Hey, Hey, Hey: Bill Cosby on 'Fat Albert,' Yesterday and Today — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

For audiences of a certain generation, their introduction to Bill Cosby was not through his kinetic stand-up comedy and not as the wisecracking household head Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.” To these viewers who grew up glued to their TV sets on Saturday mornings, Mr. Cosby was first and foremost an overweight neighborhood kid with a rallying cry of “Hey, hey, hey!”; as well as a bucktoothed adolescent with an unusual speech impediment; and, somehow, a more youthful version of himself.

Read More