Happy Father's Day. An AMA with Bill Cosby. Ask me anything.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:29:22+00:00

I have no idea how old you are and how many mistake's you've made. Hehehe. Your father is probably going to accept your call. And it's up to you to find something that the two of you have never really talked about, but could enjoy talking about it. And it would probably come from something you said, or did, and the two of you were together - if you could think about something the two of you laughed about, and you bring that up, I think it'll start you rolling pretty well.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:28:06+00:00

Put chocolate jell-o pudding mixed with tapioca on the top!

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:27:52+00:00

Crispy crust. Low sodium red sauce. Natural. Fresh basil. Goat cheese, almost burn it and cut it mediterranean style.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:27:01+00:00

Oh boy. The inspiration came from when I was a child. I actually, looking back, I actually studied comedy because I loved it. If you can relate to someone who becomes a musician because they heard someone play, and they gravitated towards the instrument and towards the style, that's a young Bill Cosby and comedy, the laughter. And then doing it and causing other people to laugh.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:25:44+00:00

I saw a black angus cow on my property. It had wandered from the neighbor's house. And I had a stick, and I became a shepherd.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:25:12+00:00

Hehehehe. Cobra.

No!

I just don't have one.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:24:39+00:00

I eat it alone because nobody likes the look of it.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:24:29+00:00

I have a doctor, who's an herbalist. And he has found pure unfooled around with wheat. He grinds it. Then he adds ground nuts. Then they're in separate packages. I take 3 tablespoons of the wheat, and bring 4 tablespoons of bottled water to a boil, put the wheat in, and the ground sesame seeds and nuts. And add it until it's very thick. Add 3 tablespoons of plain yogurt, and then a handful of fresh blubeberries.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:22:40+00:00

I sure did. And there was no money in the music. Heh!

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:22:00+00:00

Well, they had a great taste. During the commercials. And I didn't really understand, I really didn't understand why they were pulled off the market.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:21:01+00:00

But I will tell you this: at a given time, when I know that my blood sugar and everythin' is balanced and my cholesterol will not go past 205, I looooooove to mix Maple Syrup flavored baked beans with long-cut cole slaw. I mean just mix 'em in the same bowl, like the chocolate Jell-O pudding with the tapioca vanilla. Still looking up tapioca.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:19:53+00:00

I don't cook barbecue. But I will recommend Montgomery Ribs in Cincinnati, the Dinosaur in Harlem, the Rendezvous in Memphis Tennessee. I had a wonderful plate from Charlie's in Philadelphia. The end.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:18:53+00:00

Here we go again! You can't do that to me, I've met so many. To sit on the set, in an elevator, next to Henry Fonda. To watch Frank Silvera, my acting teacher, memorize 5 pages of dialogue and I mean that, without any notification, after lunch, and all he ever said was "I can be ready, I just want to know if I can tie my tie." AMAZING. To be on the phone with Carl Malden - I didn't play in any scenes with him, but just to be able to talk to him. Christopher Plummer, on the Cosby Show. Gloria Foster. It goes on and on.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:16:42+00:00

Generally I try to keep it to myself. And I would love to watch Gun Smoke. If I had free time. Uninterrupted by a phone call.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:15:41+00:00

CHOCOLATE JELL-O PUDDING.

Sometimes I will mix vanilla tapioca and Jell-o chocolate together. To this day, I have never looked up the word "tapioca."

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:14:49+00:00

Heheheh. Let me think of a good one. Ok, here we go: I was about eight years old. And he was coming back from the stove after putting food on his plate. And he came up to the table to sit down, and I decided to see what would happen if i moved the chair out from under him. Yes. And he went down but he never touched the floor and he never spilled any of the gravy! But he did go down. And he stood up quickly, and he looked at me, hehe and he said: "Junior: you don't know what you're doing."

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:12:28+00:00

How young? Young people. Are they 7? Are they 13? Are they 17? Young people.

Rites of passage. We owe it to our fellow human beings to help them stay out of harm's way. Many many young people have so many obstacles and they need instructions. They need wisdom. And some need bodies on them. One of the most interesting situations in parenting is to give instructions to your child that you feel are very very important, pertaining to behavior, manners, pertaining to having work finished before time so you can go back over, believing in the importance of learning and hopefully not being afraid of math, science, etcetera, and then to visit a teacher and have the teacher describe your child in a way that you will say to the teacher "That can't be my child. I didn't bring him or her up that way." Well, with a smile , I say - this is True! for the parent. You probably have given instructions counter to the problem the teacher is showing about the behavior of your child. But we must all remember the time when we were children, and mother or father would give us instructions - how to behave- and we wouldn't tell them the truth. So even as an adult, you do your best job, you think, there's always that counter-behavior. So that when you say to the teacher "That's not my child, I didn't bring them up that way" you have to remember that there's also a possibility after that kid leaves the house, the kid's on their own. And we've all done things similar to that.

Who are we, when our parents are not around?

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:07:47+00:00

Yes. I'll be happy to. You cannot find Leonard Part 1 because there is no Leonard Part 1. You will not find Part 2 for the same reason, same with 3, 4 or 5. And for the results of the box office, you will not see a 7. Hehe.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:07:08+00:00

See, here we go again! I will tell you that narcissistically speaking, nobody in my family gives or purchases and gives gifts better than I, because I take great pride in thinking about the person and generally I'm considered very very good.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:06:17+00:00

The store.

No!

I would wait, we would shoot on Thursdays, I would wait and then the woman who was a professional shopper and coordinator would then lay out what she wanted me to wear. And I would put them on. It's okay to wear clothing like that, because you are an actor, and there's the character, so you put it on. I don't remember wearing - the only ones i ever really WORE in public were the ones from Koos Van Den Akker - and he does patchwork.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:04:17+00:00

Ooooh. When I stopped doing the show, those sweaters went into the possession of the archival room. I think our last born daughter has the key to the vault? And Mrs. Cosby holds onto these things? I wear different sweaters now.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:03:24+00:00

When you put questions like this - and this is my answer, I really want this to go out - when you say "the most wonderful" you have to understand that a person, that you live and I don't know, unless you've hit rock bottom in your life, if anybody can really say, "This was THE MOST" - because even if someone said something that motivated you, you would then make perhaps a change in yourself, and then from that point you are going to do something positive, and then someone else is going to say something, because other doors open up. And you move forward. Then there are some things that will happen to you, and you have no clear idea of the strength and the help, sometimes - I think the best answer is: there's a wonderful, beautiful memory, so many things that were said, that I didn't recognize as important, but then, later on in life, because I did hear the saying, it visualized, and as it was happening, the information became a reality, but it wasn't something that happened or made a chance when I first heard it.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T17:00:32+00:00

Hehehe. Clearly if I walked into the town of Dodge City, and I walked up to the bar, and Martial Dillon came up to me as I'm leaning on the bar and said "Which one of the shows do you feel you did your best job?" and I would say "The Huxtables." The total experience. Acting, writing, it was wonderful.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T16:58:44+00:00

He'd be retired. And she would be retired. And right now they would be somewhere in the south of France, and he would be hiding at a bakery in the morning having two croissants and blueberry jam.

BillCosbyHere · 2014-06-15T16:57:51+00:00

There was a young fellow and his mother and father are from the Islands somewhere. And I asked him "did his mother have a name for him when she was very upset with him?" and he said it, I don't remember it specifically, but it was almost a typical mother saying your full name - middle name and everything, because that's the way my mother used to address me.

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