Product Description

Thirty years young, Bill Cosby's debut album makes its first appearance on compact disc. It contains the routine that put him on the map, his three-part telling of the story of Noah.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: COSBY,BILL
Title: IS A VERY FUNNY FELLOW RIGHT?
Street Release Date: 01/24/1995
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY

Track Listing

1. Nut in Every Car
2. Toss of the Coin
3. Little Tiny Hairs
4. Noah: Right!
5. Noah: And the Neighbor
6. Noah: Me and You, Lord
7. Superman
8. Hoof and Mouth
9. Greasy Kid Stuff
10. Difference Between Men and Women
11. Pep Talk
12. Karate

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #409 in Music
• Brand: COSBY,BILL
• Released on: 1995-01-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Cosby's first is still brilliant.
Most comedians' first records sound dated or subdued. Not Bill Cosby, who took America by storm in the mid-Sixties as the more approacheable answer to Redd Foxx (and funnier, too). This is his first disc, and it's still brilliant: it hasn't dated in any real way, which is rare for comedy, and it has moments that are so explosively funny you can't even figure out why.

I mean, why should hair tonic or hoof-and-mouth disease be funny? Because Cosby knows how to look at it and find humor in it, and make it all make sense, that's why. Nichols and May were working in some of the same vein (and Cosby even credits them with a good deal of influence), but Cosby is more spontaneous, more flexible, and more interesting to listeners of all persuasions.

"...Funny Fellow" has some of Cosby's most timeless and penetrating material, especially the three-part "Noah" skit, which says at least as much about rebellion against God and social roles as it does anything else. The punchlines ("HOW LONG CAN YOU TREAD WATER?") have entered into the cultural consciousness.

"The Difference Between Men and Women" is also telling, because it allows him to make fun of sex roles without sliding into the marriage-is-one-great-big-pain p.o.v. that dominated and dragged down so much of his later material. "Karate" is a great showcase for his powers of mimicry and frantic delivery; "A Nut in Every Car" is still a valid piece of New York humor; and even a one-off like "Superman" is worth hearing.

Cosby excelled at delivering ordinary life in extraordinary ways (and not only that, but he did it in a G-rated way, which is saying something to this day). Anyone seriously interested in comedy or Cosby should or probably already has this record.

Bill Cosby *IS* a Very Funny Fellow -- RIGHT!
I used to have ALL of Bill Cosby's recordings on LP when I was a kid, including this one. My brothers and I listened to them over and over again, and we would laugh ourselves silly each time. Our mother could never understand how we could listen to the same routines over and over and over again and still find them funny, but we DID! We listened to them so many times, we had them all memorized, and we never got tired of them.

I don't know what happened to my old albums - I think my Dad got rid of them - but I sure am glad to see this recording here! I listened to some of the snippets and laughed myself senseless all over again. Bill Cosby's humor never gets old.

What's a cubit?
This was Bill Cosby's very first album. It sold over a million copies, and the rest is history. Most of this material holds up well today, but the bits about athletes doing razor blade and hair tonic commercials are a bit dated. The absolute classic routines are the ones about Noah. This is a very funny album. Recommended to fans of classic comedy. Right!