Cosby Digs George W.

By Stephen M. Silverman

Wednesday June 24, 1998 12:00 AM EDT

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Bill Cosby couldn't avoid getting political last night, when he acted as master of ceremonies for New York University's Tisch School of the Arts 35th anniversary celebration, reports PEOPLE. (Cos's link to the school is that his daughter, Erinn Cosby, is a photography student there.) "It is a funny time," Cosby, 63, said on the stage of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, where the celebration took place in front of a packed audience that included Tisch school alumni Alec Baldwin, Ron Howard and Billy Crystal. "It is Bush W. that I feel sorry for. You are going to be, for the fourth time, the president-elect. But you can't be president . . . He's at his ranch that has no cattle on it." Referring to a meeting between George W. Bush and Colin Powell, Cosby called it "fondling the Colin" and said, "They had to have Colin Powell meet with George W., so W. could learn his name." His final summation of the triumvirate of Bush, Dick Cheney and Powell: "These guys are looking like the three wise men who couldn't find Mary and Joseph."