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Bill Cosby: Humor
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With over thirty years in comedy, Bill Cosby is for many young comedians the man who wrote the textbook. What Cosby teaches is to approach the monologue as a screenwriter looks at real life, bringing to each story the structure and body of a complete work. The Cosby student will ... learn that one does not have to use offensive language or risque topics to obtain laughs. According to Cosby, "Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand that certain things on stage can be abused and misused. And if such topics are used just for laughter, the humor will not stand the test of time."
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The comic genius of Bill Cosby transcends age, race, and passing trends. A nine-time Grammy winner and television icon, Cosby delivers warm, personal anecdotal humor that has profoundly influenced legions of comics, from Pryor to Murphy to Seinfeld.
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Cosby began his career as a stand?up comedian and in that arena developed his trademark of using raceless humor to capture audience appeal. His "humor for everyone" cast him less as a jokester than as a story teller, commenting on the experiences of life from a personal point of view. Immensely popular on the nightclub circuit, Cosby translated his act to phonograph recordings and won five Grammys and seven gold records for his comedy albums.
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Cosby's critics are wrong to say Cosby is either "incognegro" or an appeaser. The man always had a plan. While his humor is nonconfrontational, his attitude has been anything but; like Oprah Winfrey and Magic Johnson's inner-city focused business empire, Cosby sees the acquisition of power as a civil rights strategy. He's worked to be in the meetings where decisions are made rather than outside picketing them, though he was an ardent supporter of the civil rights movement and used his shows to pay homage to it.
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To support himself during his college days, Cosby tended bar at night, where he found a ready-made audience for his brand of home-grown humor. The enthusiasm of his customers convinced him that he might have a chance as a comedian.
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WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Tim Tooten said a relaxed Cosby broke the ice with his trademark humor. But it wasn't long before his talk to a group of parents and students outside of Robert Coleman Elementary School turned serious.
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