I have a memory floating around in my head of listening to a radio comedy show sometime in the mid-eighties, and they played a clip of Bill Cosby talking about Jock Itch. He was saying that Jock Itch was better than a woman, because the relief you got from scratching it was greater than anything you could get from a woman. (that’s a big paraphrase, it was a long time ago).
When I think of it now, I’m kinda shocked that Bill Cosby did that routine. It sounds almost risqué, and he’s usually very clean.
So, am I imagining things? Was it someone other than Cosby? I’ve checked through the wiki listing of his albums, and there’s no routine called “Jock Itch” or anything similar. A google search reveals one reference to the routine on an Urban Dictionary page, but no cite or reference to what album the routine came from.
That was Cosby, I remember that from one of his early comedy LPs. I’m sure someone will be along soon to specify which one.
I also recall him describing how, when his college football game was televised, he was instructed that players must not grab their crotches. Which became a severe test for him when he was hit in the crotch. He ended up grabbing his head, instead. They ended up bandaging his head as a result.
Cosby worked blue early in his career. I don’t know how much of that stuff got recorded, however. Later he found his niche by getting away from racial and sexual comedy and being more family-oriented, but he never completely left those aspects behind.
Yeah, I remember this. My dad had a bunch of old Cosby records that I listened to, and this was on one. I remember him talking about how when he was in the military he stopped himself from scratching while in the trenches cuz of how good it felt when he did it.
I listened to all of Cosby’s stuff when he first came out. None of the things that gor recorded got any “bluer” than the OP – which i wouldn’t call blue, myself. Do you know of anything more risque that you heard yourself, or do you have any cite for this? Because, unlike, say, Redd Foxx or Nipsey Russell (both of whom recorded plenty of blue stuff), I can’t picture Cosby doing this.
Gee, Gato, its 7 in the morning and you can’t sleep. Why not try Google, since you have nothing better to do than try to find a copy of Woody Plant Seed Guide.
Dumb Donald is the one with the hat over his face. See how easy that was? I also found out that Bob Wilkins had died earlier this year and was living in Reno, of all places!
The 12:15 show seems to be about as “blue” as Cosby got, and that’s pretty mild: no profanity, just stuff like a brief boast about his sexual prowess in getting his wife pregnant “right through the ol’ midnight trampoline” and a story about encountering transvestites in the men’s room at a San Francisco nightclub.
I can’t disagree that Cosby worked blue early in his career (possibly not recorded), but I do remember being shocked when he used the word “asshole” in the Himself film. It was the bluest I’d ever heard him go, and it was truly unexpected.
Say what you will about him, he really is a master of comedic writing. If you’re looking for some Cosby you probably haven’t heard, dig up his 200 M.P.H. album, recently released on CD. It’s obscure gold.
I think the jock itch story and the one about being instructed not to touch yourself on the field when his college game was being televised are from the same routine. It is entitled “Hofstra”. It has been years since I listened to this so I could be wrong.
Himself was the first VHS tape I ever bought. At one time, I owned most of his records but I think I laughed the hardest at Himself. It was and is pure comedy gold.
You’ll have to excuse me now but I’m off to listen to To Russell, my brother, whom I slept with. If you ever had to share a bed with a sibling, you have to hear it.