Hmm ... Bill Cosby routines. Gosh, I haven't heard most of these since I left home back in the 1970s.
Our family procured a large number of Cosby monologues on vinyl (remember vinyl?) records: I Started Out as a Child; Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow: Right!; Wonderfulness; Why Is There Air?; Revenge; To Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With come to mind.
Probably my favorites (while growing up) were "Noah!" and "Buck, Buck" (with "Revenge") coming in a close third. The title track of To Russell was almost too close to home.
But Cosby's story-telling made us all laugh ourselves to tears. It was my first introduction to the full power of this form of the spoken word.
My gosh, I haven't listened to any of these monologues told from start to finish in decades. Favorite quotes (paraphrased from a faulty memory): "Noah! I want you build Me an Ark! ..."; "My mother had thrown the snowball away."; "Ooohhh ... YOU broke the bed!"; "Every phys-ed major knows why there's air! There's air to blow up basketballs, there's air to blow up volleyballs! That's why there's air!"; "I told you that story in order to tell you this one."
And, I see those recordings are now on CD. Temptation.
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Bill Cosby Nostalgia
Date: 2006-07-12 02:41 pm (UTC)Our family procured a large number of Cosby monologues on vinyl (remember vinyl?) records: I Started Out as a Child; Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow: Right!; Wonderfulness; Why Is There Air?; Revenge; To Russell My Brother, Whom I Slept With come to mind.
Probably my favorites (while growing up) were "Noah!" and "Buck, Buck" (with "Revenge") coming in a close third. The title track of To Russell was almost too close to home.
But Cosby's story-telling made us all laugh ourselves to tears. It was my first introduction to the full power of this form of the spoken word.
My gosh, I haven't listened to any of these monologues told from start to finish in decades. Favorite quotes (paraphrased from a faulty memory): "Noah! I want you build Me an Ark! ..."; "My mother had thrown the snowball away."; "Ooohhh ... YOU broke the bed!"; "Every phys-ed major knows why there's air! There's air to blow up basketballs, there's air to blow up volleyballs! That's why there's air!"; "I told you that story in order to tell you this one."
And, I see those recordings are now on CD. Temptation.
Happy birthday, Bill!