Comedian Bill Cosby is not worried about hecklers, his publicist said. Photo / AP
Comedian Bill Cosby is not worried about hecklers, his publicist said. Photo / AP
Bill Cosby isn't wasting any time following his release from jail, with revelations he is set to plan a comeback tour.
The 83-year-old hopes to perform standup in London's comedy clubs as part of an international comeback tour after his sexual assault conviction was overturned, his publicist says.
Cosby's representative Andrew Wyatt told TMZ the comedian was keen to hit the road and perform comedy, and a number of clubs were reportedly open to the idea of hosting.
Despite widespread backlash and outrage over his prison release, Wyatt said "the world wants to see Mr Cosby".
TMZ reported Cosby is also working on a five-part docuseries covering his life, legacy, trial and prison sentence.
Bill Cosby is jumping right back into showbiz now that he's out of prison, according to his representative.
The comedian and actor was not overly concerned about hecklers, his publicist said, but his team did plan to screen audiences for "media insurrectionists ... who fuel hate".
Cosby also plans to work for criminal justice and prison reform, based on his own experiences.
Several other projects, including a book written by leading black writer Frederick Williams, and a documentary series by filmmaker Michelle Major are in the works.
Both the book and the five-part documentary series will include interviews with Cosby about his experiences with the legal system.
Cosby was nearly three years into a 10-year sentence for drugging and molesting women in 2004 when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled he did not receive a fair trial.
He was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era.
Comedian Bill Cosby is not worried about hecklers, his publicist said. Photo / AP
Justice David Wecht, writing for a split court, said Cosby had relied on the former district attorney's decision not to charge him when the comedian gave his potentially incriminating testimony in Constand's civil case.
The court called Cosby's arrest "an affront to fundamental fairness, particularly when it results in a criminal prosecution that was forgone for more than a decade".
The justices said overturning the conviction, and barring any further prosecution "is the only remedy that comports with society's reasonable expectations of its elected prosecutors and our criminal justice system".
"Mr Cosby should never have been prosecuted for these offences," said lawyer Jennifer Bonjean, who argued Cosby's appeal.
