Bill Cosby - Old Weird Harold (9th Street Bridge)

[@TYoungPhDRRT]

I used to listen to these (on vinyl!!) for hours when i was a kid! Too bad Cos' reputation was tarnished by all the issues from his past. He's still one of my favorites of all time! So many hours of laughter and joy his work provided me!

[@waukivorycopse2402]

" Hey...Harold... there's nuthin' here but grownups!" There is the brilliance of Cosby's storytelling, no adult would ever say that. It takes you straight back to being a kid, I've forgotten most things like that. Brilliant.

[@blueeyedbehr]

"ten o'clock, that's when the monsters come out." i'm 61, and remember laughing at that when i was only ten!! what a comedic genius!

[@seanmulloy854]

"...and I don't even care what the guy's name was". I still reuse that line all the time. His early stuff was so great.

[@danseelinger3831]

I always wondered why Cosby would even know a wino's name in the 1st place.

[@BDUBZ49]

​@@danseelinger3831 Sometimes neighborhood figures just get assigned names by the locals. We had a guy in our neighborhood we called "Hippie Jim". No idea what his real name was.

[@endtimeawakening5557]

Thanks for this! I remember these as a kid in the 70's. Great memories!!! God bless! ❤

[@richclemons8558]

I have this album and grew up with it I am 51 and still find it histericall

[@seanp87sc]

I’m 34 and grew up with it. It’s still great

[@parkjamesshaw3189]

Coz is free at last!!! This man is absolutely brilliant. I'm 47 and grew up listening to him. So damn funny and kept it clean. God bless u cliff h.

[@amandahohne3359]

I'm 32 and also grew up with this collection

[@JeffDrakeX]

Age 46, same. 😄

[@Sagayzia]

My parents bought this album when I was in grade school. We were eating popcorn and drinking Pepsi, sitting on the livingroom floor listening to it. I took a big gulp of Pepsi just as the wino came out of the alley. I laughed so hard and so long that Pepsi spurted out of my mouth and nose and I about choked to death! Loved growing up with Bill Cosby!

[@MerganzerBoone]

I listened to this LP as a kid. One of the best comedians as far as I'm concerned "you gunky"

[@terrygermany2670]

Love that phrase " you gunky! "😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@reriley2002]

Cosbys comedy never goes out of style. The majority of it is based on things that really happened

[@derekrosenberg6466]

Gotta love Cosby's comedy, especially about his own experiences. I used to listen to his albums and watch his t.v. shows as a kid. Now I have three records and two double cassette albums and some remastered content on cd, now I listen with my own kids and laugh at the comedy of Cosby.

[@theBaron0530]

Cosby, and Bob Newhart.

[@JohnThorErnst]

"It's 10 O Clock that's when the monsters come out."

[@georgejohnson1124]

"Faster, Faster You Fool, You Fool!" Hilarious................

[@mayorofbakedbeansville3221]

"Used to go home with a hundred black jujyfruits all on our backs!". One of the greatest comedic lines ever!

[@waukivorycopse2402]

The universality( if that's a word!) of Cosby's humour is staggering. His joke about refusing to fill the glass water bottle in the fridge is brilliant.

[@Spydiggity]

I used to listen to this tape in the 80s when i was a small kid. Couldn't find any of the clips for years. I'm so glad I finally did, because they're as funny as ever.

[@bigtiger2]

My mom had this on 8-track! Brings back memories!

[@dmaniac86]

The greatest part of his story telling is how you can picture quite literally everything he's describing like it's a cartoon.

[@emontrewaters3530]

Because it is a cartoon based on the joke

[@SillyPom]

Oh god I can't do it! Forget any online 'try not to laugh' challenges or readings, twenty years later after listening to these classic routines growing up I *still* lose it every single time the wino enters the picture! Hahhhh I love it!

[@tvjeff53]

This routine by Bill Cosby is indeed one of my favorites, I have always liked Bill Cosby ever since I was a kid. I also enjoy Revenge and many other of his comedy routines, Bill Cosby has always been one of my favorites He is one of the great comedy men there is

[@psykomystro]

I don't know the man as a person. His image as far as I'm concerned will never change. I love and appreciate the genius of his art. Always have, always will.

[@SpeedyTase]

My mom bought this album when my dad was on the ship(he was in the US Navy at the height of the Vietnam War). We listened to this album, front to back, and laughed so hard!!!

[@annetteelliott1494]

Thank goodness for Utube ! Now in can see Bill in action as well as listening him again. I'm from .south Africa and he isn't very well known here but a friend who came back from America in 1966 brought some LP,s and ever since I've been hooked. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@annetteelliott1494]

Way back in 1966 I heard this for the 1st time on vinyl.....it was just super to hear it again....

[@parkerginn4256]

You need to listen to "Buck Buck" after hearing this!

[@annetteelliott1494]

....Fat Albert 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@Popsm0ke]

A piece of paper, somebody threw a piece of paper on me

[@OtisBigsbyTalking]

@@Popsm0ke Classic!

[@kickerpunter]

I used to listen to Bill Cosby stand up all the time when I younger. I had darn near all of this albums. I got the opportunity to see him live last February and he was incredible.

[@DoktorSick]

Billy Cosby is a comedy genius !!!

[@gilgamess]

The Astor Theater was located at 722-728 W. Girard Avenue. It is a vacant lot now. If Cosby lived at the Richard Allen Homes, he would have been about a mile away from his house in a not-too-great neighborhood. The bridge on 9th street is meant for trains and one of the stops is Cosby's alma mater, Temple. So, this means that Harold and Bill are walking home UNDER the 9th St. Bridge, which, by modern photos has lights, but they may or may not work properly. Therefore, it is possible so be scared by someone walking out of an alley, if you aren't paying attention. They could have gone down 11th St. which has no bridge over it, but the closest left is 9th St. Thanks to Google Maps, this routine makes more sense now!

[@GregSticker]

I remember this on LP Record. Yeah black vinyl on my mom's record player. I laughed then. I am laughing like a fool now!

[@kalinkakovaskoya7498]

So precious!

[@everetthurt4690]

I love Bill Cosby, absolutely the funniest man ever!

[@nodlon20]

LOVE THIS!! This was a funny one! NEVER FORGET IT!!!!!!

[@mikenewton474]

I have listened to this routine many times, but I never caught the name of the theater where Cosby saw the scary movie. It was the Astor Theater on Girard Street and apparently there was a 9th Street Bridge. When I looked it up on Cinema Treasures, a poster recalled having to walk under the bridge (not over as I had imagined) and that even in daylight, it was dark. So the bridge was like an overpass or having sidewalks along the side for pedestrian traffic. The movie I imagine Cosby saw was the House of Frankenstein which had all the monsters in it (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman) but not the Mummy, although I have read some pre publicity on the film that the Mummy was to be included. This film came out in 1944 but could have been shown a few years later in Philadelphia as a re-issue. Apparently the Astor Theater was at one time a vaudeville house as Bob Hope commented on appearing there as a young man.

[@WCPR1620AM]

This track is from the album "Revenge" as listed under the title "9th Street Bridge".

[@Astraldragon1]

well did they say anything? yes they said AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

[@BigGuy98977]

One of his funniest bits ever. Now lets listen to Buck, Buck.

[@pheenix42]

"We called him Weird Harold because he was six foot nine and weighed fifty pounds."

[@deathproofpony]

10 o'clock... that's when the monsters come out!

[@RobertWalker560587]

Thank you my friend for posting this. I looked 45 mins for some comedy by Bill Cosby and nothing untill now. I will always remember Bill who made me laugh as a kid Thank you.

[@ultnash]

I gave my first 999th like, Jesus was with me.

[@danstrickland4463]

ha ha 10 o clock is when the monsters come out

[@Badmanpornstar]

I LOVE THIS! Was trying to find this for years!

[@guitarylife3062]

just got this on vinyl for 5 cents at my local thrift shop!!

[@bradchanska]

So good!

[@mikenewton474]

I dig a little digging about the movie Cosby was watching...and I think it was House of Frankenstein (1944) which featured Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, Wolfman, but not the Mummy. I have read somewhere that the Mummy was originally planned, but it was felt that there were already enough monsters and they couldn't write the Mummy in. This is the one where Boris Karloff played the mad doctor and J. Carroll Naish was his hunchback assistant.

[@nikolugo]

Well did they saying anything?!?! Yes they said ahhhhhh!!!

[@markusvampyre]

This track holds a special place in my mind, mostly because of the time and place that I first heard this album. I was 3 years old when the album came out, but the first time I listened to this album was around 1975, around the same time that me and a friend shuck in to see the movie Jaws. My story goes about very similar to Bill Cosby's 'Old Weird Harold'- After seeing a afternoon movie (a Disney flick I can't remember), me and my friend Steven decide to sneak in to see Jaws. This movie, for the time it came out, was 'the' SCARIEST MOVIE we had ever seen, particularly after seeing the part of the boy getting pulled down, the water muffling his screams as blood filled the movie screen....it wasn't what you saw that was frightening (the mechanical shark), but what you didn't see that made it horrifying. When we left the theater to walk home, it was around 10pm, and it was DARK. We were looking around the corners of houses, just to make sure no sharks were gonna jump out and eat us.... ....while on dry land..... ....near Victorville, CA (70 miles AWAY from the ocean). Seriously, Jaws was so scary to me, I refused to take baths (showered only), afraid to swim (pools, as well as the ocean), and even was afraid of toilets (sewer sharks). This track reminds me of the good old days of me and my friend, afraid of land sharks.

[@anthonypendergrass868]

I made my debut in life the day after Jaws came out. That was my uncle's birthday too. I thought it was pretty cool when I found that out.... lol

[@BrotherDerrick3X]

This album was what gave birth to the Fat Albert cartoon.

[@toddhudson4411]

..."You're talking about 2 scared kids just walking arm & arm, not even picking our feet up off the ground because we wanna be ready if the monster touches us, we wanna be ready 2 jump straight up 2 heaven!!!"

[@waukivorycopse2402]

" If ya lift a foot up ya take a chance on goin' sideways!!!"😂

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

"Who's line is it anyway?" BILL COSBY RULES!!!

[@james2347charles]

I love this.. This is classic

[@davidbabineau170]

this guy is great and tells it like it is - I grew up with him , and nobody can take that away from we, yeah buck buck was real and the monsters were real ,

[@LaKellita]

I still got love for The Cos.

[@bearkoenig7336]

Funny no matter WHAT!!!!

[@robynbrown7205]

love this one.....

[@lisazinn866]

Randall thanks man. Chicken and Ham.

[@sparetimenovels]

Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle...

[@mattdigiulio3196]

The wino part is the best!

[@axeltrose]

and harold said "yeah" cause that's what he always says whenever I'm right This cracked me up

[@juniormorris3878]

Love Cosby. I don't care what people say.

[@briank06261973]

My dad had this album on 8 track.

[@cyknight2007]

Love his works no matter what

[@mattdigiulio3196]

Funny album!😄😄😄

[@MrFrontrowkid]

Bill Cosby was probably about eight years old when Universal released their multi-monster pictures: House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. Both had Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man in them, but not the Mummy. These films were shown separately as well as on a double bill, so very possibly he saw them.

[@GreatDarkSpot]

"The Mummy's on there, now!" "We don't wanna see that, we don't wanna see that!"

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

well its comedy just put it all together

[@horrorhabit8421]

Well , that's what I figure too. About 1943 or 1944, somewhere around there.

[@lukee1217]

6”9 50 pounds we used him to get the football out the sewer 😂

[@waukivorycopse2402]

My word, what a brilliant joke!!

[@mattdigiulio3196]

Listened to this on 33 l.p.. Funny then, funny now.

[@Trund27]

Gawd, I love this

[@airech]

so funny I've listen to this in my 4th hour

[@orchestramusicsoundtracks3937]

It’s diamond trails broadway musical

[@patrickruth153]

i want a copy of that incident report

[@VikingFetus]

Thanks GGG

[@briank06261973]

LOOK OUT LITTLE KIDS COMING HOME FROM THE HORROR MOVIE WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF HORROR MONSTERS IN IT! IT'S JUST NOBODY THAT CAN HURT YOU, IT'S JUST A LITTLE OLD WINO!

[@johnmiller8338]

Old weird harold fat-albert & bill-cosby 3 great-guys.

[@gottacatchemall72]

Still funny as ever!

[@johnmiller8338]

Fat-albert & the cosby-kids © 1977-1978 columbia screen-gems all rights reserved.

[@orchestramusicsoundtracks3937]

Ok we are making this a broadway show

[@psykomystro]

Anyone know of someone posting the original story of fat albert?

[@Jygerthe2nd]

Am I the only one under the age of 30 that already knew Faster Faster, You Fool You Fool before Whose Line? o.O

[@kimraudenbush615]

Probably

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

"Who's line is it anyways " is that segment on here anywhere?

[@annetteelliott1494]

😁😁😁😁😁 faster, faster you fool....😂😂😂😂

[@briank06261973]

HEY MISTER, WHAT TIME IS IT? It's....ten o'clock.

[@sssesoj]

If you came because of Who's line is it anyways and all you want to hear is the Faster Faster u Fool U Fool part then skip to 4:36 till the end

[@MWM1978]

It's.....................10 o'clock.......

[@rachelrandom6]

WLIIA!

[@EmoSkull-hv7fj]

So old weird harold is 6'9" and weighs about 50 lbs that's quite lanky

[@CriticToAll]

I am ONLY here because of Whose Line.

[@anthonyhall5781]

Funny!!!

[@TJDious]

I just know he was wrong. 😂

[@zachwulf-americanpatriot5015]

Faster faster u fool

[@albertbrown7068]

The audio sped up towards the end to the point that if I didn’t know what was being said I could not have understood it at all. I was disappointed about that

[@albertbrown7068]

I relistened to it and that didn’t happen. I take back what I said

[@joroma526]

this should be dedicated to daeg

[@mattdigiulio3196]

Don't forget green Necco wafers!🤮

[@pd7608]

I loved these records as a kid buuut he's guilty lol

[@Steve-mp7by]

CANCELLED

[@thervworld]

too do do to do kids come in did I bump into Harold faster faster you fool

[@mattdigiulio3196]

Lmao

[@horrorhabit8421]

This is the unlikeliest of horror classics. This and "Chicken Heart."