As Time reports, actress and comedian Tina Fey was taking shots at Bill Cosby rape allegations nearly a decade ago.
In the video, below, you can watch Fey and Amy Poehler joking about a lawsuit alleging that “Cosby had tried to molest a California lawyer” during a 2005 Weekend Update bit on Saturday Night Live.
Fey began the sketch reporting that:
A California lawyer alleged Wednesday that thirty years ago, Bill Cosby drugged her and tried to molest her, and after she fought back, he dropped two hundred-dollar bills on a table and fled. Cosby says he can’t be held responsible for his actions, since at the time he was suffering from, “the brain damage”.
Poehler asked if comedian Kenan Thompson would be coming out as Cosby to defend himself, Fey replied that Thompson couldn’t speak out “because of the Fat Albert and the money and the sequels.” Poehler added that “of course he can’t talk about the boobies, and the groping, and the pudding pops.”
Time notes that this “punchline speaks to the reason it took so long for people in the industry to criticize Cosby — a powerful comedian with an intimidating legacy.”
Fey took another jab at Cosby on her television show 30 Rock back in 2009. A Time reports:
In an episode called “The Bubble,” Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) threatens to quit TGS, and Jack (Alec Baldwin) tries to lure him back. One strategy Jack uses is getting a coworker to do a Bill Cosby impression on the phone.
But when he hears the Cosby impression, Tracy becomes enraged: “Bill Cosby, you got a lotta nerve gettin’ on the phone wit’ me after what you did to my Aunt Paulette!” he yells. When the confused impressionist says Tracy must be confusing him with someone else, Tracy shoots back, “1971. Cincinnati. She was a cocktail waitress with the droopy eye!”
Time concludes their article noting that “Though it took many years, criticism from people inside the industry like Fey may have helped to empower Cosby’s alleged victims to speak out about what happened to them. It was Hannibal Burress, a 30 Rock writing alum, who helped kick off the recent Cosby debate with a stand-up routine he did on Cosby that circulated in October.”
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