Somehow in a conversation about hot dogs on the October 14 edition of the Jay Leno show, Bill Cosby manages to squeeze in a reference to Newfoundland.
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Bill Cosby: I’m from back east.
Jay Leno: Right.
BC: So I’m Washington D.C….
[Audience cheers.]
BC: …Ben’s Chili Bowl…
[Audience cheers.]
BC: (To Leno) What is this audience??
[Audience laughs]
JL: A lot of Canadians.
[Audience laughs]
BC: No, that’s more… They’re from Newfoundland…
[Audience laughs/cheers]
BC: …because they have a certain quality.
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You can see video of the Cosby’s appearance on the show here.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
More on the Cosby-Newfoundland connection:
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October 30th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Thanks Mr. Cosby, Newfoundlanders are loving, caring and very hospitable people. This gives them a special quality of being the most down- to- earth people on the globe.They also have quality musician’s and comedian’s and film producer’s. Like Bill Cosby himself, he has quality at its best.
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October 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Super! He even said it right :)
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October 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
The fact that I have seen this clip forwarded a thousand times in the last week makes me really sad.
Is our self-esteem so low that an off-hand remark from a comic is treated as interesting?
it should come as no surprise that Cosby would pronounce the name right; he spent a lot of time in Argentia during his time in the US military.
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October 16th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Bob,
what’s your problem? I think the only person’s self esteem that is low is yours. Well at least we know that you’re much more negative than the rest of us.
Who cares that its an off-hand remark by a comedian? People like it not because we have a low self-esteem, far from it, NLers are probably the most proud people on earth but because it’s just a chance for others who know little about us to at least here the name and maybe do a bit of research on us and/or maybe even visit here to find out what Newfoundland & Labrador is all about.
Please give it up with your negativity, it only brings everyone down.
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October 18th, 2009 at 1:01 am
It’s not that people are insecure, but it is unusual that Bill Cosby would mention newfoundland on Leno, and actually pronounce the name right.
But Cosby has a connection to newfoundland. Not just his service in Argentia, but he took in an interest in the Lanier Phillips story, the ww2 vet who crashed in Burin and was helped by people there.
It’s a folk story about how outport people had no concept of racism, compared to Americans. Cosby took an interest in it.
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Bill Cosby is coming to town!
He’ll be performing at the Molson Theatre in Mile One Centre on December 4th, shortly after releasing his “socially conscious hip hop album” The Cosnarati: State of Emergency. http://tinyurl.com/yfd9j4r
Gold Circle tickets ($89.50) go on sale this Wednesday, and regular tickets ($59.50) and you can get ‘em at the Mile One Box Office or online at http://www.mileonecentre.com or http://www.sonicconcerts.com.
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October 19th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I hope he lectures us about the detriments of stealing pound cake in exchange for Coca-Cola.
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October 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I hope he lectures us about using foul language right after he tells a few jokes about beating your children.
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October 30th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I have visited Newfoundland and Labrador on several occassions and the people are just wonderful, especially around the outports. They have that kind of kindness and respect that our ancestors had, and they want to hold unto that quality tradition. Mr. Crosby is a comedian and we have our own in Canada that see us for what we are. We have Ron James and the USA has Bill Cosby
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November 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Something similar to throw out there…saw Robin Williams live recently…He was talking about different parts of Canada and rhetorically asked: Newfoundland? Is that where the Irish send their special people?
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