Bill Cosby says he's planning a tour in 2023 and a representative says he's looking at "Spring/Summer." Since so far, that's all there seems to be to this tour — no dates or performing venues mentioned — I'm guessing it's in the Trial Balloon category. Cosby and whoever might be involved in such a tour want to see what the reaction is to the possibility.
I would assume Mr. Cosby is less interested in money than he is in working to "normalize" his public image. That would require that theaters want him on the premises and that crowds actually queue up to buy tickets. I don't see those two things happening enough for him to be able to say, "See? The public still loves me."
This reminds me of when O.J. Simpson was a free man. I'm not sure where I read this but some pollster — I have no idea which one or how credible that pollster was — had said that XX% of America thought O.J. was an innocent man, unjustly accused of and perhaps framed for a crime he did not commit. I don't remember the number either but I'm thinking it was around 20%. Simpson, the piece said, assumed it was so and that the percentage was large enough to make him a very wealthy man again.
He had plans for a movie, a book, a live TV interview, t-shirts, some sort of "I ❤ O.J." club, etc. He was certain that "his people" would patronize all those projects in sufficient number for him to get back all the dough he'd paid his "Dream Team" of lawyers plus all his other losses plus more. It reportedly came as a tremendous shock to him that (a) no one wanted to be in business with him and (b) even those who told pollsters they thought he was Not Guilty were Not Interested in his exploitations of his ordeal. The few that went forward did something like 5% of the business he'd expected and that advisors had told him was a sure thing.
In short, even the people he thought supported him wouldn't support him. It's not hard to imagine Cosby finding out the same thing.