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 | Title : Why Is There Air?
Author : Cosby, Bill
Release Date : 19980428
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $9.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Cosby sounds fired up on this live one. 'Kindergarten' kicks off the disc in fine fashion with the soon-to-be TV star's spot-on and kid-centered description of early grammar school. Cosby accurately captures the strangeness of a time when a lot of things don't quite make sense and you are constantly being told what to do. 'Personal Hygiene' and 'Shop' take us through junior high before we arrive at the comedian's tales of young adulthood on the disc's last five tracks. 'Hofstra' closes the CD with an eight-minute depiction of a very bad college football team before and during another humiliating game. Cosby manages to turn the awful team's terror and suffering into an occasion for laughs. Like other Cosby albums from the '60s, Why Is There Air? is full of the comic's highly effective sound effects.
Buyer Reviews :
This was the first Bill Cosby album I ever listened to way back when and all you have to do is say the title for me to deliver Cosby's answer (known by every P.E. student): 'We need air to blow up basketballs! To blow up volleyballs! To blow up footballs!' As funny as this album is I have to admit that it does pale somewhat in comparison to his later work when he focused more on his childhood memories and family. In that vein 'Why Is There Air?' does offer the classic comedy track 'Hofstra,' which taught us all the valuable lesson that there are certain parts of your body you cannot touch on television. Boy, is this material dated, huh? What we really need now is something sort of set that collects the best of Cosby's material, which necessarily means focusing more on his later work. The best is certainly yet to come with Cosby as you work your way through his albums chronologically.
(by Lawrance M. Bernabo)
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