Bill Cosby

The comedy legend recalls one memorable night when a woman stopped laughing

"...By his own account, Bill Cosby's been a monologuist 46 years, which coincides neatly..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby holds this 'Chronicle' writer to a no-smoking policy

"...Three years ago, Bill Cosby spun stories to an audience of one –..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Cosby

Playing a cozy venue at SXSW won't be this comedy legend's first encounter with adverse conditions

"...Bill Cosby roots around your words – feeling, searching for..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow, Part II

Jazz patron Bill Cosby's cutting contest

"...gold hoops, but an hour on the phone with Bill Cosby gets you in the belly. The man wants..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Just Cos

SXSW Comedy headliner Bill Cosby shares his worst gigs ever

"...If Bill Cosby has an interview agenda, it’s you. He counts..."

March 5, 2014 Arts Post by Raoul Hernandez

Fat Albert

Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.

"...Omari Grandberry, Marques Houston, Keith Robinson, Jermaine Williams and Bill Cosby. If Bill Cosby really wants to challenge the..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

“Beth Consetta Rubel: Higher Learning: Educational Toys”

Rubel’s solo show is cutting when it comes to Bill Cosby and Rachel Dolezal, but it also explores the complexities of race

"...sits on a gray dresser. Onscreen is the familiar Cosby family living room, along with Bill Cosby himself. He..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Play Misty for Me

Did you know Bill Cosby is an accomplished jazz drummer?

"...Since 2008, every time Bill Cosby flies into Austin – which thankfully is often..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Spy

"...Phill Lewis. Fans of the mid-sixties CBS series starring Bill Cosby as the Rhodes Scholar-cum-secret agent Alexander Scott and..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonderfulness

Bill Cosby on Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, and Willie Weed

"...on this same forum in 2009, comedy records by Bill Cosby, George Carlin, and Cheech & Chong were as..."

Oct. 24, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...Bonnie Raitt sharing the stage, and from a clowning Bill Cosby (who guest-schticks alongside Ruth Brown, Mavis Staples, and..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Remembering Madeline Kahn; also, what's on the tube for the holidays

"...television work included the voice of Mrs. Shapiro on Bill Cosby's new animated series, Little Bill (Nickelodeon) and as..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Trail of Crumbs Down Memory Lane: 'Pioneers of Television'

Season four debuts tonight on KLRU with 'Standup to Sitcom'

"...Bill Cosby, however, is the man who made the comic..."

April 15, 2014 Screens Post by Anne Harris

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...AC: Bill Cosby?..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Fall Arts Issue Critics Picks

From the arts harvest, our critics pluck choice treats

"...28-Oct. 27, Thu.-Sat. The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo. www.physicalplant.org Bill Cosby..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mothers & Fathers

Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at Bass Concert Hall with a real cell phone call to an audience member's offspring among two PAC-shaking hours of familial riffing via the vantage point of parent- and grandparenthood

"...a cellular prop last month at the Paramount Theatre, Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at the Bass Concert..."

May 13, 2005 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer

The shocking history of America's sleaziest tabloid

"...Hart’s extramarital dalliance, O.J. Simpson’s explosive murder trial, and Bill Clinton’s White House sex scandal, the National Enquirer achieved..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

LBJ Swings Like the Pendulum Do

For a fun Sixties flashback – sans acid – see the LBJ Library's 'Signs of the Times: Life in the Swingin' Sixties'

"...club and watch footage of Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters, Bill Cosby, and a boyish Woody Allen doing an amazingly..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bonus Tracks

"...BILL HICKS..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

SXSW Comedy 2014 Picks

"...An Evening With Bill Cosby No room in the world can cage the..."

March 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends

"...exasperates Truman Capote with constant interruptions, while a young Bill Cosby upstages an appreciative Jack Benny with a dazzling..."

March 24, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Danny Deckchair

Aussie import is sweet but as emotionally ethereal as a Splenda meringue.

"...it also has all the wicked emotional punch of Bill Cosby on Quaaludes...."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flip the Switch

"...reply. Long pause. Long pause. Instead of an answer, Bill Cosby is all that comes to mind, his classic..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Comedy Review: A Good Trip With Shane Mauss

Mauss lights up Hideout with cleverness and faux-slacker charm

"...a lone stool. I hesitate to compare him to Bill Cosby, but his expert crowd control, stage-work and incredible..."

March 15, 2017 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Postscripts

What's selling in several area stores and the local literary news

"...in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. (Pomegranate, $65) and Holler If You Hear Me:..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Dancing About Architecture

The Jr. Files

"...The August 22 issue of Billboard magazine was another Austincentric issue, with articles on Los..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Happy Feet!

'You listening to the ooold school – KUTX, nine-eight-nine!'

"...got you in trouble") from the great Chicago personality Bill "Butterball" Crane, whose quick delivery and constant corner-turning ignited..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Austin Film Festival Review: Scandalous

The true story behind The National Enquirer's smear machine

"...Hart’s extramarital dalliance, O.J. Simpson’s explosive murder trial, and Bill Clinton’s White House sex scandal, the National Enquirer achieved..."

Oct. 29, 2019 Screens Post by Steve Davis

Chris Cubas: Hashtag, You're It

#PointsMe champion returns to take on the Moontower crowds

"...do whatever I wanted. My first joke was a "Bill Cosby's a rapist" joke, and they didn't just let..."

April 24, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: A Plethora of Pride

Gay Pride, Asleep at Wheel 'Then and Now,' and David Yow confirms he's a Dick

"...booking duties two years ago and began filling the bill with cutting edge artists like bounce diva Katey Red,..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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