russell Brand, 2011.

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee

Throughout the years, Nick News has featured special guests of honor, such as Al Gore, Bill Cosby, Faith Hill, Rosie O'Donnell, Magic Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Dr. Phil.

Ralph Schoenstein

Schoenstein was also the ghostwriter of a number of books for celebrities like Joan Rivers, Ed McMahon, and Bill Cosby (he was the uncredited co-author of Cosby's Fatherhood and Time Flies).

Richard Wesley

Wesley earned a substantial amount of money writing the screenplays for the 1974 film Uptown Saturday Night and the following year's Let's Do It Again, both of which starred Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier.

Sheldon Leonard

Bill Cosby, whom Leonard cast in I Spy, described Leonard as "my last father" when he dedicated an episode of Cosby to both Leonard and his slain son Ennis Cosby.

The Original Jam Sessions 1969

The Original Jam Sessions 1969 is a 2004 released album by Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby recorded as backing music for The Bill Cosby Show in 1969.

Winceyco

The limited liability company was founded by Wincey Terry, a professional vocalist who has worked with industry notables like Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Tina Turner, and Garrison Keilor.

CEO Wincey Terry's career in music as a vocalist has placed her in collaborative projects with celebrities like Spike Lee, Bill Cosby, Tina Turner, and Garrison Keilor.