Post by Conrad Poohs on Apr 29, 2007 14:23:47 GMT
The Cos is a comedic gawd.
I grew up listening to Bill Cosby, as I think all American children should. The routines we listened to were clean and safe for kids, yet funny as he**.
I can't even begin to cite the good stuff; there's too much of it.
I think we listened to him incessantly because my mother was an avid "I, Spy" fan that Cos co-starred in, along with Robert Culp (whom I found out years later my mother was very much enamoured of). That show must've been heaven-on-earth for my mother, with two awesomely great guys to watch every week.
Oh yeah, here's a good one... Toss of a coin. He ponders what it would've been like if events in history had been determined by a toss of a coin, heads or tails.
I'm citing this from memory, so please to forgive:
The colonists against the British. The Americans win the toss. They decide, "The British will walk down the road in bright red coats in a straight line, while the Americans will wear green and brown and shoot from behind rocks and trees."
Little Big Horn: the Indians win the toss against General Custer and his men. "The white man will be in a group at the bottom of the hills, while every Indian in the world rides down on top of them."
I played that segment for my old neighbor, an American Indian, and he just about died laughing.
Before Cos was on "I, Spy," he had no acting experience. His first few efforts were pretty bad, but Robert Culp (who IMO is one of the greatest actors of all time) took him under his wing, because he saw some great potential there. It's easy to see as the series progresses how Cos's acting improves tremendously. He said of Culp, "He could make mincemeat out of me if he felt like it, but he's been very unselfish and a tremendous help."
The above quote is from a book about Cosby, "Cool Cos," as is this picture:
I'd highly recommend "Noah: Right!" and "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow" for starters (the album titles). "To Russell, my brother, whom I slept with" is good too, if very long. One side is 26 minutes long, which to a child is interminable. We'd set it to play, lay down in the dark and listen to it.
The Noah skits (there are three of them) are a scream, when God and Noah are talking. "Have you seen the bottom of that ark? NO! Who's going to clean that mess down there?" "Two mosquitoes, male and female." About the rabbits: "Only two, only two!"
"A nut in every car" is about the high comedy one can find on a daily basis on a public transit train (you folks who use the Tube could appreciate this, I'm sure.) One's about an old lady trying to take a seat from a bum, when she beats him with her cane.
If you're not familiar with Cos's comedy, please, give it a listen.
I grew up listening to Bill Cosby, as I think all American children should. The routines we listened to were clean and safe for kids, yet funny as he**.
I can't even begin to cite the good stuff; there's too much of it.
I think we listened to him incessantly because my mother was an avid "I, Spy" fan that Cos co-starred in, along with Robert Culp (whom I found out years later my mother was very much enamoured of). That show must've been heaven-on-earth for my mother, with two awesomely great guys to watch every week.
Oh yeah, here's a good one... Toss of a coin. He ponders what it would've been like if events in history had been determined by a toss of a coin, heads or tails.
I'm citing this from memory, so please to forgive:
The colonists against the British. The Americans win the toss. They decide, "The British will walk down the road in bright red coats in a straight line, while the Americans will wear green and brown and shoot from behind rocks and trees."
Little Big Horn: the Indians win the toss against General Custer and his men. "The white man will be in a group at the bottom of the hills, while every Indian in the world rides down on top of them."
I played that segment for my old neighbor, an American Indian, and he just about died laughing.
Before Cos was on "I, Spy," he had no acting experience. His first few efforts were pretty bad, but Robert Culp (who IMO is one of the greatest actors of all time) took him under his wing, because he saw some great potential there. It's easy to see as the series progresses how Cos's acting improves tremendously. He said of Culp, "He could make mincemeat out of me if he felt like it, but he's been very unselfish and a tremendous help."
The above quote is from a book about Cosby, "Cool Cos," as is this picture:
I'd highly recommend "Noah: Right!" and "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow" for starters (the album titles). "To Russell, my brother, whom I slept with" is good too, if very long. One side is 26 minutes long, which to a child is interminable. We'd set it to play, lay down in the dark and listen to it.
The Noah skits (there are three of them) are a scream, when God and Noah are talking. "Have you seen the bottom of that ark? NO! Who's going to clean that mess down there?" "Two mosquitoes, male and female." About the rabbits: "Only two, only two!"
"A nut in every car" is about the high comedy one can find on a daily basis on a public transit train (you folks who use the Tube could appreciate this, I'm sure.) One's about an old lady trying to take a seat from a bum, when she beats him with her cane.
If you're not familiar with Cos's comedy, please, give it a listen.
