'Black-ish' Creator Kenya Barris Appropriately Calls Out Judd Apatow for Bill Cosby Obsession

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | December 30, 2014 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | December 30, 2014 |

If you haven’t been following along, Judd Apatow has been ranting about Bill Cosby all week, and it’s well-intentioned ranting. Apatow believes that Bill Cosby is a monster, he’s been berating venues that have booked Cosby (though, apparently, it’s very difficult to “unbook” him) and even attacking Bill Cosby defenders on Twitter because Apatow clearly doesn’t have a lot going on during the holidays. Apatow’s mind is in the right place, but at a certain point, it becomes overkill, as Black-ish creator Kenya Barris pointed out to him in a series of Tweets taking Apatow to task for making jokes on Twitter along the lines of ” “I am pretty sure I have had sex with less people than he raped.”

Granted, my first instinct here was to think, “Dude. Lay off Apatow. Who the fuck cares about Cosby?” But the more of Barris’ tweets I read, the more I began to understand what he’s getting at. He makes a good point, too.

@JuddApatow - dude. Enough. Not defending him AT ALL, but u do realize this borders on strangely obsessive, right? Where was ur#EricGarner

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow - #FergusonDecision #ICantBreathe #PakistanSchoolAttack #donaldsterling #3rdactoffunnypeople tweets?

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow -I mean ur a comedy god but u have an extremely narrowband and privileged scope for ur powerful rage. He's probably a monster…

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow -I mean ur a comedy god but u have an extremely narrowband and privileged scope for ur powerful rage. He's probably a monster…

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow -but as we have seen recently, nothing is true till it is & he's thru. Done. Stop kicking. It's like ur getn some sick pleasure

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow - from watching a black man who meant so much for so many fall. Fuck him. Seriously. Just take equal shots at all the demons.

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow - and stop showing the most fucked off 1 sided view of black people n every thing you ever do. #romany #rza #craig are THE SHIT

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow - but ur depiction of them & lack of true context 2 these characters in ur personal life makes ur Cosby (fuck him) remarks odd.

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow -I'm sorry 2 use a public forum to say this to 1 of my idols but I think it's important to take a moment 2 say "we get it, Judd"

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

@JuddApatow - finally, I want 2 say that ur a genius, national treasure, maverick, & will probably now deservedly ruin my fledgling career.

— kenya barris (@funnyblackdude) December 30, 2014

And that’s how you respectfully take down an idol (Apatow hasn’t responded yet, but I suspect that he’s a reasonable guy who will also see and understand the point that Barris is making).

p.s. Black-ish is a great fucking show.

via: THR