Posted on 11/21/2014 11:03:59 AM PST by Olog-hai
Bill Cosby’s shows at casinos in Las Vegas and Arizona have been canceled as more women come forward alleging he sexually assaulted them many years ago. […]
Cosby, 77, still apparently planned to bring his comedy routine to a sold-out theater in Melbourne, Florida, Friday night, and at least 34 other shows remain on his schedule through May 2015. …
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The public implosion of Bill Cosby has been nothing short of stunning — a decade-long, slow-motion fusillade of mistresses and no fewer than 16 sex-assault accusers, culminating in recent weeks with a series of spectacular, career-threatening p.r. grenade blasts.
The stunning fall of America’s dad
http://pagesix.com/2014/11/16/cosbys-image-in-ruins-as-he-dodges-rape-claims-again/
It went viral when a black Comedian in Philly mentioned Cosby in his act.
Because comedian Hannibal Buress told a 'Cosby is a rapist' joke on Thursday night, October 16, 2014, in his set at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia. Warning: the language is not suitable for people with ears.
He put the joke in his set almost six months earlier, but it only hit home when he told the joke in Bill Cosby's home town, where it hit the Internet the next day (the link above and other sources), and somebody took a video of it with his or her cellphone and uploaded it to YouTube.
Buress was invited to appear on Howard Stern's radio show to discuss the situation.
In his joke, Buress told the audience, and hence everybody who watched YouTube or listened to Howard Stern, or saw the video on any one of a zillion other websites to "Google 'Bill Cosby' and 'rape." Buress said "it's not funny.'
People Googled 'Bill Cosby' and 'rape.' It wasn't funny.
Yes, women came forward, but the media also went to women who'd come forward more than twenty years ago.
This wasn't news; it was common knowledge that nobody wanted to talk about.
For example, on September 16th of this year, Mark Whitaker's biography, Bill Cosby: His Life and Times was published.
In book reviews - and note these are written by book reviewers, not TMZ, nor entertainment reporters, nor let's-skewer-Cosby-because-he-talks-about-wholesome-black-values writers, in the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed ("The New Bill Cosby Biography Omits Rape Allegations Against Him"), and others (and more), said "hey? Why didn't you mention all of the alleged rapes?"
Book reviewers, reviewing a biography of Bill Cosby, read the book and asked 'eh? No rapes?"
Thanks, it looks like that twitter thing might have been the start of it and Hannibal Buress jumped on for the coup de grâce.
“Bill Cosby has the f–ing smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, [that] brings you down a couple notches. I don’t curse on stage. But yeah, you’re a rapist.”
Freegards
See post #23
Ah, Cosby says "go ahead, meme me," posts a meme generator, and it completely backfires.
For a guy with a PhD, he isn’t very bright.
Buress has had it in act for seven months now. However, when he told the joke in Philly and somebody shot video on his or her cellphone . .
It’s not a Ph.D. Bill Cosby has a Ed.D.
I did not appreciate Eddie Murphy’s language in the least, but when he quoted Richard Pryor as saying “Tell Bill I said to have a coke and a smile . . .,” I’ll admit I half-cringed and half-grinned as I shook my head.
Thanks.
Freegards
Pretty classic. Years since I saw any of that.
Freegards
Any klinton speeches being cancelled?
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