Happy Birthday, Bill Cosby

[filkertom]

July. July Twelfth.

So, what's your favorite Cosby routine? Mine, hands down, is "Tonsils", followed immediately by "Chicken Heart".

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[dhstein.livejournal.com]

You can't beat chicken heart - but I also like the Chocolate cake bit

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Noah...

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Hm... I don't know if I have a single favorite. "Karate" and "Little Tiny Hairs", in addition to the ones already mentioned, are among my favorites.

[aiela.livejournal.com]

The chocolate cake one is fantastic, as well as the one about getting kids to shower. I recently heard the one about being a Boy Scout in the City and that one cracked me up, too.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to have an icecream truck that drove through town playing "ICE CREAM! WE'RE GONNA EAT ICECREAM!!!" rather than some silly tinkly music.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I always liked "The Lone Ranger": "You go to hell, Kemosabee."
And, of course, "Noah!"

Gotta pull that snowball out of the freezer today.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

And make sure you call someone a "Gunkie" today.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the title is, but it was about scaring his buddies at the top of the stairs.

Followed by the one about the water balloons, the fire escape, and Fat Albert with his arms full of grocery bags.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

"200 MPH", "Go Carts" (Frump, Frrrump..), but its got to be "Chicken Heart"

[kshandra]

o/` ICE cream! We're gonna eat ICE cream! And then we'll eat it every day (and in the middle of the night....) o/`

murphymom had several of his albums as I was growing up, and there was a period where I could quote them all line for line. As you might imagine, I have a considerable soft spot for "Driving In San Francisco." But, really, I don't think anything of his has ever come close to the "Noah" trilogy.

"I'm not goin' back out there! You change one of 'em!"

[kshandra]

200 MPH

"My scarf...had left me."

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Riiight...

Gotta be The Dentist from "Himself".

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

"Ribbins?! You want me to ribbins? How can I ribbins if I don't hab a bottom lib?!"

A close second would be Oops! from the same album. (IIRC)

There are so many good ones to choose from though.

"How did you die?"
"Me and a volkswagen drifted backwards into the bay."
"You, you go to hell."

;-)

[bigtig.livejournal.com]

"But Daaaaad. I'm Jesus Christ."

Bill Cosby Nostalgia

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

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.

Happy birthday, Bill!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

"Carol Burnett once described labour pain. She said....'Take your bottom lip, and pull it up over your head."

I think my faovurite Cos album of all time is 8:15/12:15. Especially the bits about golf on television.

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

The first one is from "Buck, Buck." It introduced Fat Albert to the unsuspecting world.

Easy

[nezmaster.livejournal.com]

Old weird harold. The bit about frankenstien, which is two bits wratpped together. "It was a medium kid on top of a tall skinny kid beating him with s stick yelling faster faster you fool you fool!."
Second place: My Dad's Car
Third Place: Noah

[bizarra.livejournal.com]

My favorite is "To Russell my brother, with whom I slept." We used to listen to that when we were little and its still hilarious to me!

Oh yeah..

[nezmaster.livejournal.com]

I got buck buck and old weird haorld mixed together sometimes because they are both aobut Frankenstien, and buck buck is two stories, so I put them together.
So my revised list is now
Old Wierd Harold
Buck Buck
My Dad's Car..

[kshandra]

Cool - someone else has heard 8:15/12:15. I love the bit where he's reading the postcard.... "We're drinking their best champagne like we're rich."

[lizard-sf.livejournal.com]

I'd have to go with childbirth, though the whole 'dammit/jesus christ' bit was funny, too.

[reyl.livejournal.com]

What's a cubit?

Re: Bill Cosby Nostalgia

[kshandra]

Our family procured a large number of Cosby monologues on vinyl

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.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

It's a good day to have a birthday. Besides Bill Cosby and me, there's Henry David Thoreau, Julius Caesar (that date might be debatable), pianist Glenn Gould, skater Kristi Yamaguchi, actress Cheryl Ladd, and maniac exercise guru Richard Simmons.

My favorite Cos routine is probably "Why is there air?"