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"The Best of Bill Cosby" (03/01/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Rhino Records (USA)Anyone who has the first six Cosby standup records will have all of this material already covered, but The Best of Bill Cosby is nonetheless a pretty good introduction. The choice of material reinforces the fact that in the early days Cosby was inventive and wasn't content to roll around in the clich?s of husband versus wife, instead telling wonderful stories from his childhood and making observations about the absurd aspects of everyday life. Even after he started talking more about his family life on the later records, that storytelling aspect was key, always preferring to let the story flow rather than pulling out a string of cheap one-liners, and here he's at his peak. ~ Sean Carruthers The three Noah sketches included here were the highlight of Cosby's first album, RIGHT!, and the closing "Fat Albert (Buck, Buck)" is a good example of Cosby's talent for stretching out and elaborating on stories based on his childhood in Philadelphia--in very funny fashion. With their spot-on recollections of what it's like to get a slush-ball down the back or to go to a monster movie (but to be too scared to watch), "Revenge" and "Old Weird Harold (9th Street Bridge)" also fit into the cycle of Cosby's tales of growing-up. Cosby's gift lies in his ability to make you howl with laughter now at the things that could make life pure misery as a kid. It's amazing how often he succeeds in zeroing-in on events you thought only you had to endure. BEST OF gives a fair idea of the comedian's '60s work, but a few of his Warner Brothers album are completely overlooked. If this collection rings your chimes, check out WONDERFULNESS, which is loaded with such killer pieces as "Tonsils," "Go Carts," and "Chicken Heart," and TO RUSSELL, MY BROTHER, WHOM I SLEPT WITH, a record worth it for the title cut alone.

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"20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bill Cosby" (05/22/2001) Comedy Cosby, Bill, MCA Records (USA)Personnel includes: Bill Cosby (spoken vocals). Recorded between 1970 & 1972. Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway. All tracks have been digitally remasterd. This is part of MCA's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection series. Liner Note Author: A. Scott Galloway. Recording information: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY. Since most of MCA's 20th Century Masters: Millennium Edition has been devoted to musicians, it's a little strange to see it applied to a comedian, yet the same principle works very well on Bill Cosby's collection. This covers his early-'70s records for MCA, a time when he was deep into Fat Albert -- who indeed appears here with "Fat Albert's Car." Truth be told, this material isn't as classic as what appeared on the early-'60s albums on Warner, but it's pretty damn great all the same, and while it doesn't have the flow of a real comedy record (and is admittedly missing some great bits), it does have most of the major cuts he made during this time, and is a successful sampler. If you just want a taste of Cosby's early-'70s recordings, this is a good choice. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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"Bill Cosby Collection" (04/19/2002) Comedy Cosby, Bill, EMI Music DistributionLegendary comedian Bill Cosby shares his addictive brand of humor on this extensive double album, which features his work from the 1970s.

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"Fat Albert" (11/02/2004) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Geffen Records (USA)Personnel: Bill Cosby. Liner Note Author: Scott Schinder. The early '70s saw comedian Bill Cosby branch out into the educational aspects of television. In 1969, he first starred as an original cast member of the Children's Television Workshop PBS series Electric Company -- which also boasted the innumerable talents of Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman. Then Cosby developed his own Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids animated series, airing Saturday mornings on CBS affiliates from September of 1972 to August of 1984. The show was based upon the adventures of the Fat Albert character first introduced on Cosby's '60s standup albums -- most notably his 1967 release, Revenge. With the overwhelming response and acceptance garnered -- from both young and old fans -- Cosby returned to the standup nightclub stage of Harrah's in Reno, NV, to document more fables and tales. While a majority of Fat Albert centers around the exploits of Albert and the gang, the disc also includes two pieces, "My Wife and Kids" and "Fernet Branaca," dedicated to his adult life as father and husband. There is an inherent beauty in the obvious affection that Cosby relates in these yarns. Without a doubt this is why children of all ages and ethnic backgrounds are so enamored with not only the characters, but also the hilarious situations they constantly find themselves in. Several of these stories have since become cornerstones in Cosby's repertoire of observational humor. Among these are "Fat Albert's Car," "Fat Albert Plays Dead," and "My Brother Russell." These reach back and bookend the decade of stories begun on I Started out As a Child (1964) and ending on this volume. Despite the obvious endearment of these recordings, Cosby would not revisit Fat Albert as subject matter of his future comedy albums, choosing to seek a more mature audience with monologues dealing with parenthood and married life. ~ Lindsay Planer In the early 1970s, after Bill Cosby had emerged as one of the funniest, most original comedians around, he masterminded the FAT ALBERT animated series, populated with characters from Cosby's Philadelphia youth. In fact, these characters had already appeared for some time in Cosby's live monologues. It was a natural step, then, for Cosby to release the FAT ALBERT album in 1973; ostensibly a spin-off of the series, the comedy recording was actually just an audio document of routines he'd been performing for years. Captured live in Reno, NV, Cosby weaves his long, colorful narratives with both warmth and masterful comic precision. He pokes good-natured fun, not only at the lovably quirky Fat Albert, but also at members of his own family (including his brother Russell, the subject of many a Cosby story). The gritty urban setting of Cosby's scenarios contrasts nicely with the compassion the comedian obviously feels for his characters, even as he takes great delight in revealing their foibles.

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"Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby" (08/02/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Geffen Records (USA)By the time 1972 rolled around, Bill Cosby was big news; with an ultra-popular standup career, a few TV shows under his belt, and a couple more on the go, it seemed he could go nowhere but up. This release features Cosby in front of yet another appreciative crowd doing short standup bits, but unlike the earlier and more inventive bits, this shows Cosby in a bit of a rut. There are husbands versus wives parts 12 and 13, kids versus parents parts five through eight, and Cosby versus strange food and various bits of anatomy. Even if he spends much of the album re-exploring familiar themes, it's still quite funny. ~ Sean Carruthers

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"Why Is There Air?" (04/14/1998) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Warner ArchivesLiner Note Author: Stan Cornyn. Recording information: Flamingo Hotel; Las Vegas, NV (1964-1965); The Falmingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (1964-1965); The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (1964-1965). Photographer: Ed Thrasher. Unknown Contributor Roles: Allan Sherman; Roy Silver. As the comedian's star continued to ascend, Bill Cosby's third long-player, 1965's Why Is There Air?, became his first to crack the Top 20. Family-friendly humor -- along with increased exposure on the mid-'60s TV talk and variety show circuit -- gave Cosby an edge that many of his contemporaries weren't privy to. Captured live at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, this 40-minute outing is packed with more classic ripping yarns that draw upon Cosby as a child and young adult. The stories become all the more riveting and relatable in great part due to his off-the-cuff and conversational delivery, which ultimately draws the listener in. For practically anyone growing up stateside in the '50s, '60s, or early '70s, Cosby's reminiscences of "Kindergarten" will assuredly conjure memories of being fed a "snack" of an "old, dried-up, brown, nasty-tastin', gag-ya, stick-in-the-throat graham cracker" with milk "that has been sitting on the radiator for about 80 years" to wash it down. Indeed, as Cosby concludes, "there's nothin' in the world better for a bunch of five-year-old kids than good ol' lukewarm, curdling milk." The artist also defines "idiot mittens" and provides insights regarding children who suffer from their first bouts of separation anxiety. "Personal Hygiene" and "Shop" give his audience a peek into Cosby's junior high school antics, including the comedian's experiences of the eternal vagaries, not to mention the awkward nature, of gym class and the relatable despondency of "...anything I every tried to make always turned out to be an ashtray." Cosby addresses his current state of affairs on "Baby" -- which finds our hero discussing the joys and paranoia of expectant fatherhood -- and one of his all-time classic routines, describing his observations when "Driving in San Francisco." Continuing with tales of his pre-showbiz days , both "$75 Car" and "Hofstra" deal with college life. The former includes the great philosophical debate of "Why is there air?" -- the answer of course being, to inflate volleyballs and basketballs. ~ Lindsay Planer 1965's WHY IS THERE AIR? is part of the classic string of comedy albums which helped make Bill Cosby's name in the mid-'60s. Cosby first came to national prominence as the co-star of the TV series I SPY. However, he was first and foremost a sharp, clever nightclub comedian, spinning stories based on his Philadelphia childhood and adolescence into comedy considerably more clever and occasionally more acerbic than people who know him from his '80s and '90s TV work might expect. The highlights of this album include the schooldays remembrances of "Kindergarten," "Personal Hygiene," and "Shop," but the final track, the eight-minute "Hofstra," is a Cosby classic. Painting vivid word pictures of a college football team's humiliating defeat, Cosby delivers one of his all-time classics, up there with "Noah" and "200 M.P.H."

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"Bill Cosby Collection" (01/12/2001) Comedy Cosby, Bill, EMI Music DistributionTHE BILL COSBY COLLECTION features 24 hilarious comedy tracks.

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"Wonderfulness" (04/14/1998) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Warner ArchivesBill Cosby cracked the Top Ten album chart with 1966's Wonderfulness, his fourth long-player in less than two years. This was indeed a sizable feat for a comedian during the height of the mid-'60s British Invasion, but not surprising in the case of Cosby. His exposure on the talk and variety television circuit of the mid-'60s had increased thanks to his co-starring role in the NBC-TV network program I Spy. Once again, he is caught in the act of being one of his era's funniest standups, and one who never resorted to debasing his craft by filling his repertoire with cheap sex, drugs, or race-related jokes to garner a laugh. Instead, he remains faithful to his proven successful equation of easily relatable narratives -- in front of a typical nightclub audience at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe. The 15-minute-long epic "Tonsils" is among the artist's most beloved raps, and takes the listener through a wide-eyed child's perspective of the entire procedure from sore throat to the battle-like "us or them" mind games that Cosby and his fellow kiddie comrades play on each other. Particularly memorable is the ice cream chant that Cosby leads his hospital cohabitants in and how by the end of the ordeal their priorities had radically changed. Equally as charming in its innocence is "The Playground" -- where he discusses the theory that the "grown-ups" of his time were trying to "bump us off" by clearing perfectly good fields and vacant lots in order to build potentially dangerous "monkey bars." To wit, he muses, "We lost 124 kids in one day." To the same whimsical effect, "Go Carts" recounts with genuine fondness a youthful ingenuity that inspired him and his pals to "borrow" all of the neighborhood baby coach wheels for use in the "Go Cart Championship of America" and the 900 cop cars that await the "winner" of the race. "Chicken Heart" is another of Cosby's more involved works, featuring some unforgettable incidents when -- against his parents' orders -- he tunes in an episode of Lights Out. The concluding "Niagara Falls" marks an interesting diversion, as the artist actually spoofs a man whom he warmly refers to as "his boss" -- old-school showbiz legend Sheldon Leonard, who was also the producer of the aforementioned I Spy. The story of Leonard's swimming in frigid Lake Niagara on his honeymoon predates the Seinfeld concept of "shrinkage"; however, the premise remains the same. ~ Lindsay Planer Anyone whose first experience with Bill Cosby was through the cartoon FAT ALBERT may be surprised to discover that some of those characters and stories date back to the comedian's earliest stand-up work. (Anyone whose first experience with Cosby only dates back to his 1980s role as Cliff Huxtable has been missing out altogether.) "Chicken Heart," a remembrance of listening to scary radio dramas (the story later became an entire "Cosby Kids" episode), is one of those classic Cosby combinations of narrative, character voices, and microphone sound effects that picks up hysterical velocity at the story's climax. WONDERFULNESS has a number of other standout pieces. "Tonsils" tells the story of a hospital visit in which Cosby and his two fellow patients are promised "all the ice cream in the world you can eat." "Go Carts" recounts a race down Dead Man's Hill ("It was called Dead Man's Hill because it went straight down, for about a quarter of a mile, and then it emptied out onto a freeway"). "The Special Class" and "Niagara Falls," about a couple of adults, are just as funny.

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"Bill Cosby "Himself"" (10/25/1990) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Motown RecordsBill Cosby "Himself," the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, features such classic Cosby routines as "The Dentist," "Natural Childbirth," and "Same Thing Happens Every Night." Without the visual distraction of Cosby's mugging -- which is either charming or clich?d, depending on your point of view -- his total mastery of his art comes into sharper focus. "Himself" chronicles a professional comedian at the top of his game, toying with structure, timing, and tone, holding his audience with absolute confidence. Times have changed, though; it might be hard to get away with the many references to corporal punishment in the 21st century, and mentions of Cosby's son Ennis can't help but bring to mind his tragic death, bringing a bittersweet quality to some moments on "Himself." ~ Bill Cassel The soundtrack CD to a 1982 concert film, HIMSELF was something of a comeback for Bill Cosby. For one thing, it was a late-night cable viewing of this movie that gave NBC's Brandon Tartikoff the idea for THE COSBY SHOW. More importantly, with HIMSELF Bill Cosby redefines his entire comedic persona. In the '60s, Cosby's stand-up comedy, as later reflected in his '70s Saturday morning TV show FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS, was rooted almost entirely in stories about his childhood in Philadelphia. The comedy on HIMSELF is almost entirely about Cosby's experiences as a father, and the new focus gives the comedian a wealth of new areas to explore, from childbirth to parenthood. While it's odd to hear Cosby talk about drug use in one routine--and, just as incongruously, use obscenities in it--HIMSELF is remarkably funny stuff.

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"At His Best" (03/14/2006) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Collectables RecordsPersonnel: Bill Cosby (spoken vocals). There are moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny This is by no means an essential collection of Bill Cosby's finest moments, instead assembling selected Cosby standup routines from the '80s and '90s from various records originally released on Universal. The main problem with compiling extracts from multiple Cosby standup records lies in the fact that his delivery and sequencing of material are quite smooth in any of this individual releases, so the transition from track to track on this compilation disc can be comparatively jarring at some points, especially with the William Shatner-esque "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten." While this disc certainly has its moments, those looking for a more definitive look at Cosby's comedic genius would be well served in checking out 1969's classic The Best of Bill Cosby. ~ Rob Theakston Bill Cosby's best albums were all so carefully assembled that to pull even his strongest routines out of context wreaks havoc with the material's ebb and flow -- there are certainly moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny A compilation of Bill Cosby's Uni label albums from 1969-72, AT HIS BEST sheds new light on an under-appreciated period of Cosby's career. Though less well-known than his classic '60s Warner Brothers albums, these records nonetheless had some magnificent moments, including the hilarious childhood tales "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "My Brother Russell." Elsewhere, Cosby starts to explore the more grown-up material he would use to such great effect in the '80s, but pieces like "Be Good to Your Wives in Las Vegas" and "Why Beat Your Wife?" go a little further out than Cosby ever would in his sanitized TV show. It's unfortunately difficult to listen to the fatherhood tale "Ennis' Toilet" these days without thinking of Ennis Cosby's late-'90s murder, but the rest of AT HIS BEST is prime Cosby, complete with a rare music track, "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten."

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"When I Was a Kid" (05/03/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, DGC (David Geffen Company) (USA)Personnel: Bill Cosby (spoken vocals); Judy Collins (vocals). After signing with Uni Records in 1970 and issuing several albums' worth of material dealing in primarily adult themes, Bill Cosby triumphantly returns to weaving yarns about his youth and childhood acquaintances: Fat Albert, Dumb Donald, and of course, his brother Russell. This would also become the basis for his Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids animated series that became mandatory viewing for millions on Saturday mornings between 1972 and 1985. The continuity of story lines featuring his family which commenced with I Started out As a Child (1964) are virtually seamless with those told on this disc. This is evident in "My Father" and "My Brother Russell," highlighting the silly nature of kids and the often too-serious nature of adults. If anything, the intervening years seem to have given Cosby a degree of empathy conspicuously absent from his earlier monologues. Undoubtedly, this can be traced to the birth of Cosby's own children and the correlation between being a kid and having one. With his off-the-cuff delivery style, Cosby retains a freshness when verbally retracing incidence such as "My Hernia." "Buck Jones" hearkens back to the familiar "9th Street Bridge" saga from Revenge (1967), recalling "the gang" at the movies. The shorter observational pieces on "Snakes and Alligators" as well as "Dogs" and "Frogs" are less about children and sound like extensions of tracks such as "Dogs and Cats" from 200 M.P.H. (1968). The success of reviving this timeless cast of characters spawned the LP Fat Albert (1973). Sadly, though, Cosby very rarely incorporated these timeless and ageless characters into his latter-era standup. ~ Lindsay Planer

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"Cosby and the Kids" (03/01/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Rhino Records (USA)Personnel: Bill Cosby (vocals); Bill Cosby (spoken vocals). Photographer: Howard Bingham. As far as Cosby compilations go, the thing Cosby and the Kids does very right is present the tracks unedited, important since the comedian's languid reflections on his childhood are best left untouched. Yep, this is Cosby talking about his childhood for an adult audience, not Cosby talking to children, as the crayon-scrawled cover might suggest. First released when his television show was on top, Cosby and the Kids was originally coupled with the not reissued Cosby Classics in a two-cassette set. Cosby Classics' track listing is too close to his Best Of collection to warrant a reissue, but the fact that Cosby and the Kids is the lone compilation of his ten-minutes-and-over cuts makes it worthy, besides hilarious. Too bad Rhino put no effort into their 2005 reissue. There are no liner notes and there's still that "Cosby sweater" the man is wearing on the cover, still disguising these '60s recordings as '80s recordings. Shabby packaging till the day it dies, but with five prime routines no matter how you dress them. Do yourself a favor and grab the original albums, where the sequencing is much smoother. If your wallet doesn't allow it, Best Of and Cosby and the Kids give you a good representation of the man's early work. ~ David Jeffries

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"It's True! It's True!" (03/01/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Rhino Records (USA)Personnel: Bill Cosby (spoken vocals). Recording information: Harrah's Lake Tahoe, NV; Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, NV. Editor: Rudy Hill. Bill Cosby concluded his five-year (1964-1969) run with Warner Brothers -- which yielded no less than eight Top 40 spoken word comedy long-players -- with It's True! It's True! (1969). If the written copy on the rear LP jacket is to be taken at face value, the material on this roughly half-hour platter consists of spontaneous and extemporaneous items that Cosby "winged" during a run at Harrah's Casino in Lake Tahoe, NV. Concurrent with his scheduled performances -- in early 1968 -- the Reno Musicians' Union went on strike. While the artist would make the occasional references to his childhood memories, Cosby's repertoire had expanded considerably. Decidedly mature themes began emerging as early as Revenge (1967) -- particularly with "Wives" -- and the motif continued as To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968) on the shorter pieces "Conflict" and "The Apple." In fact, the opening selection is more or less a continuation of the latter title as "It's All the Women's Fault" delves into similar territory as he playfully chides the fairer sex about their responsibility and roles in the process -- dating all the way back to Eve. Of the numerous shorter monologues, Cosby's observations on "Helicopters" is among the best of the bunch as he proffers an alternative for those who might suffer from the fear of being able to see "where you're going to crash." The solution is to have helicopters that "go about eight feet in the air. No higher than that." "Ants Are Cool" is one of the disc's rare bits to be infused with some classic Cosby kiddy nostalgia. He comments that even when "you cover up their hole, they [will] start moving the stones again and they don't even curse at 'cha." In "Burlesque Shows" he talks about his earliest experiences in show biz, while "The American Gambler" is a poke at the extroverted morays of people as they basically pull a type of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The irony and Murphy's Law-nature of "Shoelaces" is very briefly -- at under a minute -- touched upon before Cosby launches into the innocent, yet definitely adult-oriented "Spanish Fly" that ties in a universal experience and an aside that includes Cosby's co-star Robert Culp in the acclaimed I Spy television series. "Mr. Ike & The Neighborhood TV Set" is perhaps work that is most akin to his earliest endearing character sketches of those whom he had known as an adolescent. The kicker includes a humorous retelling of Cosby's early encounter with chewing tobacco. "Foreign Countries" is the lengthy Globe-trotting diatribe and concludes the album with recollections of filming abroad with Culp in such exotic locations as Greece and London and a show-stopping routine about the bath houses in Japan. Although It's True! It's True! would be his last for Warner Brothers -- not counting compilations -- for nearly two decades, Cosby resurfaced on his own co-owned Tetragrammaton Records imprint -- a subsidiary of ruce Post Campbell, Roy Silver, and Cosby's CSC Corps. Incidentally, the disc was mastered in so-called HAECO-CSG monaural processing -- which many Warner Brothers and Reprise Records of 1968 and 1969 were encoded with. The result on modern playback equipment is the loss of low frequencies and a poorly defined audio image. ~ Lindsay Planer

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"Bill Cosby at His Best" (01/01/1995) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Universal Special ProductsPersonnel: Bill Cosby (vocals). There are moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny This is by no means an essential collection of Bill Cosby's finest moments, instead assembling selected Cosby standup routines from the '80s and '90s from various records originally released on Universal. The main problem with compiling extracts from multiple Cosby standup records lies in the fact that his delivery and sequencing of material are quite smooth in any of this individual releases, so the transition from track to track on this compilation disc can be comparatively jarring at some points, especially with the William Shatner-esque "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten." While this disc certainly has its moments, those looking for a more definitive look at Cosby's comedic genius would be well served in checking out 1969's classic The Best of Bill Cosby. ~ Rob Theakston Bill Cosby's best albums were all so carefully assembled that to pull even his strongest routines out of context wreaks havoc with the material's ebb and flow -- there are certainly moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny A compilation of Bill Cosby's Uni label albums from 1969-72, AT HIS BEST sheds new light on an under-appreciated period of Cosby's career. Though less well-known than his classic '60s Warner Brothers albums, these records nonetheless had some magnificent moments, including the hilarious childhood tales "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "My Brother Russell." Elsewhere, Cosby starts to explore the more grown-up material he would use to such great effect in the '80s, but pieces like "Be Good to Your Wives in Las Vegas" and "Why Beat Your Wife?" go a little further out than Cosby ever would in his sanitized TV show. It's unfortunately difficult to listen to the fatherhood tale "Ennis' Toilet" these days without thinking of Ennis Cosby's late-'90s murder, but the rest of AT HIS BEST is prime Cosby, complete with a rare music track, "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten." There are moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny Bill Cosby's best albums were all so carefully assembled that to pull even his strongest routines out of context wreaks havoc with the material's ebb and flow -- there are certainly moments of brilliance scattered throughout the budget-priced Bill Cosby at His Best, but fans wishing to purchase routines like "My Brother, Russell," "Fat Albert Got a Hernia," and "Bill's Marriage" would be better off obtaining the original records. ~ Jason Ankeny

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