Rolling Out feature talk
Cosby speaks about the necessity for African Americans to motivate each other work to end of negative stereotypes by not playing into them.
You got to answer the same questions that you’ve always asked yourselves. Why would a boy say, he doesn’t mind going into prison because his friend is there. Why would he say that. It’s got to be about the house he`s in. It`s got to be about the apartment, something`s not right. And I said six years ago, I don`t have my time in law. Our children are trying to tell us something and we`re not listening.
Speaks at Teachers College
Cosby speaks on responsibility, fatherhood and assists teachers in teaching in urban environments.
I want teachers who can explain to these kids, I want people who can sign that their are guardians for a 14 year old boy and he can’t stay up to four-o-clock in the morning trying to get some pussy. These are the people we want to get to, these are the people we want to stop. We want to make them aware of what they are doing to the community.
ABC News Radio interview
ABC News Radio host David Blaustein talks with Cosby and his socially conscious hip hop project—The Cosnarati—about their album State of Emergency.
I wanted to put these particular philosophies into a media that would be able to entertain people. I think that finding the writers for it was probably one of the best experiences I’ve ever had because working in television and movies with writers, its very, very difficult to get pages that just jump right at you and say exactly what you want.
KCTS 9 Connects interview
Cosby speaks on fatherhood, Father’s Day and being a hands on father.
These people wrap like, What Father’s Day and then they wrap up something. No box just paper, scotch tape missing the holes and everything, you can tell what the thing is the way they wrap it. It’s a mug.
CNN interview
On Miles College:
Historically black colleges are so wonderful at taking people who may come from those neighborhoods where even the salutatorian, the valedictorian the top ten wind up remedial math, remedial English remedial writing. and way before there was any ADD and ADDHD letters that applied to or dyslexia. our colleges worked with our kids and soon they picked up and they were able to work at the alledas white schools that would accept them.
On Whitney Houston:
I wasn’t surprised because of the gossip around her trying to get to sobriety. Fighting health problems related to sedation or whatever it is. Its been bloated and we all routed for her. And so when the news came out that at age 48 she passed, it wasn`t really a shock. It is a great obviously loss.
CNN State of the Union interview
Cosby speaks on CNN’s State of the Union discussing the Trayvon Martin case. Cosby faults guns not race.
I am a person who believes the gun all around this united states when a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out. And in the wrong hands, in the wrong minds, it`s death, it`s wounding people.
State of the Union interview
Cosby speaks about the Trayvon Martin case, owning a gun and racism.
How are you going to solve a race issue when it becomes he said she said OR he said, he said. What is solved by saying he’s a racist?
State of the Union interview
Cosby explains his views on President Obama and gun issues to Crowley.
I am disappointed in people who don’t look at the woes and the trouble given to Obama. People blatantly speaking out against his color, wasting time and starting up new stories about whether or not he was born here.
Tempestt Bledsoe interview
Bledsoe appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with Cosby, and they dance to the song played in the fans’ favorite The Cosby Show episode.
The one I hear about all the time of course is the one when we all came down the stairs singing for our grandparents’ anniversary.
Interview with David Letterman
Cosby talks to David Letterman about what he finds funny and about he and his wife going to see Jack Benny at the Sahara Hotel. He talks about what he finds funny about Jack Benny.
His name is so and so, I keep him with me because we have the same type of blood.
Jimmy Fallon interview
Bill Cosby talks and dances to reggae music with Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He jokes about reggae music.
It’s sort of like dancing with one leg shorter than the other.
Late Night interview part 2
Cosby talks about to Jimmy Fallon about getting make-up done for the very first time in his life when he was on The Tonight Show.
I sat up and I looked in the mirror with this make-up on that’s 17 shades lighter, now I’ve seen myself every day this color and I thought I’m dead.
AP interview
Cosby gets angry at an interviewer after she interrupts him while he is speaking on murders.
Yeah but I am trying to answer if you would shut up I really would have finished it. I swear, Stop. Children are born and they’re coming up and they don’t have an idea of who clearly is the biological person, the father or the mother and sometimes both.
Phylicia Rashad appearance
Rashad enters the set of The Today Show and surprises friend and former The Cosby Show co-star, Cosby with a gift. Cosby:
She always has her seat. She brought in her chair.
Interview with Don Lemons
Cosby is interviewed by CNN news anchor Don Lemons on his show CNN Newsroom on race and the personal responsibility of African Americans and their community.
What we need is for people to realize, I want to raise my kid i want to go back and get my three kids, I want to take on that responsibility. I want to love my kids.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Cosby jokes about why children shouldn’t be celebrated and questions the physical state of Fallon’s copy of Cosby’s book Fatherhood.
I know that’s me but I never put out a book like that in my life. It’s all ragged.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon interview
Cosby jokes about what he would like to have at his funeral, which includes Late Night’s house band The Roots playing some music.
Pitiful, it sounded better when I was back there.
Interview with Lea Palmieri
Cosby talks to Lea Palmieri of OK magazine at the American Comedy Awards. They discuss Cosby’s appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Jimmy is a person that you like. Jimmy is honest. Jimmy will not get angry where, or who gets the laugh, but you stay in taste together.
Bill Cosby interview
Hall talks to Cosby about parenting. Cosby gives advice on Hall dealing with his son.
Never lie to him about anything. Don’t try to be his friend. Try to be his father.
‘Stunned’
Cosby releases a short statement and tweet to express his shock over his Jack co-star’s death:
I'm stunned! pic.twitter.com/X2RbDRyFxt
— Bill Cosby (@BillCosby) August 12, 2014