Bill Cosby

The disgraced comedian, who is serving time behind bars for drugging and raping Andrea Constand in 2004, shared the bizarre message on his official Twitter and Instagram accounts. 

It began: "Hey, Hey, Hey...It's America's Dad."

The tweet appears to be in reference to Cosby's role as family man Cliff Huxtable on the top-rated The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992, for which he became known as "America's Dad".

"I know it's late, but to all of the Dads... It's an honour to be called a Father," he continued. 

Following his sentencing, Cosby was transferred to Phoenix's State Correctional Institute (SCI), a maximum security prison.

On his first day in the facility, the legally blind 81-year-old reportedly had a hot dog bun thrown at his face, and fell down some stairs because he wasn't being guided.

Cosby is being kept in isolation and has not yet been assigned a bunkmate out of concern for his safety.

Cosby was the first celebrity to go to trial in the #MeToo era and could be the first to go to prison — perhaps for the rest of his days — after being convicted in April of violating Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.

Cosby, looking grim, walked into the courthouse on the arm of his longtime spokesman as protesters shouted at him. Constand arrived a short time later.

The actor, 80, has been on trial for drugging and assaulting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand in 2004.

Cosby, the first major black actor on primetime TV, will remain out of jail until he is sentenced, the judge ruled.

He unleashed an expletive-filled rant after the verdict, as prosecutors argued he should be denied bail.

The prosecutor argued that he should be held because he is "somebody who has unlimited wealth" and could flee on a private plane.

"He doesn't have a plane," Cosby then erupted, adding a vulgarity which he directed at the prosecutor.

This time, though, the proceedings will unfold in a markedly different courtroom – and a different world.

As before, the state criminal case centres on Cosby's word against that of Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who alleges Cosby drugged her, then assaulted her in January 2004 at his home near Philadelphia.

Defence lawyers called to the stand a detective who led a 2005 investigation into claims that Mr Cosby drugged and molested a woman at his home in 2004.

The embattled star, 79, earlier told a judge he would not testify to defend himself against those allegations.

Mr Cosby denies the charge and his lawyer has said she agreed to sex.

Andrea Constand, the 44-year-old at the centre of the case, says the alleged incident happened during a visit to his home to seek career advice.

A Pennsylvania judge found enough evidence during a hearing Tuesday to proceed with a criminal trial. It's not clear when his trial will start.

Cosby faces three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault from a 2004 case involving Andrea Constand, an employee at his alma mater, Temple University. She was the first of more than 50 women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct.

If convicted, Cosby faces up to 30 years in prison.

Cosby's defense attorney slammed the decision to move forward with a trial.

After firing off a series of tweets recently concerning a wide variety of topics (Puma, his reveal of doing a Yeezy kids' line, an adorable photo of daughter North West), 'Ye posted one message that used up less than half of the 140-character limit, but managed to speak volumes to many in the Twitterverse: "Bill Cosby INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, West, for whatever reason, decided to share his two cents on the ongoing sexual assault case concerning the famous comedian, and didn't offer up any other explanation beyond that—because Kanye.

6:40 p.m.

Bill Cosby has left the suburban Philadelphia courthouse where a judge refused to throw out a sex assault case against the comedian.

Cosby used a cane to descend an ornate marble staircase in the Montgomery County Courthouse on Wednesday night, then waved and smiled at supporters.

A recap of those cases in which statues of limitations have run their course, no charges were brought and Cosby has denied any wrongdoing:

MASSACHUSETTS

Nine women accuse him of defamation in three separate lawsuits in Massachusetts, where Cosby has a home in Shelburne Falls. The women allege he sexually abused them decades ago then defamed them after they went public with their allegations by allowing his representatives to brand them as liars. The lawsuits seek unspecified damages. Cosby is seeking to have them dismissed.

CALIFORNIA