Bill Cosby Punch Smothers Tommy Smothers (Family TV Icon Decks Folk Singer over Civil Rights Slur)

New York Post ^ | April 20, 2003 | Richard Johnson

[ewing]

Bill Cosby wasn't always the affable family man that he plays on television.

Angered by taunts that he didn't do enough in the civil rights struggle, Cosby once sucker punched Tommy Smothers according to Gerald Nachmans new book.

Smothers recalls Cosby told him, 'Maybe I will give you a knock upside the head one of these days. I said, 'Yeah, go ahead and give it a try.'

A few weeks later Cosby made good on his threat when the two ran into each other at one of Hugh Hefners Playboy Mansion parties.

'I should have never turned my back on him,' Smothers said. 'He didn't have the b*lls to do it when I was looking.'

'He slipped behind Hugh Hefner and sucker punched me. He hit me right in the head with his fist.'

Smothers went down, the book reports, at which point Cosby began shouting 'Come onm I will kick your *ss!.'

[ewing]

Cosby was also sleeping with his mistress all that same time he was going to the Plabyoy parties (go figure)..what is this -goofy celebrity boxing day?

[ewing]

hold muh beer and watch two old has been stars fight!

[realpatriot71]

< voice of homer simpson > Mmmmmmmm, playboy mansion < /voice of homer simpson >

I got to school with a girl who used to work there, and I keep working on her to get me in - for scientific purposes, only, of course . . .

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Smothers went down, the book reports, at which point Cosby began shouting 'Come onm I will kick your *ss!.'

That's just the pudding pops talking.

[katana]

I've always really liked Bill Cosby and now that I've found out that he cold cocked one of the Smothers Brothers, I like him even more. Wish they had that on film cause I've wanted to deck either one of those self-important leftist pr***s since, oh, around 1968.

[BlkConserv]

I loved Bill Cosby back in his hard-core, pimping days.

Especially in that movie with him and Sidney Poitier.

[Search4Truth]

Where's the part about Smothers needing 6 Playmates to keep him off of Belafonte? :)

[Search4Truth]

LOL, Belafonta. I meant Cosby.

[bmwcyle]

LOL

Oh that Sugar

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

There were two: Uptown Saturday Night & Let's Do It Again.

Yeah, I remember when Cosby was baaaad.

[1Old Pro]

Tommy Smothers, he's on a great career track.

And Bill Cosby...he should have worried more about parenting and being a husband and father and less about Playboy parties.

[skeeter]

The thought of a washed up punk like Tommy Smothers, who thinks the 60's era dialectic is cutting edge, getting coldcocked is mighty appealing.

I'm just sorry a wacko like Cosby got to be the one to do the smackin.

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump for later reading.

[martin_fierro]

That's just the pudding pops talking.

LOL!

[Blue Scourge]

Eat my pudding pops Biatch....

[CounterCounterCulture]

Tommy: "I fell into a vat of chocolate. I fell into a vat of chocolate. I fell into a vat of chocolate. Ya dee do da Ya dee do da day" "

Dick: "What did you do when you fell into the vat of chocolate?"

Tommy: "I yelled 'FIRE!' when I fell into the vat of chocolate."

Dick: "Why did you yell 'fire' when you fell into the vat of chocolate?"

Tommy: "Because no one would have come if I yelled 'Chocolate!'"

Apparently it was a vat of chocolate for da puddin' pops.

[mhking]

he should have worried more about parenting and being a husband and father and less about Playboy parties.

This would have been (unless I'm miscounting) before his marriage....

[pupdog]

Wow, I wonder if I'm the only person here who likes the Smothers. Some of their old routines were howlingly funny.

"The reason you got the story wrong is because there are no pumas in America."
* long pause *
(meekly) "...well...we accept everyone in America."

[mhking]

Yet another two-fer....

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[garyhope]

Cosby's wife hates white people.