Editing Bill Cosby (section)

=== Hannibal Buress remarks (October 2014) ===
[[File:7.29.12HannibalBuressByEzmosis.jpg|thumb|179x179px|In a 2014 stand-up act, [[Hannibal Buress]] (pictured) publicly accused Cosby of rape]]
On October 16, 2014, as part of a comedy routine in Philadelphia, [[Hannibal Buress]] addressed Cosby's legacy of "talk[ing] down" to young black men about their mode of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor's public moralizing by saying: "Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches."

The audience appeared to respond to Buress's accusation as an incredulous joke, then he encouraged everyone to search "Bill Cosby rape" on Google when they got home. Buress had been using the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response,<ref name="cbs_buress">{{cite news |date=November 18, 2014 |title=Who is Hannibal Buress, and why did he call Bill Cosby a 'rapist'? |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-did-he-call-bill-cosby-a-rapist/ |access-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref> but word of the October performance spread rapidly after being posted on [[Philadelphia (magazine)|''Philadelphia'']] magazine's website.<ref name="VultureTimelineOfAccusations">{{cite web |last1=Giles |first1=Matt |last2=Jones |first2=Nate |date=March 3, 2015 |title=A Timeline of the Abuse Charges Against Bill Cosby [Updated] |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/timeline-of-the-abuse-charges-against-cosby.html |access-date=April 24, 2015 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |publisher=Vulture.com}}</ref><ref name="PhillyMagBuressRoutineVideo">{{cite web |last1=McQuade |first1=Dan |date=October 17, 2014 |title=Hannibal Buress on Bill Cosby: You're a Rapist |url=http://www.phillymag.com/ticket/2014/10/17/hannibal-buress-bill-cosby-rapist/ |access-date=April 24, 2015 |work=Philadelphia Magazine |publisher=Phillymag.com |quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="LATimesReBuressRole">{{cite news |last1=Braxton |first1=Greg |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Comic Hannibal Buress is low-key on his role in Bill Cosby firestorm |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-hannibal-buress-20141124-story.html#page=1 |access-date=April 24, 2015}}</ref> Media coverage intensified, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his routine, a "teflon image" despite more than a decade of public sexual abuse accusations.<ref name="nbc_cosby_why">{{cite news |date=November 17, 2014 |title=Why Are Old Assault Claims Against Bill Cosby Back? |work=CBS News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/why-are-old-assault-claims-against-bill-cosby-back-n250161 |access-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref><ref name="accusertable_bowman">{{cite news |date=November 13, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/13/bill-cosby-raped-me-why-did-it-take-30-years-for-people-to-believe-my-story/ |access-date=September 30, 2015}}* '''Accompanying video''': {{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Erin |last2=McKenna |first2=Ewen |date=November 13, 2014 |title='I will not live in silence anymore' about Bill Cosby |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/i-will-not-live-in-silence-anymore-about-bill-cosby/2014/11/13/d7aad67c-6b88-11e4-bafd-6598192a448d_video.html |access-date=January 10, 2016}}</ref>

Shortly afterward, ''[[USA Today]]'' reported that either Cosby or his representative posted a request for Twitter followers to "Go ahead. [[Internet meme|Meme]] me!" The tweet was deleted after a large number of the submitted [[Streisand effect|memes made reference to the accusations against Cosby]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Durando |first=Jessica |date=November 10, 2014 |title=Bill Cosby meme generator backfires on social media |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/11/10/bill-cosby-meme-generator/18832081/ |access-date=April 30, 2018 |work=USA Today}}</ref>