No matter how wonderful your real father is, chances are at some point you compared him to the sweater-wearing, Jell-O-Pudding-Pop-eating ideal: Bill Cosby. And, while Dr. Cliff Huxtable may have hung up his sweater for the last time in 1992, Cosby never stopped performing—on air or off—or lost his comedic edge. See for yourself when he performs at the Stamford Center for the Arts’ Palace Theatre on March 16. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to see some of the characters he introduced in his 2011 book, I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was).