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Title: At the top of his form
Review: The first time I saw Bill Cosby was on Jack Paar's program in the early 1960s, when Cosby was just out of college. He did his routine on Noah reluctantly building the ark at God's bidding. In a subsequent program he did the Revolutionary War routine, in which the two sides tactics were decided like the flip of a coin at the start of a football game. It was immediately obvious that he was headed for great things. He broke barriers as a comic, then as an actor in a primetime crime series.This disk is of a more mature comic, after he was married with children, and most of the comedy is about that. He never resorted to offensive language to get nervous laughter from an audience pretending to be so very hip. This is the vintage stuff, a seamless stream of telling us what was funny n his own life and acting it out. If you've never seen the Cos as a solo comic, this is a good place to start--or a good place to remember him if you're an old fan--like me.
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