Discussing the ordeals of the "Into the Woods" characters, Poehler said, "Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby." The date-rape joke drew audible groans from the audience; apparently, the allegations against the no-longer-beloved comedy legend are just too squirm-inducing to be funny. Yet Poehler and Fey kept riffing on the topic, mocking Cosby’s often over-emphatic pronunciation of the letter P as each co-host tried to imitate how the comic might say, "I ppput the pppills in the pppeoppple." Not that Cosby should be off-limits as a subject for comedy — indeed, the current scandal started because Hannibal Buress did a stand-up routine about the long history of allegations against Cosby — but ick.
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