VHS Videos: Bill Cosby, Himself Video

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Rating: - Bill Cosby Runs The Gamut On His Family
Bill Cosby delivers perhaps his funniest standup routine ever in this 1981 concert film.

After a surprisingly tacky take on drugs - saved by his sensational satire of an addict who goes to a fastfood restaurant - Bill does dead-on takes on getting drunk and going to see the dentist. He then launches into the film's running gag - family life. From a natural childbirth sketch that outdoes every such episode of any comedy series, Bill goes to the art of actually rasing children, and details the innocently vicious antics involved - such as scolding the son when he shaves his hair, dealing with a bratty four-year-old on a transcontinental flight, and how every night the wife turns into Xena The Warrior Princess when the kids turn bathtime into war.

But perhaps the funniest part comes when Bill reveals the "real" names of himself and his brother Russell (best known from the Fat Albert cartoon show based on Cosby's sketches) when they were kids. There is also the surprising concern of mothers when their sons are in automobile accidents.

Chances are you'll be unable to stop laughing at this stellar concert tape.

Cosby's dentist routine is one of the most fall-out-of-your-seat hilarious routines of all time, and even the most jaded of people will surely find humor in this.

Overall, it's impossible not to recommend this film to anyone who wants a riotous laugh, and I look forward to the day that they port this over to DVD so that it will become truly collectible.