his Bill Cosby coming at you with music
and fun and if you’re not careful you
may learn something before it’s done
jello and sweaters remind us of one man
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Bill Cosby I am your father I
brought you in this world and I’ll take
you out William Henry Cosby jr. was born
July 12th 1937 in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Cosby was a class clown who
focused more on sports than studying
after dropping out to work he joined the
Navy and earned his high school
equivalency Cosby eventually left
College to develop his talent for making
people laugh
Cosby tort comedy clubs in the early
1960s and made fans with his informal
routines and silly faces
by 1963 he landed on The Tonight Show
and helped subtly push civil rights
forward with his relatable observational
stories in fact Cosby expanded his
audience by avoiding controversial or
race driven themes I watched the movie
and then run home and jump in bed with
my mother because she’d protect me
and today now I look at my mother she’s
only 4 1 and I think she’d have trouble
trying to punch out Frankenstein
mid-decade he won a deal with Warner
Brothers and began releasing comedy
albums that earned him praise and loads
of Grammy Awards Cosby’s big
breakthrough came in 1965 when he became
the first African American to co-star in
a dramatic TV show I spy proved the
likable comedian could also act by
earning Cosby three successive Emmys
before the show’s end in 1968 besides
his TV role driving stand-up career and
successful comedy albums Cosby decided
to sing 1967 s silver throat Bill Cosby
sings was a hit but Cosby largely
returned to comedy for the remainder of
his career 1969 s hit sitcom the Bill
Cosby Show meant he wasn’t away from TV
long this marked the first time a black
entertainer starred in a Cell
title comedy series following that
success Cosby returned to school to earn
a masters and a doctorate
he then nurtured his lifelong desire to
teach by actively promoting education as
a cast member on 1971’s PBS KIDS show
The Electric Company he also recorded
Bill Cosby talks to kids about drugs
which won him a Grammy the following
year do you think it’s fun to have to
take a pill or to snip something or to
snort something more to shoot something
in your arm to make yourself feel as a
lot of people think better in 1972 Cosby
showed off his many talents as hosts of
the short-lived variety series the new
Bill Cosby Show
but that year’s educational children’s
cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby kids
was the big winner during the 70s Cosby
partnered with other high-profile
african-american entertainers to combat
the popular blaxploitation style with
more clean comedy films some were
successes and some were failures after
taking over as host of the educational
picture pages TV segments Cosby’s
credibility won him jobs as a trusted
spokesman for brands like Coca Cola
Kodak and jello this stuff is great
but the best was yet to come in 1984
Cosby debuted his next TV triumph as
creator and star of The Cosby Show with
a functional affluent and well-educated
black family at its core this series
changed the way african-americans were
portrayed on TV it also single-handedly
saved the sitcom format and NBC from
failure with its bright humor killer
ratings and multitude of awards I love
you yeah and maybe your mother loved you
to the show spawned the 1987 spin-off a
different world meanwhile Cosby put pen
to paper for bestsellers like fatherhood
and love and marriage but not everything
he touched was gold he wrote and
produced 1987 spy spoof Leonard part six
but was so disappointed in the finished
product
he discouraged audiences from attending
he tried again with 1990s ghost dad and
was marginally more successful
eat shit thanks umm quick once his run
as dr. Heathcliff Huxtable ended in 1992
he brought his unique style back to the
big screen in the meteor man and Jack
1992’s The Cosby mysteries was followed
four years later by his sitcom Cosby
where he reunited with phylicia rashad
and showed off his grouchy side not use
my dish towels and what is the smoke
because you think I’m still out in the
yard tragedy struck in 1997 when Cosby
and his longtime wife Camille lost their
son Ennis in a murder
soon after Cosby was involved in a
paternity scandal though the accuser was
later arrested for extortion cosby
focused on work and in 1998 he launched
kids say the darndest things you stood
on it yeah and it just collapsed yeah
and then you fell I fell on the floor
and hit your what did you hit after four
years he moved on to other projects
including the award-winning kids show
little Bill and 2004’s live-action Fat
Albert movie that’s who we are
yeah we were coming out on digital store
outside showbiz dr. Cosby has become
famous for his social conscience and
philanthropy in 2009 his family-friendly
comedy earned him the Mark Twain prize
for American humor but most importantly
Bill Cosby changed African American
stereotypes and United audiences of all
kinds thanks to his upbeat outlook
scoping we spent a whole night with this
bomb
and fun and if you’re not careful you
may learn something before it’s done
jello and sweaters remind us of one man
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning more about the life and
career of Bill Cosby I am your father I
brought you in this world and I’ll take
you out William Henry Cosby jr. was born
July 12th 1937 in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Cosby was a class clown who
focused more on sports than studying
after dropping out to work he joined the
Navy and earned his high school
equivalency Cosby eventually left
College to develop his talent for making
people laugh
Cosby tort comedy clubs in the early
1960s and made fans with his informal
routines and silly faces
by 1963 he landed on The Tonight Show
and helped subtly push civil rights
forward with his relatable observational
stories in fact Cosby expanded his
audience by avoiding controversial or
race driven themes I watched the movie
and then run home and jump in bed with
my mother because she’d protect me
and today now I look at my mother she’s
only 4 1 and I think she’d have trouble
trying to punch out Frankenstein
mid-decade he won a deal with Warner
Brothers and began releasing comedy
albums that earned him praise and loads
of Grammy Awards Cosby’s big
breakthrough came in 1965 when he became
the first African American to co-star in
a dramatic TV show I spy proved the
likable comedian could also act by
earning Cosby three successive Emmys
before the show’s end in 1968 besides
his TV role driving stand-up career and
successful comedy albums Cosby decided
to sing 1967 s silver throat Bill Cosby
sings was a hit but Cosby largely
returned to comedy for the remainder of
his career 1969 s hit sitcom the Bill
Cosby Show meant he wasn’t away from TV
long this marked the first time a black
entertainer starred in a Cell
title comedy series following that
success Cosby returned to school to earn
a masters and a doctorate
he then nurtured his lifelong desire to
teach by actively promoting education as
a cast member on 1971’s PBS KIDS show
The Electric Company he also recorded
Bill Cosby talks to kids about drugs
which won him a Grammy the following
year do you think it’s fun to have to
take a pill or to snip something or to
snort something more to shoot something
in your arm to make yourself feel as a
lot of people think better in 1972 Cosby
showed off his many talents as hosts of
the short-lived variety series the new
Bill Cosby Show
but that year’s educational children’s
cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby kids
was the big winner during the 70s Cosby
partnered with other high-profile
african-american entertainers to combat
the popular blaxploitation style with
more clean comedy films some were
successes and some were failures after
taking over as host of the educational
picture pages TV segments Cosby’s
credibility won him jobs as a trusted
spokesman for brands like Coca Cola
Kodak and jello this stuff is great
but the best was yet to come in 1984
Cosby debuted his next TV triumph as
creator and star of The Cosby Show with
a functional affluent and well-educated
black family at its core this series
changed the way african-americans were
portrayed on TV it also single-handedly
saved the sitcom format and NBC from
failure with its bright humor killer
ratings and multitude of awards I love
you yeah and maybe your mother loved you
to the show spawned the 1987 spin-off a
different world meanwhile Cosby put pen
to paper for bestsellers like fatherhood
and love and marriage but not everything
he touched was gold he wrote and
produced 1987 spy spoof Leonard part six
but was so disappointed in the finished
product
he discouraged audiences from attending
he tried again with 1990s ghost dad and
was marginally more successful
eat shit thanks umm quick once his run
as dr. Heathcliff Huxtable ended in 1992
he brought his unique style back to the
big screen in the meteor man and Jack
1992’s The Cosby mysteries was followed
four years later by his sitcom Cosby
where he reunited with phylicia rashad
and showed off his grouchy side not use
my dish towels and what is the smoke
because you think I’m still out in the
yard tragedy struck in 1997 when Cosby
and his longtime wife Camille lost their
son Ennis in a murder
soon after Cosby was involved in a
paternity scandal though the accuser was
later arrested for extortion cosby
focused on work and in 1998 he launched
kids say the darndest things you stood
on it yeah and it just collapsed yeah
and then you fell I fell on the floor
and hit your what did you hit after four
years he moved on to other projects
including the award-winning kids show
little Bill and 2004’s live-action Fat
Albert movie that’s who we are
yeah we were coming out on digital store
outside showbiz dr. Cosby has become
famous for his social conscience and
philanthropy in 2009 his family-friendly
comedy earned him the Mark Twain prize
for American humor but most importantly
Bill Cosby changed African American
stereotypes and United audiences of all
kinds thanks to his upbeat outlook
scoping we spent a whole night with this
bomb
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