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Bill Cosby is facing allegations of assault and sexual misconduct by many women. Here, a man recalls rescuing a female friend from the comedian’s New York brownstone in 1984.

Are the athletes' bland interviews to blame for NBC's poorly received Olympics coverage? On this edition of MediaBeast, Tony Dokoupil talks with the New York Observer's Foster Kamer about boring Olympians. Also, the New York Times' Tanzina Vega on the need for a Latino 'Cosby Show.'

In a reenactment sequence on Celebrity Ghost Stories, former Cosby Show daughter Tempestt Bledsoe (a.k.a. Vanessa) was visited by a ghost wearing a sweater. Let the Bill Cosby jokes begin.

Bill Cosby has some fun at NBC's expense, though to be fair, if anyone has the right to laugh over NBC's ratings problems, it's the man who made the network #1 so long ago.