Comedian Bill Cosby plans to return to the stage next year.
During a rather surprising interview that he gave to the radio show "WGH Talk" to presenter Scott Spears, Cosby answered in the affirmative to the question of whether 2023 would be the year he would return to the stage and perform stand-up comedy shows.
Cosby was convicted in 2018 of sexual assault, and was imprisoned following the conviction, but in June 2021 the judge overturned his conviction and he was released from prison after about three years.
Cosby is escorted by police officers to a prison after his sentencing, photo: AP
"When I get out of this, I feel like I can come out and be the Bill Cosby that my audience knows," Cosby told Spears.
As you remember, the 85-year-old actor was convicted in a court in Pennsylvania in April 2018 of sexual assault.
He was released in 2021 after serving three years in prison, due to the cancellation of the conviction by a higher court.
As mentioned, when Cosby was asked about the possibility of going on a solo tour in the coming year, he said: "Yes. Yes, because there is so much fun in the storytelling evenings that I hold. Years ago, maybe a decade, I found it better to tell this after I wrote it."
Five claim that the actor raped them or had forced sex with them, a worker cleans Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after it was defaced, photo: AFP
Cosby's representative, Andrew Wyatt, confirmed to "Variety" magazine that the comedian has marked the upcoming spring and summer months as optional for him to go on tour.
Earlier this week, five women filed a new lawsuit against Cosby and the NBC television network.
The five claim that the actor raped them or had forced sex with them.
Four of the five complainants claim that the incidents took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
As we know, these were the peak years of Cosby, who was then considered a respected comedian as well as the popular sitcom "The Cosby Show".
The fifth case is different from the others, in that according to the complainant, who is a senior executive in Hollywood, it happened in 1969.
Wyatt called the new lawsuits "reprehensible" and said that the five women are part of a "parade of complainants" that surfaced between 2014 and 2016.
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