Bill Cosby’s spokesman ripped into Eddie Murphy after the comic mocked Cosby during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
“If you had told me 30 years ago that I would be this boring stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I would’ve took that bet,” said Murphy to cheers from the SNL audience.
Murphy continued by joking, “Who’s America’s dad now?”
Murphy, 58, and Cosby, 82, have maintained a highly volatile relationship over the last few decades. A spokesman for Cosby released a scathing reaction to Murphy’s comments through Instagram late Sunday night.
“Mr. Cosby became the first Black to win an Emmy for his role in I Spy and Mr. Cosby broke color barriers in the Entertainment Industry, so that Blacks like Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappell, Kevin Hart and et al., could have an opportunity to showcase their talents for many generations to come,” the document read.
“One would think that Mr. Murphy was given his freedom to leave the plantation, so that he could make his own decisions; but he decided to sell himself back to being a Hollywood Slave,” the post continued.
Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, stemming from his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting women.
