Manager Says Comedian Bill Cosby, 77, Has âCommitted Suicideâ
Acclaimed stand-up comedian and 80s TV star and actor Bill Cosby, 77, best know for his role as Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show,Â has reportedly ended hisÂ career in show business, afterÂ making what the media isÂ calling âoutrageousâ and âcrudeâ comments about his rape allegations.After several womenÂ had come forward claiming that Cosby had sexually harassed or assaulted them, the once-loved comedian and 80s TV star had his life turned upside down. A new, planned TV series was cancelled, a Netflix stand-up special was postponed indefinitely, and even Nickelodeon pulled old episodes of The Cosby ShowÂ from its Nick At Night lineup.Cosby has been heckled several times during his tour. In one performance, a man stood and shouted out to Cosby,Â âYouâre a rapist!â before being removed from the theatre by security. During anotherÂ performance in Hamilton, Ontario, several members of the audience stood in unison and chanted âWe believe the women!âThe final straw reportedly came when, just a few nights ago during a performance, a tired-looking Cosby made a sly reference to a woman in the audience â who had stood up to get a drink during the show â by saying that women will have to âbe carefulâ if theyâre drinking anything near him. The crowd reacted with oohs and ahhs, taken aback by the coarseness of the joke.âI canât believe heâd make light of raping women like that,â said Jamaica Brown, an audience member. âThatâs just disgusting. I donât know why I even wanted to see him anyway. He ainât that funny without a Puddinâ Pop in his mouth.ââI thought it was pretty funny, actually,â said Jim Duggins, who was at the theater to seeÂ the performance with his wife of 4 months, Melissa. âOh, actually, my wife tells me that I was offended by the joke. Sorry, I guess I am upset by it. My wife says rape is never funny, so Iâm mad now.âInitially Cosbyâs manager said that the comedian was just âoverly tired,â and that he didnât mean what he said on stage, but then made an official statement this morning, claiming that there was no way that Cosby was ever going to recover from his actions as of late, and that the public would just continue to hate him.âHe didnât quit the business, per se, butÂ Iâm pretty sure his career is just dead in the water after all this,â said Cosbyâs manager. âHeâs making jokes, on stage, about his rape allegations now. Thatâs the kind of thing that will kill you.Â Heâs truly committed suicide at this point. Yes, everyoneâs favorite sweater wearing TV dad has definitely committed career suicide.â