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To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With by Bill Cosby (CD, Apr-1998, Warner Archives) 
To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With by Bill Cosby (CD, Apr-1998, Warner Archives)

 
To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With by Bill Cosby (CD, Apr-1998, Warner Archives)

Artist: Bill Cosby
Release Date: Apr 1998
Format: CD
Record Label: Warner Archives
Genre: Comedy, Spoken Comedy
UPC: 075992717120
Product ID: EPID3086304
Description: Recorded live at the Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio. Bill Cosby's records are still funny decades after they were made. Just as amazingly, even by 1968 his roughest obscenity was an emphatic "Jack" to punctuate the end of a...
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1. Baseball
2. Conflict
3. Losers, The
4. Apple, The
5. To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With

Details
Producer:Roy Silver
Distributor:WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:Live
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Recorded live at the Cleveland Public Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio.
Bill Cosby's records are still funny decades after they were made. Just as amazingly, even by 1968 his roughest obscenity was an emphatic "Jack" to punctuate the end of a phrase. The four shorter sketches on RUSSELL are mostly a set of riffs about being the dad of a pair of young daughters. However, it's the 26-minute title cut where Cosby really does his thing.
Cosby is so adept at changing characters, switching between the voices of his boyhood self and those of his younger brother and his father, all while maintaining a running a commentary in the present, that it's possible to completely forget that you're hearing just one guy onstage with a mike putting the whole thing down, including sound effects. The RUSSELL monologue is the story of two rambunctious kids sharing a bed in a small apartment late at night; Cosby reminds you in minute, eye-watering detail of how those little arguments over who hit who last could escalate into full-scale hostilities for which a looming Dad in the doorway was the final judge.

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      HILARIOUS! Family-Friendly Comedy. A REAL Jewel.
    Review created: 01/01/08
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    erskinesneedfulthings ( 4920)
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    6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

    Bill Cosby's album To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968) is a timeless slice of comedy. While the first four routines are subtle riffs about his youthful daughters, Cosby's 26-minute title piece has all of the elements- voice characterizations, imagery, and sound effects- that put me in my grandmother's top-floor bedroom with my own brother in the sixties.

    Cosby inimitable talent of changing characters through voice inflection and microphone manipulation- switching between himself, his brother, his father, and various sound effects- while sustaining his story, is what makes Cosby THE master-story-teller. My wife and I laughed until we cried.

    Many current top-teir comedians could take a lesson from Cosby finesse.

    In an age when comedians stack up four-letter words up like bricks in a wall, this album stands out as the PERFECT purchase for both aspiring stand-ups who want to learn how to be funny without being crass and families who are looking for a way to spend an entertaining evening together without being hypnotized by the television.


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