Fooled Them Again | 3

Chasing Cosby

Los Angeles Times

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Bill Cosby is in the middle of a career resurgence when a video capturing a joke about him goes viral. Suddenly, women from California to Florida are coming forward with their own stories of being drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby. This pushes a man who had been hiding Cosby’s secrets for decades to expose the truth. Support us by supporting our sponsors: Simplisafe - Get free shipping when you visit simplisafe.com/COSBY. Squarespace - Get 10% off your first website or domain purchase at squarespace.com/CHASINGCOSBY. Upstart - Take charge of your credit card debt by visiting upstart.com/COSBY. Parachute - Get free shipping and returns on everyday essentials at parachutehome.com/COSBY.

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0:00.0	Chasing Cosby contains descriptions of violence, sexual content, and language that is not suitable for every audience.
0:07.3	Please be advised.
0:13.8	It's October 16, 2014, and we're at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia.
0:20.5	Hannibal Burris is a comedian from Chicago.
0:23.0	You might know I'm from Comedy Central's Broad City,
0:25.4	and he's doing stand-up tonight.
0:28.3	On stage, Burris starts mocking Bill Cosby.
0:31.8	Who are you paying us up, black people?
0:33.2	I was on TV in 80s.
0:36.4	Dan McQuaid, who works for Philadelphia Magazine, is here at the show.
0:40.3	I was probably fiddling with my phone, and I heard him say Bill Cosby, and I immediately hit record and started filming.
0:47.3	I could talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.
0:51.3	Yeah, it was great living, Bill Cosby, so I kind of freeze you down a couple nights.
0:57.4	I don't curse on stage.
0:59.2	But yeah, you're a rapist, so I can take you saying lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby himself
1:06.1	if you weren't a rapist.
1:08.6	Yep.
1:09.8	Hannibal Burris just called Cosby a rapist on stage.
1:13.5	It was completely random that I had been in the audience that night.
1:17.2	I got a ticket last minute and didn't expect to be reporting on any news while I was there.
1:23.3	But here's a young black comedian going to town on Bill Cosby here.
1:29.1	And I was like, oh, well, that's a story.
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