Bill Cosby Plans Comedy Tour in 2023

Invoice Cosby is plotting a doable return to the stand-up comedy stage in 2023, the comic and former TV star revealed throughout a Dec. 28 radio interview with WGH Discuss host Scott Spears.

The announcement comes following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket’s resolution in June 2021 to overturn Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and his subsequent launch from jail.

“After I come out of this, I really feel that I will carry out and be the Invoice Cosby that my viewers is aware of me to be,” the 85-year-old comic advised Spears.

After being requested by Spears if he would possibly tour within the new yr, the onetime Cosby Present star replied, “Sure. Sure, as a result of there’s a lot enjoyable available on this storytelling that I do. Years in the past, possibly 10 years in the past, I discovered it was higher to say it after I write it.”

A rep for Cosby confirmed to our sister web site Selection that the comic is eyeing a “spring/summer season” begin for his tour.

As beforehand reported, in June 2021, Pennsylvania’s highest court docket overturned Cosby’s sexual assault conviction after it discovered that an settlement with a earlier prosecutor prevented him from being charged within the case, in response to the Related Press. Cosby was launched from jail later the identical day.

Cosby released a statement following the choice: “I’ve by no means modified my stance nor my story. I’ve all the time maintained my innocence. Thanks to all my followers, supporters and mates who stood by me by way of this ordeal. Particular due to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket for upholding the rule of legislation.”

The overturned conviction got here greater than three years after Cosby was first convicted in April 2018. Later that yr, he was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in jail for 3 counts of sexual assault. He was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault after being accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his Philadelphia house in 2004, and was registered for all times as a sexually violent predator.

Cosby is presently dealing with a brand new sexual assault lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month towards him and NBC by 5 ladies underneath a New York state legislation that quickly suspends the statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims.