Bill Cosby 1969 Stand-Up Bit on Drugging Girls’ Drinks [Audio]
Hannibal Buress' stand-up routine in which he called Bill Cosby a rapist seems to have driven Cosby underground. Cosby has been cancelling appearances and had a really awkward interview on NPR in which he refused to speak when the line of questioning turned to sexual assault allegations.
Buress' stand-up is not the only one bringing attention to these allegations. A bit from Cosby's own stand-up routine from 1969 has surfaced about drugging girls' drinks.
Despite the recent attention, sexual assault allegations against Cosby have been around for years. According to Vox, on Saturday November 15, the 14th woman to accuse the comedian of sexual assault came forward.
Joan Tarshis, a music industry publicist and journalist, wrote in an essay for Hollywood Elsewhere that the comedian drugged and raped her in 1969, when she was 19 years old.
In the wake of this most recent allegation, the Village Voice published an article featuring a 1969 routine of Cosby's, where he details the use of an aphrodisiac named Spanish Fly to lure girls into bed.
The bit is from Cosby's ninth comedy album, It's True! It's True!, which came out on Warner Bros. Records on 1969. It has been on YouTube since September 2012.
According to Whatstrending, there isn't any evidence that this material caused outrage in 1969 or at any time since.
It seems the rape allegations are causing some people to listen with new ears.
The Youtube user andrewf1, who posted the video, has disabled the comments section, with the statement: "Comments disabled, take your rape allegations somewhere else."