Be-Be's Kids

Bebe's Kids is the best stand up routine delivered by the best comedian ever. The album is hilarious on first listen, but it only gets better the more you hear it. Nobody could deliver a joke/story like Robin Harris. He really tries to get the audience involved in the routine which makes the listener feel like he/she is part of the audience. Bebe's Kids is filled with quotable lines that you will mentally retrieve in many life situations. Listen to this with a friend or group of friends and you'll have countless inside jokes afterwards.His commentary on sex, relationships, marriage, parenting, racism, economics, sports and celebrity give the album a wide variety of subject matter. He covers so many different topics that you get the feeling he could make a joke about anything.My favorite part is when he talks about going to see the Lakers and Clippers in LA. "I was sitting up so high, the concession man wouldn't even come up there." Going to church with Tiny was another good one. Most of his dealings with the audience were also LAMO funny.It was unfortunate that he past away a few years later. But at least he left us with this comic masterpiece.

Any fans of Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Paul Mooney will crack a rib laughing at the jokes of Robin Harris! Robin was at the top of his game when he was taking at an early age. This new generation knows nothing about the antics of Robin Harris and they think the Old school means Steve Harvey and the Kings of Comedy. Really?Comics like Robin are even harder to find in 2012 & 2013. Right before his untimely death, Robin had a TV series in the making, He's done movies and a HBO One Hour Comedy Special and more than likely he was working on a comedy tour. One thing about the life in Hollywood, it will ultimately kill you in the long-run or in his case...the short-run. Like Redd Foxx, Robin hadn't had the chance to actually work on his beloved situation comedy before he passed.Flying back and forth from California, Chicago and probably New York for filming and various guest star appearances, Robin was quickly learning that at his age, working these projects was a killer. Not having much of a home life by making his dreams a reality, the sacrifices were enormous and the ultimate price was his life in the end. I've never met Robin; but his comedic flow to me was genuinely natural. To be naturally funny is a blessing and not everybody can be funny and take the stage like you owned it like Robin Harris did. Although he had large footsteps & shoes to fill coming after Redd Foxx & Richard Pryor, he had no problem trying on those shoes and walking right into our hearts and mind.I will never forget Robin Harris nor his fearless attack on the comedy genre. If the music business was the same as the comedy business back then, we would have more real talents walking the globe verses being lowered in the ground over non-sense and foolishness of the haters. You can catch Robin Harris in movies such as: "House Party 1 & 2", Spike Lee's "Mo Better Blues" & "Do The Right Thing" and the legendary comedy classic by Eddie Murphy: "Harlem Nights".I recommend this to anyone who loves REAL comedy and loves to simply laugh via the spirit of Redd Foxx & Richard Pryor. If you love these legends, please add Robin Harris' "Bebe's Kids" to your playlist.Thanks for all the laughs Robin!R.I.P.

Robin Harris died before his creative comedic genius was recognized by the entire nation. He created the idea of BeBe's Kids in the early 80s, however for any family that lives in an Urban area is very familiar with "BeBe and her kids," ... even in 2011.My favorite skit by far is the "Piccolo Player." I definitely didn't see the one-liner at the end coming and everytime I hear it, I laugh like it was the first time hearing. He has a great way to tell stories...like he's at your house on Thanksgiving telling the stories to your family.Great comedy album!

Lost my original when moving so when I seen this on your site I had to buy it.

Robin Harris is comedy from the hood. He is very funny if you can appreciate humor from the hood...especially Compton! And Be Be's kids...they don't die...they multiply! And who the heck is Be-Be? Doesn't matter...if you like street humor, if you can appreciate playing the dozens, if you can appreciate single mothers, you will find something to laugh at with Robin Harris! I would buy this again!

I bought this on tape years ago and some how lost track of it the person I loaned it to swears they gave it back to me, and I have been searching for a copy for years. I found it on amazon and I was so happy. Robin Harris is over the top funny I listen to this in my car and I know people think that I am in sane because I am just falling over laughing. Robin is funny without being to vulgar and his comedy is features experiences that we all can relate to. Had he not died he would have been one of the funniest men in comedy and no doubt part of the Kings of Comedy.

I bought this back in the day in the form of a cassette. In an effort to continually update my cassettes to CDs, I bought this CD. I hadn't listened for a few years but it is still as funny as ever. If you were too young to know about Robin Harris or never took the time out to listen to him before he past away, I would highly recommend it. Although I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, Robin is one of the best that I've heard. He is right up there with the GREAT ONES!

I bought this on cassette when it first came out in 1989. Listen to it once a year in deer camp and it never fails to make me laugh. Too bad he is gone. He would've been a huge success.

There's a reason why so few comedians are recognized as the top guys (or gals). It's damn hard, not only to make people laugh, but to make a wide variety of people laugh. Maybe that's why I didn't enjoy Robin Harris so much, his comedy was not directed toward me (or a wide audience, in general). There were lots of references to Compton and lots of talk back and forth with the crowd where he was calling guys M.F.er's, etc. That may have been edgy in person, but on CD it just sounds vulgar and confrontational.At times R.H. used a quick, one-liner approach, which was occasionally effective; at other times he stretched bits out to absurd lengths (The Preacher, and Be-Be's Kids come to mind). At least once or twice, I had no idea what he said. Also, he performs a bit about cocaine where he intimates that he snorts the stuff (he denies it, then sniff-sniffs). If true, it wouldn't be surprising, listening to his manic delivery and reading of his early death due to heart attack.Anyway, some people will probably love this disc. For me, it was just so-so. I'm a much bigger fan of Bill Burr, Louis CK, Chris Rock, George Carlin and Steve Martin. Redd Foxx and Rodney Dangerfield are probably more similar to Robin Harris.