Invoice Cosby spoke out Monday to lament the lack of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who performed his TV son for eight seasons on Eighties TV hit The Cosby Show.

"He was at all times an excellent studier, and I loved working with him very a lot," Cosby stated in an interview with ABC Information. "He was very skilled. He at all times knew his half…. He at all times knew his traces, and he at all times knew the place to go."

Warner was a younger teenager when he first performed the position of Theo Huxtable, one of many 5 kids of Cosby's Dr. Cliff Huxtable and his spouse Clair (Phylicia Rashad). Theo was the couple's solely son in a household that additionally included Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam).

Cosby stated that he and Warner had remained shut after the present led to 1992, wrapping up eight award-winning seasons: "Malcolm calls right here often."

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As well as, Warner went on to seem on reveals equivalent to Malcolm & Eddie, Group, Fits, The Resident, 9-1-1, and Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit. Warner additionally hosted a podcast, Not All Hood, and he was a poet and a Grammy-winning musician.

Cosby confronted authorized hassle within the a long time after the present. The comic denied allegations of sexual misconduct from dozens of ladies. Whereas he was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, he was launched on a technicality in 2021.

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Cosby's lawyer declined to share an announcement with EW when reached for remark.

Along with Cosby, Warner was mourned by the likes of Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Hudson, and Questlove, who remembered Warner as having been "a gps/lighthouse of navigating security to maturity" on the groundbreaking sequence that depicted an upper-class Black household.

"Seeing myself in each episode by means of his sneakers: like being dangerous at soccer, wanting garments exterior of my finances, hiding issues out of your mother and father (ear piercings or weed), dwelling in a 'respectable politics' home of jazz vs 'teen music' —-pssssh Theo being instrumental to a lion's share of gen x teenagers to see how a sampler labored!!! And even singalongs at a household gathering—-him coping with dyslexia ——he even had me assume I can also get by in life surviving on 'bologna & cereal' and for the primary time fascinated with 'what does it imply to be an grownup with out relying in your mother and father?'——-Alot of us solely had the Huxtables to vicariously reside by means of and I used to be Malcolm. Assembly him on 94 was a thrill after I first bought within the biz."

The Roots artist stated Warner had been an early supporter of the group, and he stated he was upset they’d by no means collaborated as they deliberate.

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