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Thompson remembers how he made a special audition tape for Cosby. “The legend is that [Cosby] watched, like, twenty seconds of it and just gave me the job,” says the Fat Albert star...
Cosby, who voiced many of the characters in the Fat Albert cartoon, gave Thompson relative freedom with personalizing characterization: he did not even coach on how to deliver the Albert tagline, “Hey, hey, hey, it’s Fat Albert...
...know that Fat Albert is a clean thing, and it’s a Cosby thing, and I wouldn’t want to do anything to tarnish it, but I want also to be free to do whatever is funny for me,” says Thompson...
...While Fat Albert follows in the tradition of Cosby’s wholesome comedy and “SNL” is more raucous, Thompson is emphatic that, “Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words...
...Pixies never made sense. A bald, fat genius, a transplant from the Philippines, a chain-smoking matron and a stage magician have no right to write songs about Puerto Rico, the Old Testament and UFOs that are actually good, much less classics. They were far too improbable to exist for any length of time. The concert Thursday was a fair historical reconstruction of that period, and it would be too much to hope for the real thing...