Chocolate Cake for Breakfast

My world has become a movie. Specifically "Bill Cosby:Himself", which I and many people I know consider one of the funniest live performances ever.

 

This movie was released in 1983 and contains live footage of Bill Cosby doing stand-up comedy. For while it was running on HBO constantly in the middle 80's. I eventually bought the soundtrack and when it was released on DVD in 2004 I was right there at Best Buy to add it to my collection.

 

Over the years I have clearly overdosed on this movie. One of the keys to Bill Cosby's stand-up performance was his storytelling style. I can't tell a short version of anything, and have a story for any subject. (In fact isn't this blog just a bunch of stories?).

 

Me: "Hey Dad, I have something to tell you"

 

My Dad: "Will this be a SHORT story?"

 

Today we call that "creativity", when I was younger we called that "a motor mouth."

 

Regardless, for those of you who know the movie, here are topics discussed in the movie and my my true life experiences linked to the subject.

 

-Parents who censor themselves? My youngest child runs around the house saying "Oh Fudge-er", which as you can guess does not please my wife.

-The kids turning on you when the other parent arrives in the room and disapproves? I have been blamed by my kids for everything, including why they vomit, urinate, cry, go to school, have days off, spill stuff, what they watch on TV, etc.

-On Grandparents not being the person I grew up with, but trying to get into heaven - I won't even describe my in-laws, but oddly not my parents. That's a whole other post.

-Little Jeffery on the plane? I have been on both sides of this hearing a parent sound like a broken record and sounding like a broken record my self!

-Mothers getting so made they can't remember a child's name? I have apologized in advance to my kids for the fact that I call then by the wrong name. I was okay until we had a third, then my brain went out on the names, the worst is when you go through all the kids names and your spouses name until you get it right!
-Ask your father for a dollar for the school picnic, get a lecture about killing a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook. Here is how I answer most questions from the kids - "Back when I was your age..," the rest of the time my answer is "Go ask your mother"

 

These are just on the subjects of dealing with the kids! I won't even touch the sections on dentists, childbirth, drinking, poo-poo, being intellectuals before having children, and people having a conniption.

 

Go buy the DVD, the best $10 bucks you'll spend this year. If you already have it, go watch it.

 

"Come here and pull my finger!"