Revenge (Bill Cosby album)

1967 live comedy album by Bill Cosby

Revenge

Live album by

Bill Cosby

Released| April 1967
Recorded| 1967
Harrah's
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Genre| Stand-up comedy
Length| 41:56
Label| Warner Bros.
Bill Cosby chronology
| Wonderfulness
(1966)  | Revenge
(1967)  | Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings
(1967)

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Revenge (1967) is the fifth album by comedian Bill Cosby. It was recorded live at Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada by Warner Bros. Records. It won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. It also hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the magazine's Pop album chart.

## Background

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Like earlier albums such as I Started Out as a Child and Wonderfulness, this album features several anecdotes based on Cosby's childhood memories. It also serves to introduce Fat Albert, one of his most enduring characters.

The track "Buck Buck" contains Cosby's first recorded mention of Fat Albert, his Philadelphia childhood friend who would later become the basis for the hit cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids; Albert's signature cry "Hey! Hey! Hey!", a trademark of the later TV series, is also heard for the first time. Old Weird Harold, another of Cosby's friends/characters, figures prominently in the "9th Street Bridge" routine.

## Track listing

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### Side one

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1. Revenge – 6:00
2. Two Daughters – 5:10
3. Two Brothers – 2:54
4. The Tank – 1:36
5. Smoking – 2:56
6. Wives – 2:37

### Side two

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1. Cool Covers – 4:22
2. 9th St. Bridge – 5:09
3. Buck, Buck – 9:13
4. Planes – 2:03

## See also

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* Buck buck
* List of number-one R&B albums of 1967 (U.S.)

## References

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1. ^ Revenge at AllMusic

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Bill Cosby

* Filmography
* Discography
* In advertising
* List of awards
* List of honorary degrees

Comedy albums|

* Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! (1963)
* I Started Out as a Child (1964)
* Why Is There Air? (1965)
* Wonderfulness (1966)
* Revenge (1967)
* To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968)
* 200 M.P.H. (1968)
* It's True! It's True! (1969)
* 8:15 12:15 (1969)
* Sports (1969)
* Live: Madison Square Garden Center (1970)
* When I Was a Kid (1971)
* For Adults Only (1971)
* Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby (1972)
* Fat Albert (1973)
* My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do? (1977)
* Bill's Best Friend (1978)
* Bill Cosby: Himself (1982)
* Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand (1986)
* Oh, Baby! (1991)

Music albums|

* Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (1967)
* Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! (1968)
* Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (1971)
* Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs (1971)
* Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band (1972)
* At Last Bill Cosby Really Sings (1974)
* Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (1976)
* Disco Bill (1977)
* State of Emergency (2009)

Compilations|

* The Best of Bill Cosby (1969)
* More of the Best of Bill Cosby (1970)
* Bill (1973)
* Down Under (1975)

Singles|

* "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)" (1967)

Television|

* The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71)
* The New Bill Cosby Show (1972–73)
* Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–85)
* Cos (1976)
* Picture Pages (1978–84)
* The Cosby Show (1984–92)
* A Different World (1987–93)
* The Cosby Mysteries (1994–95)
* Cosby (1996–2000)
* Little Bill (1999–2004)
* Fatherhood (2004–05)

Stand-up comedy
films and specials|

* Himself (1983)
* Bill Cosby 77 (unreleased)

Family|

* Camille Cosby
* Ennis Cosby
* Erika Cosby

Sexual assault cases|

* Andrea Constand lawsuit
* Trial of Bill Cosby
* We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)

Related articles|

* Fatherhood (1986)
* Pound Cake speech (2004)
* Tetragrammaton Records
* Collection of African-American art

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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

1950s|

* "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" – Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1959)

1960s|

* The Battle of Kookamonga – Homer and Jethro / Inside Shelley Berman – Shelley Berman (1960)
* Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris – Jo Stafford & Paul Weston / The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Bob Newhart (1961)
* An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Elaine May & Mike Nichols (1962)
* The First Family – Vaughn Meader (1963)
* "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" – Allan Sherman (1964)
* I Started Out as a Child – Bill Cosby (1965)
* Why Is There Air? – Bill Cosby (1966)
* Wonderfulness – Bill Cosby (1967)
* Revenge – Bill Cosby (1968)
* To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With – Bill Cosby (1969)

1970s|

* Sports – Bill Cosby (1970)
* The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress – Flip Wilson (1971)
* This Is A Recording – Lily Tomlin (1972)
* FM & AM – George Carlin (1973)
* Los Cochinos – Cheech & Chong (1974)
* That Nigger's Crazy – Richard Pryor (1975)
* ...Is It Something I Said? – Richard Pryor (1976)
* Bicentennial Nigger – Richard Pryor (1977)
* Let's Get Small – Steve Martin (1978)
* A Wild and Crazy Guy – Steve Martin (1979)

1980s|

* Reality...What a Concept – Robin Williams (1980)
* No Respect – Rodney Dangerfield (1981)
* Rev. Du Rite – Richard Pryor (1982)
* Live on the Sunset Strip – Richard Pryor (1983)
* Eddie Murphy: Comedian – Eddie Murphy (1984)
* "Eat It" – "Weird Al" Yankovic (1985)
* Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) – Whoopi Goldberg (1986)
* Those of You with or Without Children, You'll Understand – Bill Cosby (1987)
* A Night at the Met – Robin Williams (1988)
* Good Morning, Vietnam – Robin Williams (1989)

1990s|

* P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults – Peter Schickele (1990)
* P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities – Peter Schickele (1991)
* P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio – Peter Schickele (1992)
* P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion – Peter Schickele (1993)
* Jammin' in New York – George Carlin (1994)
* Live from Hell – Sam Kinison (1995)
* Crank(y) Calls – Jonathan Winters (1996)
* Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations – Al Franken (1997)
* Roll with the New – Chris Rock (1998)
* The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 – Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (1999)

2000s|

* Bigger & Blacker – Chris Rock (2000)
* Brain Droppings – George Carlin (2001)
* Napalm & Silly Putty – George Carlin (2002)
* Robin Williams: Live on Broadway – Robin Williams (2003)
* Poodle Hat – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2004)
* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show (2005)
* Never Scared – Chris Rock (2006)
* The Carnegie Hall Performance – Lewis Black (2007)
* The Distant Future – Flight of the Conchords (2008)
* It's Bad for Ya – George Carlin (2009)

2010s|

* A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! – Stephen Colbert (2010)
* Stark Raving Black – Lewis Black (2011)
* Hilarious – Louis C.K. (2012)
* Blow Your Pants Off – Jimmy Fallon (2013)
* Calm Down Gurrl – Kathy Griffin (2014)
* Mandatory Fun – "Weird Al" Yankovic (2015)
* Live at Madison Square Garden – Louis C.K. (2016)
* Talking for Clapping – Patton Oswalt (2017)
* The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas – Dave Chappelle (2018)
* Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle (2019)

2020s|

* Sticks and Stones – Dave Chappelle (2020)
* Black Mitzvah – Tiffany Haddish (2021)
* Sincerely Louis CK – Louis C.K. (2022)
* The Closer – Dave Chappelle (2023)
* What's In a Name? – Dave Chappelle (2024)
* The Dreamer – Dave Chappelle (2025)

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