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Chasing Cosby

Los Angeles Times

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bill Cosby spends much of his childhood in a North Philadelphia housing project. He ends up getting his start in an unexpected way, quickly rising to fame. Decades later, one morning in January 2005, Andrea Constand wakes up sobbing from a nightmare.

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0:00.0	Chasing Cosby contains descriptions of violence, sexual content, and language that is not suitable for every audience.
0:07.0	Please be advised.
0:12.1	It's 1991, and Bill Cosby is one of the most famous and powerful actors and entertainers in the world.
0:19.3	In November, he's on the Larry King Live show, promoting a brand new autobiography called Childhood and sharingers in the world. In November, he's on the Larry King Live show
0:21.4	promoting a brand new autobiography called Childhood
0:23.9	and sharing some of his favorite jokes.
0:26.8	The old story was, if you took a little drop,
0:29.6	it was on the head of a pin.
0:32.6	And you put it in the drink.
0:33.8	Coca-Cola, it doesn't make it.
0:35.7	And the girl would drink it and... She's your...
0:37.9	Hello, America.
0:40.2	Cosby's doing his Spanish fly routine for Larry King, one which he's performed on stage since the 1960s.
0:47.3	In it, Cosby jokes with the audience about slipping an aphrodisiac into a woman's drink,
0:52.5	a drug that renders her helpless after a couple of sips.
0:55.9	You know anything about Spanish fly? No, tell me about it. Well, there's this girl,
0:59.4	Crazy Mary. You put some in her drink, man. She goes, ah, ha, ha. Go to a party. See five girls
1:05.3	standing alone. Boy, I had a whole jug of Spanish fly, light that corner up over there.
1:12.1	I didn't know anything about the Spanish fly routine back then,
1:15.4	and the media didn't pay much attention to it either.
1:20.4	By the time he was telling the joke to Larry King,
1:23.4	Cosby had written best-selling books about parenthood
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