Played by a brass band augmented by accordion, fiddle and assorted percussion, the overture for "Let's Eat!," Hal Wilner's tribute to the Firesign Theater, sounded like something one might hear at an ...

“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 ...

They say that if you remember the ‘60s you weren’t there. But, like everything else about the Firesign Theatre’s batty world, there are exceptions. Over and over again during “Let’s Eat: Feasting on ...

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 ...

For a generation that came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, listening to Firesign Theatre was a way to laugh at and make some sense of those turbulent times. The surreal satire of the four comics ...

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 ...

If you are a graying Baby Boomer like me, you might remember a comedy troupe from the 1970s called “Firesign Theater.” They had their origin in FM “progressive” radio (KPFK-Los Angeles, 1966). The ...

He pronounced his name “Regnad Kcin” because from behind his desk, that’s how he read it, backward, through his glass office door. But listeners to Firesign Theater radio broadcasts and record albums ...