Why Is There Air?


Why Is There Air? 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 at the start of the routine. "Don't keep asking me, 'Did you really play?' Yes, I really played. At one time I had a beautiful body."

Track listing

Side one

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

    Side two

  6. $75 Car – 7:40
  7. The Toothache – 4:10
  8. Hofstra – 8:00

    Legacy

has cited this album as a major influence, stating that it "drove crazy" and inspired his career as a comedian.