Magnum - Cosby Connection?

[Little Garwood]

Say what you will about "Coogi sweater-wearing Cosby", but his 1960s stand up holds up quite well. When I was 12 or so, I had the cassette of Cosby's I Started Out as a Child comedy album. Listening to it again recently (as in "right now") and imo it's still funny and fresh.

"Dad! Breathe so we can breathe!"

[ConchRepublican]

Say what you will about "Coogi sweater-wearing Cosby", but his 1960s stand up holds up quite well. When I was 12 or so, I had the cassette of Cosby's I Started Out as a Child comedy album. Listening to it again recently (as in "right now") and imo it's still funny and fresh.

"Dad! Breathe so we can breathe!"

There's another one out there!! I Started out as a Child, Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow .... Right!, Why is There Air?, Wonderfulness . . . all great records. I grew up with them, still love them and even have them on my iPod!

[308GUY]

"Dad is great....gives us chocolate cake!"

"Was your head WITH you all day?"

"Come around idiot...come around!"

"Buck buck number 1!"

He was the MAN! back then. Listened to just about everything he's recorded, and I agree, it's ALL still funny!

Didn't watch the Cosby show, but I'm sure it had it's "moments" ....if they'd have just acted out some of his S/U routines, that'd probably had me watching.

Ramdom thoughts.......

[Stelth]

I honestly can't remember ever sitting down and watching a single episode of "Cosby".

[ConchRepublican]

I honestly can't remember ever sitting down and watching a single episode of "Cosby".

I don't either, it never did much for me although I loved Bill Cosby. And I mean this Bill Cosby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix8xOD0kiWw&feature=kp

[Stelth]

Don't get me wrong: I think Cosby is very funny as a stand-up. His sitcom looked like it was aimed at the audience that would appreciate "Full House". Way too "cutesy" for my taste.

[Little Garwood]

I'm not sure if anything could have stopped the Cosby Show juggernaut but Magnum certainly didn't help its own cause with season five happening to be Cosby's competition at the time. Still, as much as a Cosby fan as I have always been, the changing of the guard with MPI and Simon & Simon falling down in the ratings and the rise of the sitcom was truly--despite this melodramatic assertion--the death of my childhood. Everything in pop culture seemed to change from a Lucas-Spielberg-dominated action-adventure pop culture, to the likes of The Cosby Show/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Muppet Babies-type kids' fare. Perhaps it had to do with my age at the time--I was thirteen when The Cosby Show debuted--but I can point to that sitcom's debut and the subsequent ratings shift to when things on TV moved from adventure to more "kid friendly" fare.