Bill Cosby

Interview: Raven-Symoné of 'College Road Trip'

Interview: Raven-Symoné of 'College Road Trip'

Bill Cosby Joins "Why We Laugh"

Birthday: July 12, 1937

African-American entertainer Bill Cosby, in his own words, "started out as a child," the son of an eight-dollars-a-day maid and an absentee father. A product of grinding poverty, Cosby escaped his rundown Philadelphia neighborhood by dropping out of high school and joining the navy. He earned his diploma via correspondence course, then earned a football scholarship to Temple University. ...more