Denis Leary on Bill Cosby: ‘I’m never going to eat Jell-O again’
Comedian Denis Leary has weighed in on the sexual assault allegations facing Bill Cosby, telling the Daily Beast that he is “never going to eat Jell-O again” in response to the situation.
Comedian Denis Leary has weighed in on the sexual assault allegations facing Bill Cosby, telling the Daily Beast that he is "never going to eat Jell-O again" in response to the accusations.
Leary broached the subject beginning with a discussion about how he himself had been criticized by Cosby "for being dirty," much like Richard Pryor, a Cosby rival and Leary's favorite comedian:
I was one of the guys he criticized a few years ago — along with Chris Rock — for being dirty, but it's weird, man. Because he was who he was, and the type of act he developed, and how his last twenty years have been him talking about his family and being a grandfather onstage, it's really weird. It's almost like he's become this adopted American uncle, and now you find our your uncle has been this criminal rapist guy. It's bizarre.
And for Leary, that element of the bizarre is only amplified by Cosby's Quaalude admission that was revealed earlier this week:
You could get Quaaludes fallin' out of people's pockets in the '70s, and this guy had, what, seven prescriptions for Quaaludes? That is a creepy motherf---er. It's just so weird, man. It's really like Jekyll and Hyde.
As a result, Leary says that he will never again be able to "listen to a Bill Cosby bit again from any era." And that ruinous quality is also applied to Leary's own apparent former love for Jell-O, which now just "reminds me of him":
It's going to be impossible for me to listen to a Bill Cosby bit again from any era. F--- the show, the show's dead. And f--- Jell-O. I'm never going to eat Jell-O again. No offense to the Jell-O people, but it just reminds me of him. F---, I don't think I can listen to any of his classic routines because it would automatically bring me back to creepy page one.
Cosby has not been charged in connection with the sexual assault allegations against him. Most recently, the Mural Arts Program confirmed that a North Philly mural featuring the comedian will be scrapped.