Delano Herald Journal

Serving the communities of Delano, Loretto, Montrose, MN, and the surrounding area

Denise Rosenau Column, 10/28/02



My son, Mitch, and I have been having all sorts of fun
lately with a new (old) discovery that we’ve made ­ Bill Cosby
stand up comedy.

Every time we are in the car, whether it be to the grocery
store or out of town, you can find us listening to Bill Cosby and laughing
hysterically.

The great thing about Bill Cosby is that he is very family-friendly.
There are very few four-letter words, and the content is not smutty, which
is a big plus for a soon-to-be-entering puberty young man. (I certainly
don’t want him learning anything about the birds and the bees from any stand-up
comedian now days.)

Mitch and I initially heard about the stand up routines
from my mother-in-law, Lynette, who still to this day loves listening to
them. She has an amazing talent for reciting many of the routines, practically
word-for-word.

After I had scolded one of my kids at their house, I remember
her giggling and saying, “I can take you out and make another one just
like you.”

The hardest part is finding some of the good Bill Cosby
stand-up routines. What has been working for us is locating them on the
Internet, which has a wealth of information if you know where to look.

We do some file-sharing with a program called Morpheus,
which is wonderful for people like my family.

My dad has had great luck with it. In the past, he had
searched high and low in music store after music store to find certain classic
songs for his music collection.

He couldn’t find them in the music store, but the Internet
had exactly what he was looking for.

I wouldn’t even be able to venture a guess as to how many
songs he has now found online ­ I’m sure it’s in the hundreds. His feet
are much less tired out now that he can track down his favorite music from
the comfort of his own office rather than the malls.

Mitch and I at this point have upwards of eight Bill Cosby
CDs stashed away in the car. We have been lucky in finding what we want
online.

One word of warning, though ­ if looking for Bill Cosby
comedy on Morpheus, do not mistake Bill Cosby for Eddie Murphy doing a Bill
Cosby impression ­ my son got quite the earful the other day in the
car. Listen to the clips before burning them onto CDs.

So much for keeping it clean ­ he could have
learned more “filth, foul, foul, filth” (as Bill Cosby says) in
one Eddie Murphy comedy clip than all year in third grade.

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