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.On “the Cos,” his nickname for Bill Cosby, Thompson is full of praise; he gushed about how surreal it was to work with his hero.“I mean, I saw him yesterday, but I don’t believe it,” says Thompson. “I’ve been watching Bill Cosby all my life, he’s the main person, the first comic who I really identified with because I couldn’t watch Eddie Murphy, I couldn’t watch Richard Pryor growing up, so really all I had was Bill Cosby.”Thompson adds that Cosby, “told me that I was a blessing to him, so I thought that was very sweet of him; I made a new friend.”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.”“I 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
once they couldn't recognize who the fukk one of these scrubs were who got more than 5 seconds of screen time and everyone realized "...oh, that must be a new cast member"
eddie for being the bigger man
