Ralph Spoilsport Motors, George Leroy Tirebiter, Ersatz Brothers, Nick Danger, Rebus Canebus and, “uh, Clem” are among the Bozos back on the bus as the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe re-creates its ...

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 ...

The Library of Congress called the Firesign Theatre “the Beatles of Comedy” when its 1970 album “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers” was selected for the National Recording Registry. An apt ...

Another great light of the 1960s counterculture has gone out. Peter Bergman, founder of the psychedelic-era comedy troupe Firesign Theatre, died March 9 at 72, leaving behind a legacy of densely ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the mid-1960s, The Firesign Theatre started on radio in Los Angeles and produced a series of records that became cult classics — with detective "Nick Danger: Third Eye" becoming one of their ...

Even for the Pioneer Valley, it was quite a turnout of flannel shirts and male ponytails. But the 25th anniversary tour of the Firesign Theatre is nothing if not a flash from the past. The legendary ...

"May we have what's left of your attention, please? If you have a cell phone, unwrap it and eat it now." So began 's surreal, hilarious, non-linear evening of unique radio comedy Saturday night at the ...

(JTA)– Another great light of the 1960s counterculture has gone out. Peter Bergman, founder of the psychedelic-era comedy troupe Firesign Theatre, died March 9 at 72, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Peter Bergman, a founder of Firesign Theatre, the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility and chaotic impulses of the countercultural 1960s and ‘70s into a popular radio show and a ...