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W. Kamau Bell is talking about Bill Cosby — and it’s not easy

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W. Kamau Bell’s docuseries We Need to Talk About Cosby premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend. The four-part series examines the complicated legacy of the actor-comedian. Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018 and served more than two years in prison before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction last summer.

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The Mercury news

W. Kamau Bell is talking about Bill Cosby — and it’s not easy

Early on, W. Kamau Bell girded for the response, the vitriolic backlash over his thought-provoking and hard-hitting four-part docuseries, “We Need to Talk About Cosby.” The unflinching look at the messy entirety of Bill Cosby’s infamous life and influential career received a world premiere Jan. 22 at the Sundance Film Festival and will drop Sunday, Jan. 30, on Showtime.The East Bay resident, intrepid filmmaker, no-BS CNN commentator and standup …

2 years ago·San Jose, United States

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RollingStone

Bill Cosby Responds to 'PR Hack' W. Kamau Bell on Damning New Series

Bill Cosby has responded to the release of We Need to Talk About Cosby, W. Kamau Bell’s docuseries, which was screened at Sundance Film Festival last weekend. Over the course of four parts, Bell examines the complicated legacy of the actor-comedian, who was simultaneously known as “America’s Dad” as well as an accused sexual predator of upwards of 60 women.“Mr. Cosby has spent more than 50 years standing with the excluded; made it possible for s…

2 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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Vanity Fair

W. Kamau Bell Is Terrified for People to See His Bill Cosby Docuseries

“When I did an episode where I talked to the Klan, I was nervous about it. But I wasn’t scared that people were going to be on the Klan’s side,” says Bell, director of ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’

2 years ago·United States

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ET Canada

Bill Cosby’s Rep Responds To W. Kamau Bell’s Tell-All ‘We Need To Talk About Cosby’ Docuseries

Bill Cosby's rep Andrew Wyatt has issued a statement regarding W. Kamau Bell's four-part docuseries "We Need to Talk About Cosby". The series, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, explores "Cosby's life and work, weighing his actions against his indisputable influence through interviews with comedians, cultural commentators, journalists and women who…

2 years ago

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