Judd Apatow Does Scathing Standup Routine on Bill Cosby
Trainwreck and Knocked Up director Judd Apatow has been a vocal critic of Bill Cosby in the renewed coverage of Cosby’s alleged drugging, sexually assaulting, and raping of dozens of women over the course of several decades.
Over the past few months, Apatow has been relentless with his scathing comments, telling Seth Meyers, “People say why do you talk about it, which is kind of like saying leave the rapist alone.” He told Today’s Willie Geist, “When you go out on a date, you don’t need seven prescriptions for quaaludes.” Apatow was maybe most blunt on HuffPost Live when he said, “I think he’s a very sick man and there’s something wrong with him and he hurt a lot of people.”
Apatow took his condemnation of Cosby to new heights on The Tonight Show Monday when he spent a large part of his standup routine eviscerating the fallen icon. Mimicking Cosby’s voice, Apatow pretended he was doing standup as the icon amidst all the controversy, saying, “You ever, like, get into the doghouse with the wife? Doghouse with the wife? Because of something that you did? Like the other day there was something about me in the paper and I didn’t want my wife to read the paper. So I got up at five in the morning and snuck out to the driveway to get the paper.”
Apatow then took his set to a point that had the audience laughing and groaning in discomfort, "And then the next day I forgot to get the paper. And my wife, she said to me, ‘What is this in the paper? About the raping and the women and the drugging?’”
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on NBC.
