Fresh from seeing his latest comedy, Trainwreck, open big in the US, Judd Apatow appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night, to perform a standup comedy routine for the first time since he stopped aged 24 years old (he’s 47 now). Not surprisingly, Apatow, who’s been making headlines for slamming Bill Cosby on Twitter and in interviews, mocked the comic and alleged rapist, during his four-minute segment.
After launching into jokes about his bad looks and not being that famous, Apatow let loose his Cosby routine.
“Cosby is still out on the road,” he said. “Isn’t that weird? He’s, like, doing standup? What do you think his act is like? Do you think he’s still talking about it? Do you think he says, [impersonating Cosby] ‘Have you ever been in trouble with the wife? Did you ever get into the doghouse with the wife over something that you did? Like the other day, there was something about me in the paper; I didn’t want my wife to read the paper, so I snuck out into the driveway at five in the morning to get the paper. I hid the paper, and the next day I got up and hid the paper, and the next day … I forgot to get the paper! My wife, she said to me, ‘What is this in the paper about the raping, the drugging and the women? And I said, ‘Do you like your life? Do you like the house and the jet? Well then have a cappuccino and shut the fuck up!’”
During an event last week in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Lena Dunham, who works with Apatow on HBO’s Girls, called the director Cosby’s “No 1 enemy”.
“I think he’s symbolic of something that’s important,” Apatow said of the comedian during the discussion. “I feel like women just not being listened to is what’s scariest. Bill Cosby is just a symbol for a situation that’s just so obvious, and yet people don’t stand up and say, ‘This is crazy, we should do something about it.’”
