Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937. He was the oldest of four boys. He had three brothers, and their names were: James, Russell, and Robert. His father ran away near Christmas time when he was very young and he had to get a job to help support the family. In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him and made it easier to learn. He said that she made him what he is today.After a couple years he went back to his old school and even though his grades were dropping he still kept it together. Bill was starting to look up to comedians on the radio and the TV. They were comedians like Sam Levenson, Sid Caesar, and Carl Reiner. Even though his grades were poor in junior high, when he took the standardized tests he was accepted to Central High School, which was a school for all the gifted children in Pennsylvania. Now being six feet, he was on the high school football team. But in the first week of football he broke his arm. Since there were few blacks in the sch
In 1963 Bill Cosby was making 500 dollars for one live performance. He soon signed a contract with Warner Brothers to make a comedy album called, ABill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow . . . Right!@ This album was a very big success. He was in Washington for comedy, and one day he was in a bowling alley and met a girl named Camille Hanks. She was a psychology student at the university of Maryland. They fell in love. They got married fast in only a couple of months. He was now making 1,000 dollars for a single performance. There are many fine qualities that I admire about Bill Cosby. Some of these things are Bill Cosby=s sense of humor the which I admire the most of all hsi good qualities. He is very funny and I want to be like him some day. I also admire that Bill Cosby kept on trying at school and never gave up. Even though he didn=t finish school the first time, he still went back until he was done. Finally I admire the fact that Bill Cosby and his wife donate money to charities and give money to schools and other organizations. ool and he was slightly a target of biggotous remarks he went back to getting attention by clowning around in class again. He was later sent to Germantown Highschool where all his neighborhood friends went. He was back with his friends but his grades started to drop. He was left back twice. He was also too old to participate in the city track meets (which he could easily win). Bill dropped out of high school. He went to be a shoemaker=s helper, but the shoemaker didn't like it when he nailed the ladies heels onto the mens shoes! Bill Cosby made a couple of movies too. They were not big hits and some totally crashed in the box office. They were, AMan and Boy,@ AHicky and Boggs,@ and AThe Lilies of the Field.@ There were three movies that Cosby was in that were hits. They were, AUptown Saturday Nights,@ ALets Do It Again,@ and AA Piece of the Action.@ He also went back to college at the
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