2024 the best of bill cosby review
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(as of Nov 30, 2024 04:43:10 UTC - Details)
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.55 x 0.51 inches; 3.1 ounces
Manufacturer : Flashback - Rhino
Item model number : 6874538
Original Release Date : 2009
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Flashback - Rhino
ASIN : B002UPQ1PG
Number of discs : 1
Reviewer: Kindle Fire Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Regardless WHAT came later. . .
Review: ..Bill Cosby was a Very Funny Fellow. Some of my fondest memories involve listening to this, and other albums he made, back in the 60s, with my friends. Then for weeks/months/years we'd all talk like him and quote favorite lines from the latest, and other, albums. I still remember some of these stories almost verbatim.We couldn't have loved him more, he was our HERO, the funniest man on earth, one who could remember what it was like to BE a kid, all us white early teens, male & female."Snakes! You out there? I'm gonna stick out my toe and you can give it a little snakey lick. But don't bite it! Nothin... You hear me snakes? Nothin... Yeah, I knew it, tryin to scare me... I climbed out of my crib." âBill Cosby, from the album "I Started Out As A Child"
Reviewer: Beatlenik
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 2017 Review: One of Cosby's Greatest Hits
Review: No matter how you feel about Bill Cosby, given recent events, and where you might fall in your beliefs, it is sometimes necessary to separate the artist from the art. From 1963's Very Funny Fellow Right through 1968's Russell My Brother LP's, Bill racked up an incredible catalog of masterpiece comedy albums, all of which were my only spoken word albums, nestled in with my Beatles, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Mamas & Papas, Association, Grass Roots, and eventually Airplane, Dead, and Doors albums. Cosby albums were keepers, often brought out to relive gags and laughs with friends and family. His humor worked for all ages, all genders and ethnicities, Bill Cosby WAS a very funny fellow, Right!My vinyl LPs were long gone from literally being worn down to the plastic scraping sound of a needle in a moat, so a few years ago, before the recent revelations began to creep into the news, and I set out to replace all of them with CD's and did so in one fowl swoop, scooping them all up from Amazon for a terrific price. These CD's have the quality of warm analogue sound the vinyl LP's had, no digital Doppler Shift here, you will be happy with the sound as soon as you hit play!After "the news" my wife and I both had to decide if we had somehow "contributed" to a bad cause. This my friends is faulty thinking. We enjoy our entertainment hopefully without worry of perpetrating malfeasance or injustice in the world. Should we avoid all movies by a certain actor or director because they made insidious comments in a drunken stupor and should we stop entertaining ourselves with the art of personalities when they exhibit, or are accused of exhibiting, criminal behavior? We, you and I, are the observers of the art and not the supporters per se, of the artist's demons. If that were the case, should all Jackson Pollock paintings be destroyed because he was a philandering, foul-mouthed, drunken womanizer who left his family nearly destitute my means of suicide and negligible homicide?I will step down from my soap box now. The fact is plain and simple, these classic Cosby albums are filled with non-stop laugh-out-loud stories which somehow have been kept from being "dated" because they reflect the growing up, coming of age, and relationship stories which are timeless by definition and delightful by sheer delivery. I choose to believe these albums were made during Bill Cosby's highest commitment to his art and to his audience, they certainly reflect that and each of these is a gem from start to finish with the greatest comedic observances you could find in "clean" comedy before the rise of the shock-comic who felt a need to swear with every sentence. Thank you for that Lenny, you won.These are the Bill Cosby albums that one may consider his Greatest Hits (in chronological order):BILL COSBY IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW, RIGHT!I STARTED OUT AS A CHILDWHY IS THERE AIR?WONDERFULNESSREVENGE200 MPHTO RUSSELL MY BROTHER, WHOM I SLEPT WITHIT'S TRUE! IT'S TRUE!This album, To Russell My Brother, happens to be my overwhelming favorite and I believe it is his best story, ever!
Reviewer: A Hermit
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Includes possibly his best bit ever
Review: Recorded at the Chicago Public Auditorium, January 1968, this disc gives us two facets of Bill Cosby: One, the observational comic, and two, the gifted story teller. And I have to say, truthfully, this may have gotten only four stars from me if it didn't change gears by the last track.The first bit has him telling of playing sports; a very quick reference to playing football, and a slightly longer bit about playing baseball and being beaned by a wild pitch. Everybody who has even played a pick-up game in the back yard can identify with this. He then goes on a little about the conflict between the mind and the body; how the mind will ignore the body in critical situations. It's short, but will make you laugh."The Losers" is about his two daughters (this was recorded before his son was born), and this is where the disc starts to pick up steam. Despite the harsh title of this track, he is a doting parent, just crazy in love with his daughters, and even if you aren't a parent (I'm not; I'm an uncle, but there are kids in this house), this bit does strike a chord if you even help with raising a little kid."The Apple," a funny telling of the Adam and Eve story, is slightly out of place here; the material which preceeds and follows it is rooted in modern life, but it still isn't bad. It's just a typical comedian's take on the difference between the sexes: women being manipulative and men being horn-dogs. It's a good bit, just a little out of place.Track 5: Holy crap, is this funny. It's the half-hour title track, "To Russell...," about having to sleep in the same bed as his younger brother every night. Though it is Cosby, alone on a stage, there are three characters featured: Bill himself, his brother Russell, and their father. Early in this segment he talks of his mother, but the story itself focuses on the three males in the house. He voices all three, and it has to be, without a doubt, one of the funniest comedy bits of all time. This is not an exaggeration. I will write this on the assumption the reader hasn't heard this before, and if you haven't, you don't know what you're missing. As the story unfolds, young Bill is playing cruel mind games with Russell, and this escalates into a physical fight. I have heard this hundreds of times over the years, and I STILL laugh very loudly at this. As the night wears on, they are fighting over the covers and everything else, interrupted by the dramatic entrance of their father, and this visit from the parents' room is the first of several. And, apparently, this went on every night. It's a timeless bit, and it never gets old.I don't care what your entertainment tastes are, no music library (this isn't music, I know; you know what I mean) is complete without this. Again, it's Cosby, possibly at his funniest.
Reviewer: David A. Haantz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yeah I know however, without any real conviction and ...
Review: Yeah I know however, without any real conviction and the fact that these women came up to his room and, did not come forward to years later still brings some doubt. However, i dont condone driving someone without their permission. Moreover, what he did was not out and out rape. I did not hear about the trauma that a forced rape victim has suffered from. Not from any of the women. I will say this, if statue of limitations had not run out. He should go to jail. I guess he always dreamed of being a comic and having some Spanish Fly. I grew up in a middle class areas most of my life. And at the age of 13, most horney guys heard of the mistical Spanish Fly. I am NOT, defending his actions. But I will defend his comedy.
Reviewer: Landon Groh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Exactly what I remember from the record I had lost
Reviewer: Ralph McCandles
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Classic Bill,one of his funniest sketches, for anyone who shared a bedroom with a sibling.
Reviewer: Emma
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: As advertised