Bill Cosby "Himself"

Artist: Bill Cosby
Label: Motown
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 737463536448
EAN: 0737463536448
ASIN: B000001AGX

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

Dentist
Natural Child Birth
Brain Damage
Kill the Boy
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast
Same Thing Happens Every Night
Grandparents

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Customer Reviews:

Cosby at his best.......2005-09-26

This is a very short CD, but has some of Cosby's best material. There are not many comedy recordings that you can enjoy with the whole family, this is one of them. It's great that my 9-year-old son thinks it's funny too!

3rd generation now laughing .......2005-07-30

My brother and I used to listen to Bill Cosby records on our partents' Hi-Fi, and we laughed til we cried. When I talk with my own kids I often make references to "Brain Damage" or "The Chicken Heart" or "Lombard Street", and they don't know what I'm talking about...you know the weird look they give you, "whatever mom". So I bought the CDs of all of Cosby's early skits and now THEY'RE quoting "Noah" and singing their own go-cart songs. In a time when I have to check every video game, CD and book for parental warning lables, these CDs present a wonderful opportunity for me to connect with my kids in a family friendly environment. The topics are as fresh and timely as they were in the 60's and I can count on Bill to keep it rated G. I recommend you purchase a couple or all of the CDs and have a good laugh with a generation that doesn't even know what a record is. Have fun!

The quintessential Bill Cosby comedy album.......2004-08-29

I still have vivid memories of being a kid and watching Bill Cosby do his The Dentist sketch on a show called Solid Gold. It was easily the funniest thing I had ever heard in my life, and I went around telling everyone just how hilarious Bill Cosby was. At the time, I only knew Cosby from his Picture Pages segments on Captain Kangaroo and the Fat Albert cartoons, and I actually felt like some type of visionary when a little television vehicle called The Cosby Show debuted soon thereafter based to a large degree on the comedy you will find on this album (and the longer video from which these tracks were taken). A few of the skits in this performance were translated almost directly to the screen in the show's first few episodes.

Bill Cosby, Himself video is hilarious; I still laugh every time I listen to it, no matter how many times I've heard the routines. There was a time when I practically had The Dentist memorized. Cosby's humor resonates so well with audiences because he is describing and joking about things we all know and understand to some degree. He doesn't need to use foul language or tell dirty jokes in order to reach his audience. He just comes in and starts talking about the humorous things in life.

The comic material on Bill Cosby, Himself, deals primarily with family life - marriage, children, etc. He makes the birth of his first child a hilarious journey into the delivery room, explains that parents lose a lot of their intellect as they age because of the frustrating brain damage that afflicts all of their children, explains how differently his parents treat his own children compared to the way they treated him, and describes quite vividly some of the antics of his own five children over the years.

Bill Cosby knows people, and he knows what will make them laugh; he is also one of the greatest storytellers in the world. He is at his funniest here, and I really can't imagine there is anyone out there who would not enjoy listening to Bill Cosby, Himself. If you loved The Cosby Show, you will definitely love this album.

Silly Bill Cosby is heard but of course,not seen.......2004-03-12

This album is an edited audio version of the motion picture "Bill Cosby Himself", I don't have the CD but I do have the LP with the original cover photo. This album was recorded live in Ontario,Canada like the motion picture. Some of the dialogue is different from what's heard in the movie. For example,at the end of track 6 of the CD,SAME THING HAPPENS EVERY NIGHT which the second track on side 2 of the LP,Cosby says,"This woman(his wife Camille) graduated from college." That line is not heard in the film. Obviously,that was an outtake. Also on the fifth track of the CD and the first on side 2 of the LP,CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR BREAKFAST,the opening line is "My wife woke me up six o'clock in the morning." In the film he said "four". So he mentioned "six" in another performance that was either not recorded or recorded but not used. See the VHS version of this title for the details of all seven routines. This album is on the Motown label,which originally had a black clientele. Cosby first recorded on Warner Bros. in 1963 when his show business career began. In or around 1970,he was dropped by WB,and from then on recorded on Tetragammaton,a label which he co-owned,the defunct Uni,Capitol,Motown and Geffen.

Why?.......2002-10-22

I caught this performance on tv a little over 20 years ago and was pleased to find that it had been released on cd. It is disappointing.
WHY WAS SO MUCH OF THIS GREAT PERFORMANCE CUT OUT OF THE CD? AND WHO'S IDEA WAS IT?
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Get the video instead. For those of us who want to listen to BILL COSBY "HIMSELF" on long car trips, alas, (sigh), we shall have to wait for someone to release an uncut version.

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