I saw Cosby live last year--I was nearly crying I was laughing so hard! He went completely improv for the first 15-20 minutes of his performance when he started chatting with the backstage guy who brought him some water and found some terrific hilarity in this man's life story.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Kathy A - Nov 04, 2009 4:45:36 pm PST #1823 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2009 4:58:53 pm PST #1824 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bill Cosby was my first serious comedy experience. Before Python, before the Muppet Show. I have very, very dim memories of his first show where he was a teacher (and he re-used a number of his routines). Then, of course, there was Fat Albert. But I was already listening to the records by then.
I've even heard a semi-adult show he did. Not quite working blue, but seriously purple given his usual stuff (a bit beyond the drug stuff he did in Himself).
DavidS - Nov 04, 2009 5:03:23 pm PST #1825 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My first introduction to Cosby was the albums that a friend's family had.
I vividly remember "Buck Buck" and the downhill go-kart race and the Chicken Heart.
Later research showed that Buck Buck was a children's game that went back to ancient Rome.
Oh yeah - and the sabre-tooth tiger with a lisp!
Kathy A - Nov 04, 2009 5:44:09 pm PST #1826 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My grandparents had two of his albums, which were the first comedy albums I ever heard.
I loved his riff on "what if there was an umpire to flip a coin before various battles in history?"
"Colonel Custer, this is Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull, this is Colonel Custer. Call the coin there, Cus'. Colonel Custer called 'heads,' this is 'tails.' You have the call there, Sit. All right, Sitting Bull says that you and your men have to stay down there in the hollow while he and all the Indians in the world ride right down on you."
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2009 5:55:38 pm PST #1827 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Heh - that reminds me of his Lone Ranger and Tonto bit.
"Tonto! Don't go to TOWN!!!!!"
Laga - Nov 04, 2009 6:37:11 pm PST #1828 of 8624
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That's a weird looking dog you got there, does he bite?
No, but he'll ram the hell out of you.
Vortex - Nov 04, 2009 6:48:42 pm PST #1829 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The theme music!
Frankenbuddha - Nov 05, 2009 3:49:06 am PST #1830 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Faster! Faster! You fool! You fool!"
Kathy A - Nov 05, 2009 5:11:58 am PST #1831 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The other album my grandparents had had the bit about the time the young Bill found a frog with an awesome croak that sounded like a burp. So, he put the frog in his front pocket, and went to his friends. "'Hey, Weird Harold, I betcha 50 cents my leg can burp!' 'Bet!' 'BRRRRRGGGHHHHPPP!' I made twenty dollars that day, with my burping leg."
smonster - Nov 05, 2009 9:49:17 am PST #1832 of 8624
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I can still recite large chunks of the "dentist" routine. We used to listen to that cassette on family trips.
"Ibe... Ibe wabus wonderububing..."