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Bill Cosby: Comedy
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The "Washington Post" reported August 1, 1996 that Bill Cosby tried to get out of a speaking engagement scheduled before 2,000 followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The crowd was supposed to listen to Cosby's comedy act.
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On the evolution of his own style of comedy, Cosby states that he was drawn at an early age to the masters of jazz: Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Mingus and Miles Davis. Through their musical example, Cosby learned to emulate in comedy their ability to take an idea and continually find new and innovative ways of expressing the same theme.
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Bill Cosby, television's favorite avuncular funnyman and one of the longtime masters of stand-up comedy, treats his fans to this funny, satirical and heartwarming live concert from Canada. Riffing on such varied subjects as the trial by fire of marriage, parenthood and the side-splitting antics of toddlers, and even a hilarious encounter at a dentist's office, Cosby will tickle your funny bone until you hurt from laughing!
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Cosby's greatest television success came in 1984 with the debut of The Cosby Show. For Cosby the new situation comedy was a response to the increasingly violent fare the networks usually offered.
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The beatniks were "in" at that time in New York's Greenwich village, and word of Cosby's comedy spread from Philly. A club called "The Gaslight" booked him for sixty dollars a week, and he was on his way.
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