At least one venue has said that it will not support an upcoming comedy tour from recently-freed Bill Cosby.
The Comedy Cellar in New York City has expressed that it has zero interest in hosting Cosby, with owner Noam Dworman telling TMZ his audiences wouldn’t support a show from the 83-year-old comic-actor-producer.
The club allowed comedians Louis CK and Aziz Ansari to perform on the legendary Greenwich Village stage after they both were hit with sexual misconduct allegations — not criminal charges. Cosby, whose 2018 indecent assault conviction was overturned in June by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, won’t be given the same opportunity.
Cosby’s longtime spokesman told TMZ, “That’s one club owner, and in the words of the king of R&B, Bobby Brown, it’s his prerogative to do what he wants to do.”
Wyatt has said that “the world wants to see Mr. Cosby.” In addition to comedy clubs across the nation, Cosby will also make appearances at prisons and schools to talk to people about “being better citizens and curbing violence.”
