Why Is There Air?

Why Is There Air?
Why Is There Air?
Live album by Bill Cosby
Released	August 1965
Recorded	1965; Flamingo Hotel; Las Vegas, Nevada
Genre	Stand-up comedy
Length	39:53
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Allan Sherman, Roy Silver
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Why Is There Air? (1965) is Bill Cosby's third album. It was recorded at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

The final track, "Hofstra", is an expanded re-telling of the "TV Football" routine from Cosby's second album, I Started Out as a Child. "I played for Temple University, and it's the truth," he says, "Don't keep asking 'Did you really play?' Yes, I really played. At one time I had a beautiful body."

Track listing[]

Side one[]

Kindergarten – 8:15
Personal Hygiene – 1:04
Shop – 3:10
Baby – 3:49
Driving in San Francisco – 3:45

Side two[]

$75 Car – 7:40
The Toothache – 4:10
Hofstra – 8:00

Legacy[]

Jerry Seinfeld has listed this album as a major influence for him, saying it "drove him crazy" and made him want to be a comedian.

References[]

^ Why Is There Air? at AllMusic

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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) (2013)
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) "Yes, Yes, Yes" (1976)
Television	The Bill Cosby Show (1969–71) The New Bill Cosby Show (1972) Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972–85) Cos (1976) 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) (1987) (2013) Bill Cosby 77 (unreleased)
Family	Camille Cosby Ennis Cosby Erika Cosby
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