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unusual facts about Cosby


Benjamin Ward Richardson

He entered Anderson's University (now University of Strathclyde), in 1847, but a severe attack of famine fever (either typhus or relapsing fever) that he caught while he was a pupil at St Andrews Lying-in Hospital (now Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital), interrupted his studies, and led him to become an assistant, first to Thomas Browne of Saffron Walden in Essex, and afterwards to Edward Dudley Hudson at Littlethorpe, Cosby, near Leicester.


200 M.P.H.

While the majority of Cosby's Warner Bros. standup albums were regularly re-released on LP, and eventually issued on CD in April 1998, 200 M.P.H. was not reissued on vinyl (although it was available on cassette in the '80s). It did not see a CD release until 2005, mainly due to controversy over the main sketch's punchline: Afraid that the car was so powerful and hard to control that it would be lethal to the driver, Cosby returns the car and requests that it be given to George Wallace.

In 1967, Bill Cosby bought a Shelby Cobra Super Snake CSX 3303 from his friend, company founder Carroll Shelby.

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There are several instances of Cosby interacting with the audience, and at one point he introduces Carroll Shelby, creator of the custom-made Shelby Cobra from "200 M.P.H.".

AC Cobra

Cosby attempted to drive the super-fast Cobra, but had issues with keeping it under control; he recounted his experience on his 1968 stand-up comedy album 200 M.P.H..

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.

Cosby High School

Cosby High School features an annual competition every year entitled "Mr. Cosby" featuring several male seniors participating in a Miss America style event that includes swimsuit, talent, and interview portions.

Devlin

The Devil and Max Devlin, a 1981 American film starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby

Ennis Cosby

Cosby was buried January 19, 1997, at the Cosby family estate in Shelburne, Massachusetts.

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?

Gerry Cosby

In 1938, he founded the successful sporting goods and athletic equipment company, Gerry Cosby & Co., along with his brother John, which had its headquarters at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby

Unlike many of his other albums, on which his youth provided the source of his routines, Cosby's material here centers mostly on contemporary incidents with his family, notably the tracks "Bedroom Slippers" (involving back-yard play by his youngest daughter and their dogs) and "Froofie The Dog" (involving his oldest daughter wanting to watch the television while Bill himself is watching Gunsmoke).

Jennifer Gatti

Gatti has also guest starred in the television series Full House, Doogie Howser, M.D., Cheers, ER, Cosby, NCIS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

Joseph Hathaway Cosby

Joseph Hathaway Cosby (June 2, 1902-October, 1998) was the second President of Hargrave Military Academy.

Klea Scott

Scott made her network television debut on an episode of the CBS sitcom Cosby before accepting the regular role of Officer Nona Valentine on the CBS police drama Brooklyn South.

Live: Madison Square Garden Center

The shows also featured musical performances from Carmen MacRae and Lionel Hampton, whose set featured Cosby coming out to play "The Saints" on vibraphone.

Matt Busch

He has also worked on numerous television properties, including Battlestar Galactica, Cosby, Family Jewels, Heroes, Lexx, Star Trek, Stargate SG-1, and VIP.

Peggy Suicide

Several familiar Cope cohorts contributed to the record - multi-instrumentalist Donald Ross Skinner, drummer/percussionist Rooster Cosby and keyboard player/onetime Cope producer Ron Fair.

Quan Cosby

As a senior Cosby established himself as one of the elite wide receivers in the nation and became a favorite target for quarterback Colt McCoy.

Cosby was drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the sixth round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft and left his commitment to the University of Texas to do so.

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).

Sheldon Leonard

Bill Cosby also included an impersonation of Sheldon Leonard in one track of his 1966 hit comedy album Wonderfulness.

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.

Skellington

In contrast to the multiple overdubs, 1980s pop stylings and army of backing singers used on My Nation Underground, Skellingtons sound was extremely skeletal, mainly acoustic, and sparsely orchestrated by Cope in association with his two main collaborators - Donald Ross Skinner (organ, piano, keyboards) and Rooster Cosby (percussion, brass).

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.

The Brown Hornet

Originally the Brown Hornet was presented on a radio program by Cosby as an African-American version of the Green Hornet.

The New Bill Cosby Show

Cosby's supporting cast was biracial, highlighted by Foster Brooks of "funny-drunk" routine fame and also included performer Lola Falana, who additionally served as the show's announcer, and other persons previously best known as comedy writers, including Ronny Graham and Pat McCormick.

Varnette Honeywood

Her paintings also appeared on television on the Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, as well as on the TV series Amen and 227.

William Cosby

Historian Michael Kammen characterises Cosby's era as a period of "political awakening and modernization" in New York politics.

Wonderfulness

This was the first of several Cosby albums to be recorded live at Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, by Warner Bros. Records.

Seven of the eight tracks are drawn from Cosby's childhood experiences; the last one, "Niagara Falls", deals with a visit to that landmark by television producer Sheldon Leonard, who hired Cosby to star in I Spy.


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