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Happy Birthday, Bill Cosby
July. July Twelfth.
So, what's your favorite Cosby routine? Mine, hands down, is "Tonsils", followed immediately by "Chicken Heart".
So, what's your favorite Cosby routine? Mine, hands down, is "Tonsils", followed immediately by "Chicken Heart".
Bill Cosby Nostalgia
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!
Re: Bill Cosby Nostalgia
We had all of those except Air and Russell, and had 200mph and 8:15/12:15 as well.
And, yes, "I told you that story so I could tell you this one," as pedestrian as it looks out of context, is quite possibly the greatest segue I have ever heard.
Re: Bill Cosby Nostalgia