Comedian Hannibal Buress calls Bill Cosby a ‘rapist’ during stand-up set

Actor ... Bill Cosby is best known for playing family man Dr Heathcliff Huxtable in ‘The Cosby Show’. Picture: News LtdSource: News Limited

COMEDIAN Hannibal Buress has called Bill Cosby a “rapist” in a stand-up set, saying it’s time we stopped putting the “hypocritical” star on a pedestal.

Buress, who used to write for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, also referred to the numerous sexual assault claims against 77-year-old Cosby during a recent show in Philadelphia.

“Bill Cosby has the f*****g 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.”’

Speaking out ... comedian Hannibal Buress said he’s sick of Bill Cosby’s hypocrisy. Picture: Getty Images for AWXISource: Getty Images

Buress continued: “Dude’s image, for the most part, it’s f*****g public Teflon image. I’ve done this bit on stage and people think I’m making it up ... That s**t is upsetting. If you didn’t know about it trust me. When you leave here, Google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ It’s not funny. That s**t has more results than ‘Hannibal Buress’.”

Buress’ comments have made headlines in the US, with the comedian commenting on Twitter: “Boy, that escalated quickly.”

Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast.

— Hannibal Buress (@hannibalburess) October 21, 2014

Cosby is best known for playing Dr Heathcliff Huxtable in The Cosby Show, during which he cultivated his image as America’s favourite family man.

However the veteran entertainer has been accused of grooming, drugging and raping numerous young women from the 1970s until at least 2004.

The cases have not garnered as much media attention as those involving accused predators Woody Allen and R Kelly because, Gawker’s Tom Socca writes, “nobody wanted to live in a world where Bill Cosby was a sexual predator. It was too much to handle.”

For several years, Cosby has used his profile to speak out against rap music and blame black men for their subjugation.

Source: Comedian Hannibal Buress calls Bill Cosby a ‘rapist’ during stand-up set

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