Bill Cosby Gets Laughs Speaking at a Funeral With Oprah and Other Celebrities in Attendance
On the same day that Bill Cosby returned to the stage at Philadelphia’s LaRose Jazz Club, he was also giving a different type of performance in Harlem.
Page Six TV exclusively obtained video footage of Bill Cosby speaking at the funeral of Tad Schnugg, who passed away from urethral cancer on June 13th. In the four-minute clip, Cosby tells stories and gets applause and laughs from the crowd, as he performs his eulogy, speaking not only about the deceased, but of the relationship between Schnugg and his partner of fifty years, Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison. Cosby got a big laugh from the crowd quoting James Brown, who wrote “Do it!”
“A play has to be written about the two of you,” Cosby told Faison, who was Schnugg’s partner of fifty years.
“People don’t know about two men in love with each other. And George — to me — that’s the story that has to be told because anyone in love knows the story. They know their story. They know 50 years. You don’t think about 50 years when you fall in love. You just look at old people — and they’re not gonna tell you a thing about it,” Cosby quipped in an exclusive video obtained by “Page Six TV.”
The funeral took place at Harlem’s First Corinthian Baptist Church on Monday, where stars including Oprah Winfrey and Stephanie Mills were in attendance. Read more at pagesix.com.
