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I picked this video up recently<\/a> and was in the mood to watch something but not a full movie, so I popped it in. I’ve made no secret that I’ve been a fan of Cosby–see my book reports for his books (Love and Marriage<\/em> twice, once in <\/a> and once in <\/a>; Cosbyology<\/em> in 2010<\/a>; and Fatherhood<\/em> in 2011<\/a>). I might have one or more of his records around here, but, if I do, I don’t recall listening to them (although I do buy and listen to comedy records, I don’t spin them a bunch as they, like poetry records, require attention). And I see I also have his video Bill Cosby, Himself<\/em>, an earlier special which I also bought earlier (2024<\/a>) but have not watched yet (although the book report for Cosbyology<\/em> indicates that I watched it in 2010 somehow.<\/p>\nSo, with all that background and additional self-linkage out of the way….<\/p>\n
All of the aforementioned books and videos come from the great Cosby burst of the 1980s, when he was the king of television with The Cosby Show<\/em>. Thematically, it overlaps with some of the books. Cosby riffs on growing older, his body making different noises, and how his body responds to running these days (personified pain). He does a number on marriage and defense mechanisms therein, and how his marriage evolved over time so his wife has a bit more co-equal role in it, at least as far as winning arguments goes. <\/p>\n The video is just over an hour long, and I guess I’d rather read Cosby than watch him in any long form. I’m kind of that way with videos, too, and I really don’t like podcasts for information intake. But books on tape are all right if I’m driving<\/em>; I don’t want to listen to them in my spare time at home.<\/p>\n At any rate, it’s all right. And a videocassette with the Kodak logo on it? You cannot be any more 1987 than that. <\/p>\n But you don’t need to find a copy of your own as it’s presently on YouTube in its entirety. For now.<\/p>\n