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...
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Nick Danger (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Aurora, Texas, UFO incident (category UFO sightings in the United States)
dramatizes the incident as well as combines it with the Nazi conspiracy theory of Die Glocke. The incident is satirized in The Firesign Theatre's 1974 comedy...
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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...
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mixed in with the synthesized sounds to humanize its robotic affect. The Firesign Theatre, a comedic radio play troupe, occasionally broke the fourth wall...
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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...
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Austin, of the comedy group the Firesign Theatre, expressed his thoughts about the difference in 1993 liner notes to the Fighting Clowns album: To me...
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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...
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work influenced the American radio comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (1966–2012). The Firesigns wrote sophisticated comic radio plays, many of which...
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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...
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Laffoley, The Firesign Theatre, Gary Panter, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, James Hayward, Cathy Ward, Eric Wright and Craig Stecyk. The GCAC published...
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Forward Into the Past is a 1976 compilation album by the Firesign Theatre. It presents the "Greatest Hits" from their nine Columbia albums and includes...
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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...
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From the Shadows was the twenty-fifth anniversary reunion tour of the comedy group the Firesign Theatre, performed at twenty cities across the United...
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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...
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introduced her to Monty Python, The Firesign Theatre, and Saturday Night Live. Jones has worked as a casting director in the entertainment business since...
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The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook is a four-CD boxed set of most recorded material by comedy group the Firesign...
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