Larry Wilmore Helpfully Defines the Word ‘Rapist’ for Bill Cosby

Yesterday’s dual slaps in the face to Bill Cosby on the covers of New York Magazine and the New York Post gave The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore a chance to dive back into the comedian’s alleged history of serial rape. And in an educational segment titled “Word Blerd,” Wilmore attempted to help out Cosby by defining the word “rapist.”

As Wilmore sees it, there are three possibilities for Cosby’s strange defense strategy: 1) He “absolutely knows he raped these women and is lying and covering it up.” 2) “Please refer to number one.” 3) “Cosby does not consider his actions to be rape and he’s just having a vocabulary issue.”

With that, Wilmore defined “rapist” as someone who “commits an unlawful sexual act with our without force on another person without their consent.” He added that a person who is “physically or mentally incapacitated whether by alcohol, drugs or being asleep is unable to consent.”

That means that when Cosby gave women Quaaludes or “disco biscuits,” as he called them, to knock them out, it is considered rape. “I don’t care if you call them rock and roll scones or jazz crumpets, it’s still rape,” Wilmore said.

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

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