Who Are the Disgraced Comedians Brothers?
Who are Bill Cosby’s siblings? Get info on the comedian’s family life as ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ tracks his upward thrust to popularity and fall from grace.
Who are Bill Cosby’s siblings? The family life of the comedian is now in the highlight with the Showtime docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby, which chronicles how the Cosby Show celebrity rose to status after which fell from grace amid numerous accusations of sexual attack.
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With audience curious about Bill Cosby’s life story, we’ve executed some digging on the 84-year-old’s upbringing and how his early family existence influenced his personal and professional trajectory.
Bill Cosby is the oldest of 4 brothers.
As The Spokesman-Review reported in 1997, Bill grew up in a small rental in Philadelphia, Penn., the son of William and Anna Cosby and the oldest of four brothers. One of his brothers, James, died at age 6 of rheumatic fever. After that tragedy, Bill’s father — who had labored quite a lot of jobs to make stronger the family — left to serve in the Navy. And sooner or later, William and Anna divorced, leaving Bill as the guy of the family.
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“The factor that always became me round and kept me from taking a pistol and conserving up a shop or jumping in and beating some previous individual on the side road was once that I may just pass to jail, and this is able to carry a large amount of disgrace on my mother,” Cosby mentioned as soon as, according to the newspaper.
Another of Bill’s brothers, Russell Cosby, impressed Bill’s 1968 comedy album To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With. In naming that unlock the largest comedy album of all time in 2011, Spin Magazine observed that “the title monologue, a theatrical, just about 30 minutes memory of Bill and his younger brother enjoying and squabbling in bed, then fearfully suffering to offer a united entrance when their father storms in to impose self-discipline, is stand-up comedy’s masterpiece.”
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Russell also impressed a character — named Russell but voiced by way of Jan Crawford — in Bill’s animated collection Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. And when that show inspired the 2004 movie adaptation Fat Albert, with Kenan Thompson in the identify function, both Russell and Bill performed themselves.
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Fans indicate that ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ husband Robert Cosby isn't Bill’s brother.
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“Robert C. Cosby isn't Bill Cosby’s brother. That is all,” that fan wrote on Dec. 16. “I keep seeing this arise, and I had to do a complete family tree for freakin’ Bill Cosby to prove it. Bill Cosby’s brother is Robert Leroy Cosby, born c. 1947, raised in Germantown, Philadelphia, Penn. Mary’s husband is Robert C. Cosby, born [in] 1952 in Indianapolis, Ind.”
Another particular person wrote: “It’s wild that people don’t remember that other folks may have the identical closing title and now not be comparable.”
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