Janis Ian Thanks The Tonight Show for Ignoring Bill Cosby
New York cover story prompts singer to share her own "Cosby memory."
In addition to the harrowing personal testimonies being shared on Twitter in response to the New York magazine cover story, with the hashtag #TheEmptyChair, there have been pointed reactions posted on Facebook.
One of the most notable belongs to singer-songwriter Janis Ian. She explains that in 1967, when she was 16, her appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show was complicated by the meddling of Bill Cosby. He spied her asleep in the lap of a female adult chaperone, made an erroneous same-sex-couple leap of logic and, according to Ian, put the word out in TV land that she was not “suitable family entertainment.”
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