(insert deep sigh)
With a new supposed Bill Cosby rape victim surfacing yesterday (Nov. 17), now is really bad timing for digging up throwback stand-up bits about drugging girls’ drinks, but Village Voice has done just that by referencing a clip from his It’s True! It’s True! Describing an elixir called “Spanish Fly,” Cosby jokes that “you put some in her drink she’ll be like blahrghrghhhh.”
After one alleged victim, Barbara Bowman, wrote an Op-Ed piece about her experience for The Washington Post, as second victim, Joan Tarshis, now claims to have suffered the same fate. Detailing a story from 1969, Tarshis also claimed Cosby “always topped my Bloody Mary’s with beer, which he called a ‘redeye.’” Her account follows an interview in which Cosby was probed about the allegations, just two days earlier.
Cosby’s lawyer has assured that the comedian “will not dignify these allegations with any comment.” Listen to his 1969 bit above.