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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 his coming shows at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan.
WASHINGTON — Someone had to hold Bill Cosby back to keep him from crawling over a balcony and joining fellow comedians on stage as the stars lined up to pay tribute to his life's work.
Schedule note: The Yankees get another chance to clinch a World Series victory over Philadelphia. Game 6 airs tonight on Fox. SPOTLIGHT 'Bill Cosby: The Mark Twain Prize' 7 p.m. on PBS
*Via his blog on Global Grind, rap entrepreneur Russell Simmons has written an open letter asking Bill Cosby to stop criticizing today's urban youth, and focus more on the societal ills that created their behavior.
*New York, NY -- Two of the three artists featured on Bill Cosby's new hip hop project, "State of Emergency" have issued statements in response to the open letter Russell Simmons published on his site in which he critiques Cosby and the CD project.
The following shows recently were announced. Fanfarlo: The British multi-instrumental band plays a free show at 10 p.m. Nov. 20 at Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks.
Wednesday night, I was watching the New York (Evil) Yankees playing the Philadelphia Phillies, hoping that somehow the (Evil) Yankees would lose. When the (Evil) Yankees went up 4-1, I decided I would pass on watching any more baseball and started flipping through the channels.
Bill Cosby, this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, didn't need expletives or raunchy humor to succeed.
Winner of comedy award understands elements of telling an American yarn No winner of the Mark Twain Award has been more in tune with Twain than Bill Cosby. He not only feels an affinity for the giant of American literary comedy. He 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 ...
Watch this special at 8 p.m. on KCTS.
There are some very good sitcoms tonight. None, however, is ever likely to even approach the popular appeal or social influence of The Cosby Show and that's just one reason Bill Cosby is this year's incredibly deserving winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (tonight, PBS, 8 ET/PT, times may vary).
