Embattled comedian Bill Cosby officially completed the last leg of his 'Far From Finished' tour on Saturday evening in Atlanta, when hecklers interrupted the funnyman during his set. About 40 minutes into the show, two disrupters, one of which was a woman shouted out to the comedic legend, ""It beats me how you treat -- the way you treat women!"
According to CNN, Cosby was telling a joke about his mother threatening to beat the "bejesus" out of him as a child, when the woman began heckling him. The woman was later met with shouts and boos by those in attendance, as some of the attendees shouted, "Aw come on!", "Go home and go away!"
Cosby shushed the audience and later gestured to the crowd to remain quiet before telling the woman, "This is our show, and it'll be over soon." Twenty minutes earlier, a man stood up and began rambling one-liners at Cosby, both resulting in the funnyman waving off security to allow the hecklers to finish, and even got a kick out of the situation by telling the man, "Do you have 40 more minutes of this?"
Before the show began, the aforementioned woman reportedly stood up in front of the venue, at Cobb Energy Centre, with other protesters. They held signs and shouted "Shame!" at people who were heading into the show to see the comedian.
There's no question that all the negative backlash Cosby has received in the last few months has taken its toll someway or another, as it was reported that only 1,600 people came out to the Cobb Energy Centre – which supposedly fits up to 2,700.
Cosby, 77, has not been officially charged with any of the crimes, and has strongly refuted all of the allegations against him.
Source: CNN | Photo credit: Splash News
