The comedian who made the Bill Cosby joke that ignited a media firestorm doesn’t regret a thing.
Hannibal Buress was relatively unknown until his Cosby joke went viral, and said in his new interview with GQ that he couldn’t have anticipated the effect the joke would have.
“You can’t predict shit like that,” Buress said. “People are going to put on you whatever they want to put on you. It is conflicting, because people think I’m like this amazing guy or something. I’m a decent guy.”
Last fall fuzzy footage of Buress telling a joke he had made many times surfaced and went viral. In the clip, Buress said Cosby had no right to tell black people how to behave — “people with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack” — because “you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
“‘I don’t curse on stage,'” Buress said as he impersonates Cosby. “Well, yea, you’re a rapist, so.” (RELATED: Bill Cosby In Deposition: I Gave Women Drugs So I Could Have Sex With Them)
“I’ve done this bit on stage and people don’t believe me. People think I’m making it up. Go home and Google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ It’s not funny. That shit has more results than ‘Hannibal Buress.'”
After he landed a show with Comedy Central, he got emails that he “fucking sold out Cosby” — more than 40 women have accused the 78-year-old of raping or drugging them since — but in an interview with Howard Stern he said that was never his intention.
“That wasn’t my intention, to make it a part of a big discussion. It was just something I was doing at that venue right then.” (VIDEO: Bill Cosby Bullies AP Reporter To Delete Rape Question From Interview)
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