Imagine you've just called a restaurant to place an order, and Bill Cosby answers the phone.
That's just what's happened at Ben's Chili Bowl where "The Cosby Show" star lent the famed D.C. eatery his voice for callers on hold to hear.
Sure beats elevator music.
"People coming in, why?" Cosby said over the pre-recorded announcement. "Because they get what they've been dreaming about. See, after you have one of those famous, whatever you've ordered there, and you start to dream about it days later..."
Silence followed his message, then Cosby reminded the customer, "you're on hold at Ben's Chili Bowl."
The 76-year-old actor is one of the most devoted fans of the half-smoke hot dog hawking landmark, according to founders Virginia and Ben Ali, who spoke to the Washington Post.
But Cosby isn't the only famous face that's enjoyed a dog or two at Ben's-Denzel Washington, Chris Tucker, U2's Bono, and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have all eaten there.
After Ben's opened in 1958, the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Martin Luther King, Jr. also graced the tables of the restaurant, the Washington Post reported.
During a news conference and party on Thursday thrown in celebration of Ben's 55 year as the main chili stop in D.C., Virginia said that Cosby was at the restaurant all the time. Even when he couldn't make it down to the eatery, the actor never went without.
"I've physically driven half-smokes to him to New York, Solomons Island, Richmond," another Ali son, Nizam, told the Washington Post.
The Alis said that Cosby was one of the people who put Ben's on the map as one of the must-eat restaurants in Washington.
Watch Cosby make a speech about his love for Ben's below.
