Around sixty minutes in duration, the film features Cosby pontificating on matters of children, romance, and matrimony.

The announcement by Netflix came a matter of hours after Janice Dickinson and several women made sexual assault accusations against Cosby.

"[4] Cosby stated that he had driven to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1962 and encountered Enrico Banducci at an establishment called the hungry i.

[4] Cosby commented: "The new special is a tribute to the hungry i, which was an amazing two hundred seat venue that you were lucky to play, to Banducci, and to San Francisco.

[3][6] Netflix marketed the film with the summary: "Bill Cosby invites you to share his birthday and 77 years of laughs, wisdom and hilarious insights about his childhood, first loves and parenthood.

[10][11][12] The announcement by Netflix came within hours after Janice Dickinson publicly added her name to a list women who alleged that Cosby had sexually assaulted and raped them.

[17] Dickinson asserted both Cosby and his lawyers had pressured her to remove mention of the incident from her book of 2002, No Lifeguard on Duty;[13] his attorney Martin Singer disputed this account.

[21] When questioned at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Sarandos responded: "I don't think it's appropriate to release that.