call them 'punishments.'
After the 'punishment' Cosby said he
was revived to find his mother rubbing
butter on his forehead.
It wasn't until as an adult, Cosby said,
that the topic of that day came up while
having dinner with his parents. He asked
his mother why she used butter to revive
him. She said she just felt like she needed
to be rubbing him with something, Cosby
said. Then Cosby recalled his father jump
ing in with, "You're the one who sent me
up there to kill him." Mothers; innocent
sympathizers or guilty conspirators, you
be the judge.
Just as the immortal Cliff Huxtable was
the father of five children, so too is Cosby
the father of five: four daughters, Erika,
Erinn, Ensa and Evin, and one son, Ennis,
who is deceased.
During his performance Cosby enter
tained the crowd with a Father's Day rou
tine reminicent of the episode from The
Cosby Show" of the same topic.
"Everybody remembers Mother s Day,
Cosby argued. They make the reservations
and buy the flowers way in advance, he
said. But when Father's Day rolls around,
everyone says, "Oh sh*t, really?" He called
it the worst holiday of the year and recalled
some of the poorly-thought-out gifts he has
received from his children, the infamous
light up Miami tie among them, no doubt.
Beginning with his television debut m
1965 when he broke the color line to co-star
with Robert Culpe in "I Spy," Bill Cosby
has remained a mainstay in the entertain
ment world.
Can you believe it's been eight years?
Eight years since Cliff and Claire danced
out into the audience during the last
episode of "The Cosby Show" and danced
out of American living rooms. They
danced back in four years later on the sit
com "Cosby," only to leave yet again, four
years after the show's debut.
Never fear, Cosby has found a new way
to positively influence the lives of
America's youth. This time, he s catching
them at a slightly younger age with his
daily animated series, "Little Bill, which
airs on Nickelodeon and Saturday morn
ings on CBS.
A new millennium has been ushered in
and with it came a lot of unfamiliar nega
tivity: the disintegration of family values
on television, and very recently, the loom
ing threat of war.
Though it's a new millennium, refres
ingly. Bill Cosby is still the same. Some
things should never change. Bill Cosby is
definately one of those things.