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Corporate event planners select Celebrity Direct Inc.
to book Bill Cosby for corporate "in-concert" performances. To check his availability,
contact our national booking office at 212 541-3770.
| Bill Cosby
is one of the most influential
performers of the second half of the
20th century. His live appearances have
been selling out nightclubs, concert
halls and arenas across the country for
four decades; he has had an unparalleled
career in television; he is the
best-selling comedian of all time on
records; his blockbuster books have sold
millions of copies; and his generous
support of numerous charities,
particularly in the field of education,
have endowed many Americans with the
gift of hope and learning. However, it
is through his groundbreaking
appearances on television, particularly
in two landmark series each of which
defined an American decade, that Bill
Cosby has most decisively touched the
lives of millions of Americans. In the
1960s, "I Spy" broke the racial barrier
in television by featuring Cosby as the
first-ever black lead of a weekly
dramatic series. In the 1980s, Cosby
returned to television with a show that
Coretta Scott King described as "the
most positive portrayal of black family
life that has ever been broadcast." "The
Cosby Show" enjoyed years of number-one
ratings and nearly unanimous critical
praise. The show single-handedly
resurrected the moribund sitcom genre
and helped lift NBC from last place to
first in the ratings by portraying,
according to Newsweek, a
diametrically opposite side of the black
experience than what had previously been
seen on television: "a tightly nuclear,
upscale family coping with the same
irritations and misunderstandings that
afflict their white counterparts."
Cosby's TV clan was the very model of a
strong, close-knit, parent-dominated
unit. "The fact that the family is
black, without making a particular point
of it," reported Time magazine,
"is an encouraging sign of maturity in
matters of race." |
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