Bill Cosby reportedly talking to promoters about potential comedy tour

Just days after his release from prison, Bill Cosby is presently eyeing a return to stand-up comedy.

In accordance to the Hollywood Reporter, the newly freed comedian’s spokesperson Andrew Wyatt advised reporters Thursday that Cosby has been “been speaking to a selection of promoters and comedy club owners” and “is just psyched the way the globe is welcoming him back”.

“A number of promoters have called. Comedy club owners have named. People want to see him,” Wyatt instructed Within Edition.

The pivot to comedy arrives just times after 83-yr-outdated Cosby was freed from jail just after serving extra than two years of a three-to-10-12 months sentence pursuing dozens of gals accusing him of rape and sexual assault.

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On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket made a decision that a “non-prosecution agreement” the actor struck with a past prosecutor must have prevented him from currently being billed in a scenario that stemmed from a 2004 face with accuser Andrea Constand.

Gloria Allred, the powerful legal professional who represented 33 gals who spoke out towards the disgraced comic, called the court’s decision to overturn his conviction “devastating.”

“This final decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket nowadays to overturn the conviction of Monthly bill Cosby need to be devastating for Bill Cosby’s accusers,” Allred explained in a assertion, in accordance to Assortment. “… Regardless of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s determination, this was an vital fight for justice and even although the court docket overturned the conviction on technological grounds, it did not vindicate Monthly bill Cosby’s conduct and must not be interpreted as a assertion or a discovering that he did not interact in the acts of which he has been accused.”

Cosby in 2018 was convicted of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand, who was operating for Temple University’s women’s basketball staff at the time of the 2004 assault. The a few ensuing expenses for which Cosby was afterwards located responsible were handed down in late 2015. Cosby was ultimately billed mere times right before the statute of constraints ran out, with excerpts from a civil situation deposition staying applied from the disgraced comic through the demo.