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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So I know that, through Peter, Firesign Theatre had the ability to literally change people’s lives and expressed to them our signal purpose, which was to say everything you know is wrong.” Among their ...

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When the Firesign Theatre’s first comedy album, “Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him,” was released in 1968, Rolling Stone rated the Los Angeles-based sketch comedy foursome as “the ...

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 ...

Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his home on Fox Island in Washington state. He was 74. Austin was dubbed the ...

Peter Bergman's KPFK radio show gave birth to Firesign Theatre. He also produced political satire for KPCC called “True Confessions of the Real World.” Peter Bergman, founder of the surreal comedy ...