Hey, Hey, Hey: Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is in jail this morning, beginning a three to 10 year sentence on his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. He was also labelled a sexually violent predator who will have to be registered for the rest of his life.

Ten women who have accused Cosby of sexual abuse, including the victim in the case, Andrea Constand, were in the courthouse to witness the sentencing. Cosby’s wife, Camille, was not there.

The court released Constand’s victim impact statement in which she said, “Bill Cosby took my beautiful, healthy young spirit and crushed it.” Constand had testified that Cosby drugged and raped her in his Pennsylvania home.

Now 81, Cosby has been an enduring cultural figure since the 1960s. He was one of the country’s first black television stars and with his gentle humor became known as “America’s Dad.” Then in recent years the veneer cracked with at least 60 women coming forward to say that Cosby had drugged and raped them. Only under Pennsylvania law was he able to be charged and convicted so many years after the attacks.

Judge Steven O’Neill said, “It is time for justice, Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The day has come. The time has come.”

The Big Con: Republican leaders have scheduled a vote for Friday on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, indicating they plan to move forward no matter what is said in hearings tomorrow.

At the same time President Trump stepped up his attacks on the women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual abuse.

The President said of the second accuser, Deborah Ramirez, that, “She said she was totally inebriated and she was all messed up and she doesn’t know it was him but it might have been him.” Then he added sarcastically, “Oh, gee, let’s not make him a Supreme Court judge because of that.”

Trump basically said it’s a Democratic plot to discredit Kavanaugh. “I think it’s horrible what the Democrats have done. It’s a con game they’re playing; they’re really con artists,” he said in New York at the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.

There is dissent in the Republican ranks. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a potential swing vote, said, “We are now in a place where it’s not about whether or not Judge Kavanaugh is qualified, it is about whether or not a woman who has been a victim at some point in her life is to be believed.”

The Republicans, meanwhile, have hired a woman sex crimes prosecutor to ask the questions of Christine Blasey Ford during her scheduled testimony Thursday in which she is expected to describe Kavanaugh sexually assaulting her while the two were in high school.

Senate Judicial committee Chairman Charles Grassley said, “The whole purpose is to create an environment where it’s like what Dr. Ford has asked for, to be professional and not be a circus.”

But having a hired interrogator also insulates the senators from looking like a bunch of old white guys grilling a woman about having been assaulted.

Comedy is Hard: President Trump opened his speech at the United Nations yesterday with a repeat of his claim that he’s accomplished more than just about any previous president, provoking snickers of laughter among the world leaders gathered in the giant hall.

Trump said, “I did not expect that reaction,” and later claimed to reporters that he had intentionally made the claim  to play for laughs.

His speech was hard-boiled “America First” and isolationism. He said,  “We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”

Just a year after calling North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un “Little Rocket man,” Trump praised Kim for moving toward nuclear disarmament, although he has done little so far.

The President reserved his scorn this year for the “corrupt dictatorship” in Iran. “Iran’s leaders sow chaos, death and destruction,” Trump declared. “They do not respect their neighbor or borders, or the sovereign rights of nations.”

“Not good,” he added.

Crash Diet: Dunkin’ Donuts is changing its name to just “Dunkin’.” Weight Watchers has also put its name on a diet and slimmed it to just “WW.” We’re betting that in six months it will be back to its full name.