Review: Cosby Still Knows How To Make Audiences Roll With Laughter
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
He came out to the stage, said he wanted to pay tribute to the fallen, and left the stage. For the two minutes, all the lights were turned off and a recording of “Ave Maria” played.
When the lights came back on, Cosby didn’t waste any time in getting the 1,100 people in attendance to bust a gut.
Before the show, he had met a couple who were to wed Oct. 23 and had them on stage. He had the woman tell how her fiance proposed to her, but Cosby didn’t let her say too much at a time before interjecting his funny sarcasm and observations. He even had the man re-enact his proposal, making note of how the woman couldn’t remember anything more that her intended had said other than “Will you marry me?”
After he was done with the couple, he segued into his approximate one-hour comedic show that centered on relationships and marriage. At 74, and being married for 47 years, they were topics Cosby knows very well.
He told a story of how he was on the couch, his back toward the television – the usual way he watches it – and thought he heard a commercial about a prehistoric animal. Well, as it turns out, it was a commercial about erectile dysfunction. When he shared the story with his wife, all he got from her was The Stare.
Cosby’s stories and humor are funnier in person than what I can convey here, so if you missed out, sorry.
As a father of four daughters, Cosby said he’s seen the filth and trash of their rooms. After women are married, however, they get cleaner. And spring cleaning is a big to-do.
Cosby’s following big segment was on Genesis from the Bible. He said he wasn’t trying to recruit anyone to Christianity and has no problem with atheists or agnostics, but as far as atheists, what if there is a God?
“You shot your mouth off!” he said.
He joked it was probably better to be an agnostic as you can always say you were just kidding!
The problem Cosby had with Genesis, he again jokingly said, is with the writer, editor and publisher. The stories just jump. He bought a thick Bible once to look for missing pages.
What he loves about Genesis, he said, is that God just walked around the Garden of Eden. He created Adam in his own image. And you know if God is talking directly to someone, it’s personal.
Cosby quipped about what God and Adam’s relationship must have been like, and how God assigned Adam to name all the beasts.
God took a rib from Adam while he was sleeping and created Eve. When Eve came out, she must have been disappointed, Cosby stated, because there was all this build up of Adam and Eve found him asleep. Her frustration has passed through every woman to this day.
After that, the story jumps to Eve talking to a serpent. No mention of what Adam was doing or where he was, the story just jumps.
Cosby had a lot of humorous things to say about the Genesis story, but even though he was being a jokester, he did it with no harm intended. It was good, fun, safe, family-friendly humor.
Cosby referred occasionally back to the engaged couple he had pulled on stage for the beginning of the show.[[In-content Ad]]Cosby referred occasionally back to the engaged couple he had pulled on stage for the beginning of the show.
In a marriage ceremony, man has no power. The father of the bride is told what to do by his wife. The only power given to the groom is to pick out eight of his friends as groomsmen, because after the wedding he’ll never see them again. Except maybe as pallbearers.
Cosby suggested with a smile that maybe the mother of the groom should given the groom away in a wedding. If she does, the groom will be given away by the woman who brought him into this world to the woman who can take him out.
Later, as he joked about how much control his wife has over him, Cosby told the amused audience, “I’ve been married 47 years. I am my wife’s oldest child.”
Obviously, I can’t retell a good joke. But if you were there, you’d know how engaged Cosby kept the audience.
It was certainly one of the funniest nights I’ve had recently.
He came out to the stage, said he wanted to pay tribute to the fallen, and left the stage. For the two minutes, all the lights were turned off and a recording of “Ave Maria” played.
When the lights came back on, Cosby didn’t waste any time in getting the 1,100 people in attendance to bust a gut.
Before the show, he had met a couple who were to wed Oct. 23 and had them on stage. He had the woman tell how her fiance proposed to her, but Cosby didn’t let her say too much at a time before interjecting his funny sarcasm and observations. He even had the man re-enact his proposal, making note of how the woman couldn’t remember anything more that her intended had said other than “Will you marry me?”
After he was done with the couple, he segued into his approximate one-hour comedic show that centered on relationships and marriage. At 74, and being married for 47 years, they were topics Cosby knows very well.
He told a story of how he was on the couch, his back toward the television – the usual way he watches it – and thought he heard a commercial about a prehistoric animal. Well, as it turns out, it was a commercial about erectile dysfunction. When he shared the story with his wife, all he got from her was The Stare.
Cosby’s stories and humor are funnier in person than what I can convey here, so if you missed out, sorry.
As a father of four daughters, Cosby said he’s seen the filth and trash of their rooms. After women are married, however, they get cleaner. And spring cleaning is a big to-do.
Cosby’s following big segment was on Genesis from the Bible. He said he wasn’t trying to recruit anyone to Christianity and has no problem with atheists or agnostics, but as far as atheists, what if there is a God?
“You shot your mouth off!” he said.
He joked it was probably better to be an agnostic as you can always say you were just kidding!
The problem Cosby had with Genesis, he again jokingly said, is with the writer, editor and publisher. The stories just jump. He bought a thick Bible once to look for missing pages.
What he loves about Genesis, he said, is that God just walked around the Garden of Eden. He created Adam in his own image. And you know if God is talking directly to someone, it’s personal.
Cosby quipped about what God and Adam’s relationship must have been like, and how God assigned Adam to name all the beasts.
God took a rib from Adam while he was sleeping and created Eve. When Eve came out, she must have been disappointed, Cosby stated, because there was all this build up of Adam and Eve found him asleep. Her frustration has passed through every woman to this day.
After that, the story jumps to Eve talking to a serpent. No mention of what Adam was doing or where he was, the story just jumps.
Cosby had a lot of humorous things to say about the Genesis story, but even though he was being a jokester, he did it with no harm intended. It was good, fun, safe, family-friendly humor.
Cosby referred occasionally back to the engaged couple he had pulled on stage for the beginning of the show.[[In-content Ad]]Cosby referred occasionally back to the engaged couple he had pulled on stage for the beginning of the show.
In a marriage ceremony, man has no power. The father of the bride is told what to do by his wife. The only power given to the groom is to pick out eight of his friends as groomsmen, because after the wedding he’ll never see them again. Except maybe as pallbearers.
Cosby suggested with a smile that maybe the mother of the groom should given the groom away in a wedding. If she does, the groom will be given away by the woman who brought him into this world to the woman who can take him out.
Later, as he joked about how much control his wife has over him, Cosby told the amused audience, “I’ve been married 47 years. I am my wife’s oldest child.”
Obviously, I can’t retell a good joke. But if you were there, you’d know how engaged Cosby kept the audience.
It was certainly one of the funniest nights I’ve had recently.
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