Watch Cosby accusers tell all

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Published Nov 26, 2015

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Munya Vomo

When you watch the Crime and Investigation Channel, you’d never expect to bump into Bill Cosby unless, perhaps, he has a random voice-over gig for a show like Through The Wormhole, which Morgan Freeman hosted for Discovery Channel.

But as you will see on December 12, Crime and Investigation will have another narrator voice the story behind the comedian whose reputation has been marred by numerous rape allegations.

The thought-provoking, hour-long series is entitled Bill Cosby: The Women Speak, and as the title suggests, it will have a series of on-camera interviews with some of the comedian’s accusers. These women will give details on how Cosby, at the height of his career, drugged and raped them. The individual stories will reveal the godfather of comedy’s particular methodology that worked for him for decades.

You may ask yourself why he was able to continue for so long and these victims explain all.

Some staunch fans adamantly deny the allegations, but if you listen to what actress Louisa Moritz, publicist Joan Tarshis and model Beverly Johnson have to say, you have to wonder what reason they might have to lie.

Cosby had everything going for him at the height of his career. He shone his light on the plight of black people in the US and changed how they were viewed on TV.

Many shows which came after The Bill Cosby Show were created thanks to that show’s success. Comedians were inspired to try out stand-up thanks to this man who was charming and effortlessly funny. In fact, you would think with all that success, women would throw themselves at him, but the opposite was true.

He probably banked on the fact that he was famous enought that he probably had presidents of the time on speed-dial but if Clinton crashed and burned over similar charges, no one is above the law.

During a time when Cosby should be enjoying a cosy retirement, he is dogged by dark alegations which threaten to obliterate all he ever achieved through his famous show.

 

Bill Cosby: The Women Speak, December 12 at 8.10pm, Crime + Investigation (DStv channel 170).

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