Bill Cosby Appearance On Letterman Cancelled Amid Rape Allegations

Bill Cosby won’t appear on CBS’s ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ as scheduled, likely due to increased scrutiny regarding multiple rape allegations against Cosby, though the show declined to state its rationale for the cancellation.

Comedian Bill Cosby won’t make a scheduled appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show with David Letterman” next Wednesday, and a representative for the show said it didn’t comment on its booking procedures. A spokesman for Cosby confirmed the cancellation, but declined to comment why the appearance was scrapped, though it appears to be due to recent attention to rape allegations against the 77-year old Cosby.

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The rape allegations against Cosby aren’t new, but re-entered the spotlight after comedian Hanibal Buress made comments about Cosby, and the 13 women who settled a civil lawsuit with Cosby after alleging he raped them in 2006. The comments went viral, and then one of the women, Barbra Bowman, wrote a column for the Washington Post describing one of her rape, and while she was grateful Buress brought the issue back to the discussion, she wondered why it took 30 years and a man for anyone to believe her. Since Buress’s comments, a second woman, Tamara Green, has publicly shared her story, and both include similar allegations of Cosby drugging the women and then either raping or attempting to rape them.

Cosby didn’t say a word when NPR asked him about the allegations recently (although he has denied the allegations from the previous lawsuit), and while a blog is no court of law, much of the heat on Cosby seems to be justifiable, so it’s likely for the best that Letterman saved us from a really awkward interview, at best.

Bill Cosby won’t appear on CBS’s ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ as scheduled, likely due to increased scrutiny regarding multiple rape allegations against Cosby, though the show declined to state its rationale for the cancellation.

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