“We deserve to dance like no one’s watching. And watch like no one’s raping,” she tells the jury in an Inside Amy Schumer sketch.
On the May 26 episode of Inside Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer addressed the rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby by staging a trial in which she played Cosby's lawyer.
In October 2014, comedian Hannibal Buress joked about the beloved actor and comedian being a rapist during a stand-up set, which prompted Cosby's alleged victims to come forward with their experiences being taken advantage of by Cosby.
"Hannibal, the comedian who's my good friend, was the one who kind of brought it to light. And he was just doing a set and then it became a story," Schumer said during a panel after an April screening of Inside Amy Schumer at the Tribeca Film Festival. "It was, I guess, a slow news day. And he called me right after and he was like, 'Ugh.' And I was like, 'Oh my god. It's gonna go away so fast. Don't even worry about it.' He called me a month later and he was like, 'Yeah, it didn't go away like we thought it would.'"
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The sketch, written by Inside Amy Schumer's head writer and executive producer Jessi Klein, opens with the prosecutor finishing up her closing arguments.
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Then it's Schumer's turn to defend Cosby. She opens her argument by playing some music and dancing to make the jury "feel happy."
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And uses a lot of air quotes to make sure the jury knows this is all "alleged."
"We would get in real heated debates in the writers' room," Schumer said at the Tribeca Film Festival panel of the sketch. "No one was like, 'I don't think [Cosby] did it.' It was none of that … But it was just like very different views."
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