ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Started as a stand-up working the comedy clubs and landed a role in the 1960s TV show I Spy. This was followed by his own series, The Bill Cosby Show, in the late 1960s. He also was on The Electric Company (a PBS Kids show) and produced the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoon show. In addition he acted in films and in the 1980s, produced and starred in a groundbreaking sitcom, The Cosby Show, which depicted upper middle-class African Americans.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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