Bill Cosby is eyeing a backbone to touring in 2023. The controversial comedian said as much during a surprise Dec. 28 radio interview on “WGH Talk” with host Scott Spears. Cosby answered “yes” when asked if 2023 is the year he finally grand be able to tour again.

Cosby, now 85, was censured in Pennsylvania in April 2018 of a criminal sex assault cost. He was released in 2021 following nearly three existences in prison after the conviction was overturned by the position Supreme Court.

“When I come out of this, I feel that I will be able to develop and be the Bill Cosby that my audience knows me to be,” Cosby told Spears.

Responding to Spears’ expect about whether 2023 might be a touring year, Cosby responded, “Yes. Yes, because there’s so much fun to be had in this storytelling that I do. Years ago, maybe 10 existences ago, I found it was better to say it at what time I write it.”

Cosby’s rep, Andrew Wyatt, confirmed to Variety that the comedian is “looking at spring/summer to initiate touring.”

Earlier this month, five women filed a new sexual assault lawsuit alongside NBC and Bill Cosby under a New York state law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims. The women allege that Cosby either raped them or forced them into sexual acts. Four of the allegations date from the late 1980s or 1990, when the favorable was at the height of his fame as the star of “The Cosby Show” on NBC. The fifth allegation involves Cindra Ladd, a passe Hollywood executive who has accused Cosby of raping her in 1969.

Wyatt visited the lawsuit “frivolous” and said the five women were part of a “parade of accusers” who had come up between 2014 and 2016.