Bill Cosby, Himself
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Movie Reviews of Bill Cosby, Himself
Movie Review: Bill Cosby is Still Himself, These Days.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was three years old when Dr. Cosby gave this performance for HBO. The following year came the first season of The Cosby Show. It took me over twenty years to learn how closely connected Bill Cosby Himself was to the creation (and duration) of The Cosby Show (especially the pilot episode). For me during the 80's, it only mattered that this special didn't include Phylicia, Sabrina, Lisa, Malcolm, Tempestt or Keshia. (And of course, there wasn't Geoffrey, Deon or Raven.)
Then, we entered the 90's, and I fully awoke to the differences between situation comedy, film comedy and - ta da - stand-up comedy. Once I finally got the gist of stand-up routines, this show made all the sense in the world. And, I fully grew to love it. One of my favorite moments in the show is the segment, "Natural Childbirth." (It wasn't until right before I purchased my copy that I learned the origin of the cheer, "Push him out, shove him out, way out," which would appear in the Cosby Show pilot.) But, the reason I loved that segment best is that one of my siblings and I used to imitate Dr. Cosby's vigorous Lamaze breathing ("Push, push!). Between that chapter and the Dentistry topic, I almost started calling Bill "Bottom-Lip Cosby."
When this show was first recorded, I was so curious what it was like to fly on an airplane. After watching the "Little Jeffrey' chapter, I'm glad I didn't. I may not have behaved any better as a four-year-old than that kid, if I'd flown. Now, in my adulthood, that experience would just imbrue my joyous childhood recollections - even though I may have behaved no better than Dr. Cosby's actual children behaved. Now, how did some of you other Pepsi Generation kids behave with your parents or each other?
[And, it's not too often that you see envelope-controlled floodlights whose amplitude rises and falls based on what comes out of Bill's microphone.]
Well, it's time to head for the dentist. As the good doctor says, "Thank God for gravity!"
[On the way home, I'll probably stop at the pub to fill up my leg with liquar and befriend the toilet bowl. HA!!!]
Movie Review: You will laugh so hard you will cry!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was so happy to find out this was coming out on DVD. I owned the video of this and watched it so much I ended up wearing the tape out. This to me is Bill Cosby at his stand up best. After all these years I still find myself laughing hard, with tears running down my face like it's the first time I've seen his performance. Bill Cosby is an awesome story teller. Hiss set is simple. The stage, and a chair. He tells a story and he really has something to talk about. Unlike some of the comedians to today that cuss to fill in the space where they ran out of things to say. Bill Cosby knew how to be funny without all the foul language.
I love it when he talks about his wife going into labor and grabbing his bottom lip and lifting it over his head screaming "I want morphine!!!!!" "Mom can't have drugs; the father can have all the drugs he wants." He talks about how his parents want to get into heaven and treats the grandchildren better then they treated him as a child. Brain damaged children, feeding chocolate cake to the children for breakfast. How fathers are more fun then Moms because fathers are allowed to have gas. The Baby poo poo. He talks about being high and laughing for no reason. Drugs and paranoia, Getting drunk, going to the Dentist. Brain Damaged children saying "I don't know" when you ask them a question.
You can appreciate the material because you can relate to it. Some of what Bill talks about you may have experience yourself, and now you can laugh about it if you did not laugh about it before. Granted the sound quality is not the best, but considering this was taped in 1982 you can't really be too upset. Just turn up the volume and enjoy!!! This is a wonderful, wonderful DVD you should own to round out your stand up comedy collection. You will watch this over and over, and laugh each time you view this DVD.
Movie Review: still makes me laugh 20 years later
Summary: 5 Stars
i first saw this when i was a kid on HBO in the 80's when we first got cable with that huge ugly looking brown box for a remote.as a kid both my parents and i found this,bill cosby:himself,to be one of the funniest things we had ever seen.i would watch it over and over again and throw quotes back and forth with my friends and carry on the fun.for the years to follow i never forgot certain moments and would occasionally throw quotes out to those to see if they knew where they came from.for someone to know would be a connection and hopefully the start of a friendship,as funny as that might sound.now,over 20 years later from having seen it originally,it still makes me crack up into tears.this is one of those gems that never gets old.bill cosby only resorts to one curse for the entire hour and 40 minutes and even than it is done tastefully.bill cosby always proved that you don't have to resort to mf this and mf that to still be hilarious.he is known for being one of the greats because he is arguably the greatest story-teller of a comedian ever.this show is what led him to the cosby show,the same as the original kings of comedy did for the bernie mac show.if you want something to watch for the entire family this should do the trick.i can't imagine anyone finding this not funny.if you don't find it funny than you need to take a serious look at yourself because the fact is is that this is as funny as anything.great also if you've never seen cosby perform stand-up.also i would suggest checking out some of his albums as they are just as funny.bill cosby is and always will be one of the most important and funny men of all-time.thank god for bill cosby,because we can all use a good laugh these days.Movie Review: Hilarious Stand Up
Summary: 5 Stars
I knew Bill Cosby had done stand up, but I had never seen it until I watched this recording of one of his shows from 1983. The man is absolutely hilarious.
As a warm up of sorts, he starts out by talking about people who use alcohol and drugs to have "fun" on the weekends. Then he discusses going to the dentist. Finally, he gets to the main event where family life is skewered. Everything from "natural childbirth" to trying to wrangle 5 kids to the change from parents to grandparents (watching his parents make the change that is) is fair game here.
Those looking for something visually stimulating will be disappointed. This is just Bill, a microphone, and a chair (which he sits in more often than not) for the entire time. But please don't let that stop you. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. And his observations are absolutely true, too. At times he has a point to make, but he makes it with dead accurate humor.
And this movie is mostly clean, too. There was one word early on and a bit at the end I didn't appreciate, but we're talking about a minute out of an hour and forty-five minutes of comedy. I'm not complaining. His wife comes across a bit harshly at times, but he also comes across as lazy. These bits probably wouldn't fly today, but they work when you remember one element of comedy is exaggeration.
If you haven't yet experienced this comedic gem, get it today. You'll be laughing for years to come.
Movie Review: Just can't describe how funny the Cos is!
Summary: 5 Stars
It must have been a real treat for the audience to whom Bill Cosby did this standup comedy concert; seeing him live and finding out it was being filmed with people shouting randomly here and there. This is unbelieveably funny; I think the most amount of time you don't laugh is maybe five minutes. The setup is simple just a color-changing background, and a chair on a stage in an auditorium as the man himself struts out onto the stage as we see at the beginning. He covers so many topics like drugs and alcohol, dentists, his personal stories from his childhood and with his own family like the chocolate cake for breakfast, "the same thing happens every night", grandparents, little Jeffrey on the plane trip who says "I was three but now I'm four years old." He makes absurd things about families sound funny but they are so true and you can actually relate to the whole thing. You can just picture every story as he tells it and it feels like you're actually experiencing it. The one about the chocolate cake for breakfast, where his wife supposedly screeched out loud: "Where did they get chocolate cake from?!!", the dentist, and brain-damaged children are the best. Bottom line: if you want to laugh real hard, and I mean that you almost bust your gut, you must see this film. It's Bill Cosby...himself.