Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
“A mighty hot dog is our lord….” The listener hears this incantation, this sacrilege, a few minutes into the Firesign Theater’s recording titled Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Already, to ...
On the night that the four members of what would become the Firesign Theater comedy group first appeared on the air together on KPFK, Pacifica Radio’s Los Angeles station, they pretended to be ...
Fall Comedy Reads: A Look Back at the Firesign TheatreWelcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this [… ...
This PBS special, concocted in support of the wickedly witty Firesign Theatre's "The Bride of Firesign" CD, has the comedy troupe delivering high-octane humor in a number of classic bits. Featured are ...
An early edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide said that for the offbeat comedy group Firesign Theatre, changing TV channels was the fundamental aesthetic. "It is indeed, isn't it?" Phil Austin, ...
For the folks of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, Earth Day is an opportunity to preserve pockets of surrealism on our planet. Listen to a collection of Earth Day-related satire and sheer silliness ...
Just noticed the other day that some of the Firesign Theatre's earlier albums have recently come out on CD, so I grabbed a couple of Amazon for my dad. This should kill two birds with one stone - gets ...
Firesign Theater <BR><BR>A comedy troupe to be exact. They're still around doing stuff I believe. They have been a staple on Dr. Demento throughout the years, though no specific tracks pop into my ...