The Firesign Theatre (also known as the Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy troupe who first appeared on November 17, 1966, in a live performance...
86 KB (9,257 words) - 17:32, 19 May 2024
Nick Danger (section The Bride of Firesign)
fictional character created by the comedy group The Firesign Theatre, portrayed by Phil Austin. Danger is a parody of the hard-boiled detective, and is...
11 KB (1,380 words) - 04:56, 11 August 2023
Peter Bergman (comedian) (category The Firesign Theatre)
American comedian and writer, best known as the founder of the Firesign Theatre. He played Lt. Bradshaw in the Nick Danger series. Bergman was born in Cleveland...
5 KB (359 words) - 07:18, 22 April 2024
That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is the Firesign Theatre's third comedy album, released by Columbia Records in July 1970. In 1983, The New Rolling Stone Record...
12 KB (1,302 words) - 05:58, 24 March 2024
troupe the Firesign Theatre,:4,5,61 and the British comedy troupe Monty Python. The series was devised and written by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration...
69 KB (8,253 words) - 14:17, 1 March 2024
Everything You Know Is Wrong (category The Firesign Theatre albums)
Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in October 1974 on Columbia Records, it satirizes UFO conspiracy...
17 KB (2,299 words) - 07:53, 10 March 2024
David Ossman (category The Firesign Theatre)
of the Firesign Theatre and screenwriter of such films as Zachariah. Ossman attended Pomona College, where he starred in productions including The Crucible...
8 KB (766 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2023
Rocky Rococo (category Pizza chains of the United States)
character invented in 1969 by the Firesign Theatre. The chain grew as large as 120 stores in 1986, and the owners sold the franchise rights to another partner...
7 KB (680 words) - 17:33, 14 April 2024
There's Never Been Anything Like The Firesign Theatre Before or Since (liner notes). Laugh.com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2017. Retrieved...
22 KB (118 words) - 22:53, 2 May 2024
Just Folks... A Firesign Chat is a 1977 comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. The material is based on previously unreleased material from their 1970–1972...
10 KB (1,225 words) - 13:58, 13 November 2022
and Peter Bergman. The two started performing in 1973 while taking a break from the four-man comedy act The Firesign Theatre, with the comedy album "TV...
9 KB (991 words) - 22:37, 12 October 2023
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him is the first comedy album recorded by the Firesign Theatre. It was originally released in January 1968...
7 KB (818 words) - 11:36, 7 February 2023
Phil Austin (category The Firesign Theatre)
2015) was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre. Austin was born in Denver, Colorado, and later grew up in Fresno...
6 KB (536 words) - 06:37, 8 May 2024
Fighting Clowns (category The Firesign Theatre albums)
1980 album by the Firesign Theatre. It is unique among Firesign Theatre albums because it is primarily made up of songs rather than the group's usual...
4 KB (285 words) - 17:38, 19 May 2024
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death (category The Firesign Theatre albums)
album by the Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records. Its main theme satirizes 1990s radio formats and public hysteria over the Y2K programming...
5 KB (597 words) - 17:39, 19 May 2024
Laffoley, The Firesign Theatre, Gary Panter, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, James Hayward, Cathy Ward, Eric Wright and Craig Stecyk. The GCAC published...
9 KB (888 words) - 01:34, 15 May 2024
group the Firesign Theatre on the cover of their 1977 album Just Folks... A Firesign Chat. On the parody, each member of the Firesign Theatre appears...
3 KB (297 words) - 03:25, 2 November 2023
work influenced the American radio comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (1966–2012). The Firesigns wrote sophisticated comic radio plays, many of which...
12 KB (1,358 words) - 14:43, 28 April 2024
Philip Proctor (category The Firesign Theatre)
Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor and a member of the Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, films and television...
16 KB (1,516 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus (category The Firesign Theatre albums)
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy album made by the Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records, released in August 1971 on standard stereo...
11 KB (1,488 words) - 13:27, 2 February 2024
The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the seventh comedy album produced by the Firesign Theatre and released in January 1974 by Columbia Records. It...
6 KB (755 words) - 03:43, 19 December 2022
troupes include: the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Cheech & Chong, the Second City, Kalabhavan, the Firesign Theatre, Monty Python...
2 KB (182 words) - 09:53, 12 March 2024
mixed in with the synthesized sounds to humanize its robotic affect. The Firesign Theatre, a comedic radio play troupe, occasionally broke the fourth wall...
17 KB (2,144 words) - 19:51, 28 March 2024
George Lincoln Rockwell (redirect from The Fable of the Ducks and the Hens)
You Want To, The Firesign Theatre created a fictional presidential candidate, George Papoon, running on the equally fictional ticket, the Natural Surrealist...
43 KB (4,619 words) - 07:06, 15 May 2024
Eat or Be Eaten (album) (redirect from Eat or Be Eaten (The Firesign Theatre album))
Eat or Be Eaten is the seventeenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre, released on Mercury Records in 1985. Original Firesign Theatre member David Ossman...
2 KB (168 words) - 02:19, 14 January 2021
"TransMars Tango" for a live performance, starring Philip Proctor of The Firesign Theatre, and directed by Brian Price. In comics, Lee has written a wide variety...
9 KB (903 words) - 14:22, 24 April 2024
Dear Friends (album) (redirect from Dear Friends (Firesign Theatre))
Friends is the Firesign Theatre's fifth album to be released on Columbia Records. It is a compilation album, collecting the Firesigns' choice of the best comedy...
7 KB (811 words) - 02:55, 24 March 2023
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (category The Firesign Theatre albums)
All is the second comedy album recorded by the Firesign Theatre. It was originally released in July 1969 by Columbia Records. This side of the vinyl LP...
12 KB (1,619 words) - 23:49, 15 November 2023
one of the members of the comedy group Firesign Theatre. Although the record is considered to be Austin's "solo" album, the other three Firesigns make vocal...
3 KB (390 words) - 18:27, 15 April 2021
Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre is the eighteenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in 1993 as a two-disk CD on Laugh...
8 KB (241 words) - 06:35, 15 October 2023