were you trying to do bill cosby? >> a little bit. >> jimmy: that's your bill cosby?i've ever seen, bill cosby. like you always do every time he's here. that's your thing, you can't help when bill cosby is in the room you can't but help but talk like bill cosby. [ laughter ] [ inpersonating cosby ] and you just start acting like him and talking like him. [ laughter ] and you can't help but do that thing that he does. ♪ [ applause ] >> steve: come on. >> he's the greatest. >> jimmy: i just want to bring him out now. i love him so much. he's the greatest. i know, i was running by 'cause i was coming up to do the monologue. just running by and i ran by his dressing room. and i said, "i love you, bill cosby." and he goes, "who cares?" [ laughter ] unbelievable. he's just the greatest. let get to some news here, you guys. this guy. i love this guy. more trouble for toronto mayor rob ford. [ cheers and applause ] after he admitted to smoking crack, ford is now threatening to sue his former staffers for saying that he once hired a prostitute. ford was like, that is a lie, i

when bill cosby makes fun of you, i'm telling you he made my week. are you kidding? >> you've made it now. >> it's about like you. sees me, makes fun of me. >> exactly. >>> all right. we're looking at some snow showers outside. we'll share that in a minute. we're looking at a disturbance overnight with a clear day tomorrow, just brisk. 40 outside, average high is 46. so a little below average. it's 36 right now, relative humidity, 82%, and the winds are calm. the winds will pick up as soon as the little disturbance rolls through. winds north-northwest at 10-15. the rain showers are to the south and the snow is filling in from leesburg to rockfield and northwest and really beginning to snow south of town, waldorf, and we talked about this earlier, you actually have the best chance of getting a little coating before everything is said and done. once you get north, you won't see anything. mostly showers and snow showers are to the south. so clearing out and cold by dawn, okay, morning temperatures 26-36. you factor in the winds, i would dress the kids in the 20s, actual

♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: my thanks to bill cosby, bonnie raitt, once again. [ cheers and applause oh my goodness. and the greatest band on "late night," the roots, right there. [ cheers and applause ] stay tuned for "carson daly." thank you for watching. have a good night. hope to see you tomorrow. bye bye. [ cheers and applause ] ♪

. >> a long time friend, commedian bill cosby was in town to serve as master of ceremony. >> i offered to pay, you know. >> you're money is not good here. >> that's the way it works. >> a few hundred friends gathered telangion theatre to share virginia tosses birthday. >> and the world will be as one. >> camile cosby, bill's wife. >> she has always been a consistent friend, so someone who was consistently in integrity about herself and about her work. >> bernie denchack of washington university. >> she's the heart and southeasterly of u-street, consequently the heart and southeasterly of washington d.c. >> former d.c. council chairman, kwamie brown. >> she has a warm heart and cares for this community for a long time. >> bill cosby calls me up on stage to say a few words about virginia alie. >> you have 10 seconds. >> [laughter] >> one, two-- >> mayor and council members got the same treatment from the cos. >> as you are, you are, well what it is? >> today was declared virginia alie day in the district, tomorrow you might find her next door at ben's chili bowl where she and family have

camille cosby, bill's wife. >> she has always been a consistent friend.one who was consistently been there as a friend. >> reporter: virginia ali's restaurant remains one of the most popular in the city. former d.c. council chairman kwame brown. >> she has a warm heart. she's cared for this community for a long time. >> reporter: bill cosby called me up on stage to say a few words about virginia ali. >> 10 seconds. >> okay. >> one. >> reporter: mayor and a host of council members got the same treatment from the cos. >> and you are? >> reporter: tomorrow you might find her next-door at been's chili bowl where she and family have greeted and served customers from presidents to foreign leaders to tourists and regular folk like you and me for more than 50 years. >> and now we are diverse and we are booming and washington is booming and i just love this city and i love my community. >> reporter: bruce johnson, wusa9. >> and ben's chili bowl is no longer the small mom and pop operation. there are new restaurants going up in rosslyn and h street northwest. ben's

we have a guy coming up next wednesday on thehow, bill cosby.ive back for temple university. they are growing into a pretty good football machine. so all of a sudden on my notre dame schedule this year, it's the first game that they play and bill cosby do about as well. and i said, we have to get them on the show. he flew down to philadelphia to give the team a pep talk. [laughter] neil: you have a pretty impressive rolodex over the years. the president, stars, all of that. neil: everyone says you get the reviews and it sounds so similar the fox news experience. seventeen years ago. how different are they. espn ruling the roost. but does it bother you? you just move on? >> i haven't heard that yet. people are interested in seeing how we will approach it and what we will offer for support and everything else. >> you have a lot of tese other issues as well. the new connections, you are a have connections as well. i noticed that it's bigger with your personality. is that by design? espn is a sports and events, it is about personality? >> i didn't e

and i said, well, got to get bill cosby on the show. to philadelphia to give the temple team a pep talk. he thinks he is rockne. he is nuts. neil: can't let that go unaddressed. >> he is just cosby. neil: that is part of the strategy. not only who you were, but you have a impressive rolodex. you know a lot of people and pick up the phone and talk to presidents and stars. >> that will help i think, sure. neil: how do you think this is going to go? every one says, you get reviews. sound so similar to what fox news experienced 11 years ago. you guys aren't going to makk it. how different are they? espn rules the roost. i think i remember them saying the same thing about cnn at the time. does it bother you? do you move on? what do you say? >> i haven't heard that yet. people are interested seeing how we would approach it. what we'll offer is a exmix of sports and everything else. so that is what we're doing all week. neil: but you had a lot of things. all about the programing too. >> sure. neil: ultimate fighting. nascar, those are big draw

bill cosby was making incredible hay.at and thought, they're only going to let one of us through at a time. if i'm going to be successful, i better go the way bill's going. then he was sort of radicalized and very quickly owned his own voice. as you mentioned earlier, you know, he spent time in berkeley with the black panthers, studying malcolm x, listening to miles davis, and i think it dawned on him he had to be relevant, not just an entertainer. >> and he certainly did become relevant. he goes on to have all kinds of stand-up routines, all kind of television appearances many on "saturday night live," and to have many incredible appearances in movies. a great role. one film that a lot of people, even richard pryor lovers may not have seen, is "blue collar." paul shrader's first movie as a director. i always love it when sort of the comedian "blue collar." i love it when the comedian turns serious. we're talking about the fall of detroit, and he just portrays it in this amazing way. >> he did. and he was always at his be

and i go into my best bill cosby. noah. who is this? well, he doesn't have that either. >> he doesn't have that tradition, history. >> a lot of us don't. >> i had to tell him the story of noah. and a lot of stuff began to make sense. similarly, you don't know the christmas stories. >> uh-huh. >> it can be pretty baffling. and so the wreath is part of the christmas symbolism brought in early 1600s, but really it's taken root across the american churches where each sunday is part of the service, usually a familiar or person lights a candle. >> that's what my church family did. >> and from's a name for each one. i don't remember. >> well, faith, hope, love and joy. >> okay. faith, hope, love and joy. and they're all purple, because purple is the color of. >> right. >> it's advent. that's how you can tell. it's color-coded today. and a white one or a red one for christmas eve. that is the light. so that is -- if you go to church and you don't know that it's lighting each of these symbols on the road to christmas -- >> what i like about it i

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who played bill cosby's wife on the cars be show said that said that he and the guard talking about cultural conditioning would watch the cars be shipped. at robyn's prison and when he met felicia reese he said thank you and she said thank me for what we want the cars we show and back show and you soften the heart of my car. see that's the cultural conditioning that i'm talking about earlier is so martin luther king was. a radical i mean martin luther king was outspoken about economic justice both for blacks and whites he was outspoken about union rights he wanted spoken he was outspoken about american imperialism you know aggressively outspoken are going to all that stuff has been glossed over each why oppose the vietnam war exactly all that stuff has been glossed over in the in general in the corporate media and in the characterizations of martin luther king and it's all been turned into oh it's just about summarized i'm so proud of you and so happy that you are one of the few . television and political analysts that has acknowledged that it will be thank you and in the fifty seconds ago l

country but thank god you have nelson mandela of fascinating to hear him tell police the regime play bill cosby's life on the cause me show said that said that he and the guard talking about cultural conditioning would watch the cars be shipped. at robins. and when he met felicia reese he said thank you and she said thank me for what we want because the show and back show and you saw the heart of my car. the that's the cultural considering it on top and it really is so martin luther king was. a radical i mean martin luther king was outspoken about economic justice both for blacks and whites here as outspoken about union rights human rights spoken he was outspoken about american imperialism aggressively outspoken on american and other all that stuff has been glossed over each wire opposed the vietnam war exactly all the stuff has been glossed over in the in general in the corporate media in the characterizations of martin luther king and it's all been turned into oh it's just about all right i'm so proud of you and so happy that you are one of the few. television political analyst that has acknowl

and yet i did the bill cosby him self all that dad is great give us a chocolate cake stuff just kill me to a point you know and that that's what i love about comedy is that euphoria i remember when i watching it with like my friend matt beaton in his basement and like just the euphoria you feel with someone watching it and that's that's actually what i said really what my my whole new tors about thank god for jokes is a whole new show about how comedy is you know jokes are a thing that sometimes and alienate you from people but sometimes make you feel closer then there's nothing like the great joke yeah i mean stories always wonderful it's fun but a great joke yet in a way they want to do something here in which we take something that random over here until a story about it ok yeah you go first i'll do that sure you know we don't know it then i don't know you were going over some can't. but it was mind as no one tells you that about falling in love. what is no one tell you about owing tells you that about falling in love i think it's that. when you fall in love there's nothing you ca

some will say if you are not who you are, you should have been a friend of bill cosby, that is bill cosbyelf, he says, well, now, you have taken my profession. >> reporter: despite all of mandela's achievements, many will remember the warmth in his heart and the twinkle in his eye. cnn, johannesburg. >> good stuff there. you are watching the special coverage of the death of nelson mandela. >> we will continue in the hours ahead to reflect on the man, himself, his life and legacy as we go to break, let us bring you these live pictures from johannesburg, showing you the scenes outside the suburbs in johannesburg where the crowds are growing leaving a tribute for the great man of their nation. stay with cnn. we'll be right back. of course you can! . . >> hello, everyone, welcome to our special coverage of the death of nelson mandela. >> we'd like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, flags across south africa and in many cities around the world are at half-staff, a tribute to a man be call a giant for justice. the former south african president and nobel peace lau

because i remember listening to bill cosby records and it's hard to believe in 2013, a comedian you putdown, you listen, and it was like better than watching on tv because you were in this room of your own making. >> you get this great excitement. unfortunately like you're in on it. when we did the audio book for "still foolin' 'em," i did most of it live in front of an audience. i'm so proud of it because it's an exciting thing to listen to, and for the people that have been fans it's like getting a live concert album. >> your dad passed away when you were 15 and you wrote that you never felt young again after that. >> yeah. i don't know your personal life but if that's happened to you, you understand it's a right cross right to the chin. >> i can't imagine at 15, my danielle adams passed away a couple of years ago and people would talk to me and for about a year, year and a half i would sit there and smile. i can't imagine a 15-year-old kid -- >> it was sudden. it was out of the blue. so when i turned 50 i started making notes of a show that i was thinking about and i even called it "

. >> there are great pictures of you with bill cosby and colin powell. you have done great things in your life, bon jovi, you had fun too. i'm curious - you know, when critics say, "look, it's an investment, but the u.s. can invest in anybody", why should they have to. what do you say to that? >> i think as an american value we said we want to educate our children and give people the access to the american dream. the truth is this is not just a moral imperative. i'm a business person. i think there's a business case that can be made. if we want to stay competitive in the united states we need an educated workforce. part of that is putting money into education and feeding people. if you can't feed yourself, how can you go to college and live a dream of being a lawyer as i was able to. >> what do you say to members of congress who are taking on a lot of these issues? >> these are real people with real lives. most people i knew worked hard, with it two, three jobs. they wanted the american dream, da dream of seeing their children do better than they did. wh

he said, madiba, if you're not who you are, you should have been a friend of bill cosby. >> reporter:andela's achievements, many will just remember the warmth in his heart and the twinkle in his eye. >> nelson mandela garnerred more international support and admiration than perhaps any world leader in recent memory and maybe in even less recent memory. but that wasn't always the case. he didn't become a global household name until the 1980s. cnn's nischelle turner has the story about the star-studied concert that helped raise awareness from his cause. >> this is all generating from one man that none of us has ever met, nelson mandela. >> reporter: in 1988, nelson mandela was behind bars in south africa. when a collection of musicians coming together in london to call for his release, sent a message around the world ♪ >> it was an 11 1/2 hour broadcast to 600 million people when there are only 5 billion in the world. to get that, we had to not only sell the program to 67 countries, we had to give it away to 30 african countries that wanted to broadcast it. >> reporter: this man organiz

jim brown, bill cosby, not just people who broke amazing barriers. stuart: are they ostracize? ostracized being honest. charles: i never thought of him as a conservative guy. charles: is about being honest. one of the things these guys did and jim brown criticized kobe, one thing they did, they were not making money when you retire after year of playing, they took extraordinary risks not only to promote themselves but help all black people go to their level. they took a mirror and showed it to society. we can be better. 30 years later it turned is a mirror, and say throw rocks at them. it is despicable, some people who put down bill cause the couldn't fill of symbol of what he has achieved an done for others. stuart: president obama will make an appearance on the steve harvey shell. i don't know about this. charles: steve harvey has a popular radio show. he started the radio show i was a huge fan and he started off and thank god and talk about art work and just being your best. over the last few years he has become part of the obama kitchen cabinet. the response to so much hate

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bill cosby. >> that would be great. taking over the fence.t, thin tape, and the dow not moving much, 6 points. twitter is down about 7%, which given that decline, is going to take you all the way back to tuesday. >> yesterday? >> yes. >> and probably going down, jon said, for the same reasons it was going up, which was sort of hard to figure out. a lot of momentum and hype behind the social media names. >> of course, the downgrade out of mcquarry, saying nothing has changed since they launched coverage 15 days ago. >> maybe the window's already dressed now. >> yeah, a good point. oil is one to watch as we got crude back above 100. the biggest u.s. production since 1998. you have to go back 25 years to see that. we'll see what effect that has on the economy in 2014. guys, see you later on. let's get back to headquarters, scott wapner, and "halftime." ♪ >>> all right, carl, thank you so much. here's what we're following today. against the crowd, which stock has the biggest short interest? we'll trade the biggest name s fantasy football. wait un

we saw bill cosby in the piece. ked about how mandela comforted his family when they we saw bill lost their son. he talked about how mandela comforted his family when they but the word that comes up again and again is simply inspiration. but th >> we were talking about that e. this morning.. ng about that i was saying inspire is one of those words we tend to throw thi around a lot.re is one ofrds we around a lot. >> overused. >> overused. >> but he truly embodies it. >> but he truly embodies it. when i t when i thought about him this ho morning, i thought i'd like to morning, i thought i'd like to be a better -- i'd like to be e more like that. more like that. >> and pop culture wise, we're around the same age and i around the same age an remember being a kid in texas d remember being a kid in texas watching mtv and hearing the watching mtv and hearing the so song free mandela and you go to school and talk about it with n. your teachers. who is this mande who is this mandela?la but pop culture brought that tou our li