* The character Ralph Spoilsport recites the end of the soliloquy as the last lines of the Firesign Theatre's album " How Can You Be In Two Places At Once ( When You're Not Anywhere At All )"

* The Firesign Theatre's 1968 album Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him includes a sketch satirizing the hippie counterculture called " W. C. Fields Forever.

These books, The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays and The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book, feature background information, satirical introductions and parodic histories, as well as transcripts from their first seven albums.

The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays.

The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book.

" Half a Century High ," a portrait of haunting by televisual media, works as a proto-Cyberpunk document, foreshadowing such bleak futures as The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus and Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

" Since May 2007, the Talon News site has been a parody, and its pages link to The Firesign Theatre's site.

Guercio produced the Firesign Theatre's single " Station Break ," which was released in March 1969 ( and later appeared on the Forward Into The Past anthology ), and in April 1970, Guercio produced the " Shoes for Industry " segment of their classic LP Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.

The Firesign Theatre's piece " Temporarily Humboldt County " mentions a character named " Sam Paku ".

The album cover by William Stout references many of Firesign Theatre's previous albums.

* The Firesign Theater's How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All ( Columbia CS-9884 — July 1969 ) includes a character " Bill " who speaks in fluent W. C. Fields-ese.

Later in 1969, the group's producer, Bill Szymczyk, was music coordinator for the movie Zachariah, a sort of " western rock musical " based on the novel Siddhartha by writer Hermann Hesse, directed by George Englund and co-written by Joe Massot and the Firesign Theater comedy group.

Nick Danger is a fictional character featured in several of the albums produced by the comedy group The Firesign Theatre: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All ( 1969 ), Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe ( 1979 ), The Three Faces of Al ( 1984 ) and The Bride of Firesign ( 2001 ).

Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him was the first comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre.

" On their next album, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, the name is spelled " Firesign Theatre.

Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death is a comedy album by The Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records.

Happy Talk was satirized by the Firesign Theater in their 1974 album Everything You Know Is Wrong.

This song comes from the Firesign Theatre album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.

Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre released in October 1974 on Columbia Records.

Boom Dot Bust is a comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre and released in 1999 on Rhino Records.

On the album Everything You Know Is Wrong by the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, the recording's narrator plays a wire recording of a medicine show featuring a " Dr. Firesign " promoting " Chief Dancing Knockout's Pyramid Pushover Paste " and " Don Bruhaha's Inca Hell-Oil Tonic ".

* The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, a 1974 comedy album by the Firesign Theatre ( LP Columbia KC32730 ) is a pastiche with protagonists Hemlock Stones, the ' Great Defective ', and his biographer and companion, Dr. John Flotsom, O. D., part of which takes place aboard the " Matilda Brigg ".

The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is a comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre and released in early 1974 by Columbia Records.

The Firesign Theatre commentary website benway. com, in a much more positive spin, notes about the album that " Careful listening reveals Firesign in all their glory: poetic (" blackening peasant's houses ", " me and the doc on the dock with the dog -- the deadly dog "), silly (" I sat on my pipe!

* Dear Friends ( Firesign Theatre album ), a 1972 album by comedy group The Firesign Theatre

This command was parodied by the Firesign Theatre in their album I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus.

In the Next World, You're on Your Own was the last comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.

**( re-released in expanded edition as Anythynge You Want To Firesign Theatre Records MSUG090, 2001, 2005 )

* The Firesign Theater's Everything You Know Is Wrong includes a recording of a stage play about how the South won the Civil War, with repartee between a Southern belle and her former slave Uncle Tom, who introduces himself as Uncle Field Marshall Thomas Legree Quadroon.

The first CD to be released with CD + G graphics was Eat or Be Eaten by Firesign Theatre in 1985.

Two decades of spoken word and performance art include highlights such as Hal Willner's Poe Show at St. Anne's Episcopal Church, De Sade / Burroughs / Poe with Sean Lennon, Steve Buscemi and Richard Hell at The ISSUE Project Room, Lou Reed's The Raven with Laurie Anderson and Fisher Stevens at St. Ann's Warehouse and Let's Eat: Feasting on the Firesign Theatre at Royce Hall with John Goodman, Todd Rundgren and Ralph Carney.

Many of these stations played records by bands few AM radio listeners had heard of at the time such as Led Zeppelin, The Chambers Brothers, Iron Butterfly, and spoken-comedy acts like Firesign Theatre.

The defective Sony re-release also includes one un-marked bonus track at the end " The Mantras and The Chakras " which is not included on any other Firesign release.

O ' Rourke and Cameron Crowe, plus a roster of columnists including at times William S. Burroughs, Paul Krassner, David G. Hartwell, the Firesign Theater, and sometimes Paul Williams himself.

* On several occasions, the director of ACE Jeff Rosenbaum has organized performances of Firesign Theatre radio plays on stage at Starwood, performed by organizers and guest speakers of the event under the name " Firesign Clones ".

Firesign productions continued sporadically, but Proctor and Bergman also performed as a duo, and Austin and Ossman worked individually and together in a few stage shows and most notably in the writing and production of In the Next World, You're on Your Own.

*" Firesign Theatre — In The Next World You're On Your Own CD — AUDIO ONLY.

All four Firesign members have spoken of their admiration for this show.

* All Things Firesign

Of the four members of Firesign Theatre, Proctor has had the greatest amount of mainstream exposure as an actor, having appeared occasionally on television in small roles, including episodes of All in the Family and Night Court, and Off Broadway in the 1964 musical The Amorous Flea.

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy recording made by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.