"That's the Truth -- And Other Cosby Stories"

Charles L. Mee Jr., New York Times
March 14, 1965

...When Cosby assumes his role as an undercover agent on television this fall, viewers will get some inkling of how it would be to see Thelonius Monk playing piano in the orchestra of Lawrence Welk. To be sure, Cosby can play a simple melody -- as Monk can. But his métier is a sort of free-associative jazz improvisation, mixing the sacred and the profane.

There lurks, just over Cosby's shoulder, something more than a comedian, and one day that quality may fully emerge. He has the potential of a great clown, an artist who can conjure up his own world, bring it alive on stage and evoke from his audience that rare response to comedy: "That's the truth...That's a true story."