What's been keeping Bill Cosby in the news? Bill Cosby, mostly
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If Cosby's social media team hadn't made that colossal #CosbyMeme blunder, people might have just forgotten about it again.
Hannibal Buress' "Bill Cosby is a rapist" bit is now famous, after a clip of it from a show at the Trocadero last month started the ball rolling on what appears to be turning into the end of Cosby's career.
Transcribed:
It's even worse because Bill Cosby has the fuckin' smuggest old black man persona that I hate ... He gets on TV, 'Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!' Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches. ...
I've done this bit on stage and people think I'm making it up.... when you leave here, google 'Bill Cosby rape.' That shit has more results than 'Hannibal Buress.'
We thought it might be interesting to look at Google Trends for how many people actually were Googling 'Bill Cosby rape.' It turned up some interesting data — including that, if Cosby's social media team hadn't made that colossal #CosbyMeme blunder, people might have just forgotten about it for the 15th or 16th time.
(And, if you haven't been paying attention, this is a decent Cliff's Notes for the recent stuff. For a primer on the earlier stuff, check out Vulture's timeline of the whole thing.)
