Review of Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) by Ken L — 01 Nov 2010

Bill Cosby is an extremely good monologist & humorist. When he made me laugh, I was howling. When he didn't make me laugh, despite the audience reaction, I could sometimes sense (&/or project) a deeply seated strain of precisely guided outreach into the audience's imagined brain; a message of coldly sober observation that might help us all if implanted in them as intently well.

There was to me a hint of self righteous arrogance in many of his perfectly ordinary assumptions. There also seemed a hint of sadness, even longing, lurking behind the punchlines from time to time that made me wonder how much levity was really in the true story.

Bob Hope is a rank amature in comparison to his perfect sense of timing & attention captivation. I was raptly intent when not comically relieved.