15 Things You Didn't Know About "The Cosby Show" (2024)

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What was unique about The Cosby Show? ›

Although the cast and characters were predominantly African-American, the program was unusual in that issues of race were rarely mentioned when compared to other situation comedies of the time with predominantly African-American casts, such as The Jeffersons.

After announcing her pregnancy during the run of A Different World, Bonet left the series. She returned to The Cosby Show the following year, but was fired in April 1991 because of "creative differences". After The Cosby Show, Bonet appeared in direct-to-video releases and made-for-television movies.

Sondra was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child (e.g. a college graduate). Sabrina LeBeauf almost missed out on the role because she is only 10 years younger (b. 1958) than Phylicia Rashad (b. 1948), who played her mother in the series.

1965–1996 allegations

In the early 1980s, Joan Tarshis told freelance reporter John Milward about an alleged sexual assault by Cosby. Milward did not write about the allegations. In 1996, Playboy Playmate Victoria Valentino gave a videotaped interview in which she made sexual assault allegations against Cosby.

In this episode, Olivia refers to Denise as mommy. Usually, she calls her Denise. Although not credited, one of the other girls in Olivia's preschool class is played by Zoe Kravitz, the real-life daughter of Lisa Bonet and her husband, Lenny Kravitz.

It can be assumed that Sondra and Denise shared a bedroom before Sondra started college (they might have mentioned this toward the beginning of the series, in fact), but it's never been explained why Theo has two twin beds instead of one double, queen, or king bed in his bedroom (though let's be real, Cliff and Clair ...

Upper-middle-class careers in medicine and law are where the Huxtables made most of their money but their real net worth comes was holding on to that Brooklyn Heights brownstone. It's worth at least $5 million now. Plus they got a lot of tax breaks from Cliff running his OB/GYN business out of the basem*nt.

Cosby claims that he fired Bonet because The Cosby Show's material was no longer challenging for her, blaming himself for her character lacking development: "it's not funny to have someone 21 acting like she's still about 12." However, he commended Bonet's acting talent.

“They drifted apart and wanted different things.” In a separate report from People, a source said they still care “deeply about each other”. On January 13 the former couple shared the news via a joint statement on Momoa's social media accounts. “We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times…

An only child, Momoa was born on August 1, 1979, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Coni (Lemke), a photographer, and Joseph Momoa, a painter. His father is Native Hawaiian, while his mother is of German, Irish, and Pawnee ancestry.

Was Claire pregnant on The Cosby Show? ›

Rashad became pregnant with their child during season three. To avoid having to add an infant to the main cast, extreme tactics were used to conceal the actress' pregnancy onscreen, such as confining Clair to bed or having her be out of town for several episodes at a time.

She became engaged in the final season to Dabnis Brickey, a man in his late twenties. Dabnis is the head of maintenance at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where Vanessa enrolls. However, Vanessa realizes that she is not ready to get married, and they break off the engagement.

Lisa Bonet - After starring as the quirky and stylish Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and A Different World for a combined seven seasons, Lisa Bonet went on to star in the films Enemy of the State, High Fidelity and Biker Boyz plus the TV series Life on Mars.

Bonet would continue to appear on the show regularly over the next several episodes until Cosby fired her altogether at the end of season seven, officially citing "creative differences".

She told Today: "All I can speak to is the man I know and I love the fact that he has been such an example [and] you can't take away from the great that he has done, the millions and millions of dollars he has given back to colleges and education, and just what he did with The Cosby Show and how groundbreaking that was ...

Citing a desire for privacy, the actress formerly known as Lisa Bonet (and born as Lisa Boney) adopted the foreign-sounding moniker. Confusingly, she continued to be credited as Lisa Bonet in subsequent acting roles, but her penchant for crazy names was unstoppable.

The nine women — Dickinson, Lise-Lotte Lublin, Janice Baker Kinney, Lili Bernard, Heidi Thomas, Linda Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Cooper, Pam Joy Abeyta, and Angela Leslie — also claim that Cosby "used his enormous power, fame, and prestige, and claimed interest in helping them and/or their careers as a pretense to isolate ...