Invoice Cosby says he’s planning 2023 comedy tour

(NEXSTAR) — Comic Invoice Cosby says he’s planning a comeback comedy tour in 2023, over a 12 months after his sexual assault conviction was overturned — and weeks after 5 ladies filed a new sexual assault lawsuit towards the fallen star.

In a Dec. 28 interview on “WGH Talk,” the 85-year-old Cosby informed host Scott Spears he’d be returning to the stage, “as a result of there’s a lot enjoyable available on this storytelling that I do.” Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s consultant, confirmed to Variety that Cosby is “taking a look at spring/summer time” for the potential tour.

The previous “The Cosby Present” star has been out of jail since June 2021, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket overturned his 2018 conviction within the drugging and sexual assault of Temple College worker Andrea Constand.

The responsible verdict was overturned as a consequence of a technicality whereby Cosby had been promised by a then-district lawyer he may testify actually with out self-incrimination. In response to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket, a later district lawyer didn’t uphold this settlement and Cosby’s testimony was used towards him.

Whereas Cosby has saved a low profile within the 12 months since, the emergence of the brand new lawsuit earlier this month refocused consideration on the actor. As reported by Associated Press, the lawsuit alleges Cosby abused the 5 plaintiffs between the Sixties and Nineteen Nineties.

Over the summer time, a Los Angeles County jury dominated that Cosby sexually abused Judy Huth on the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 years previous in 1975. Whereas Cosby denies the allegation and Wyatt mentioned at the moment that they’d enchantment the decision, Cosby was ordered to pay Huth $500,000.

Cosby informed Spears on Dec. 28 he feels he’ll be capable to “be the Invoice Cosby that my viewers is aware of me to be” going into the tour.

The Related Press contributed to this report.