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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.
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Firesign and continued
Even after the big name comedians moved to television, radio comedy continued, notably from Bob and Ray, The Firesign Theatre and segments heard on NBC's Monitor.
Firesign and Proctor
The Firesign Theatre is an American comedy troupe consisting of Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor.
* 1979-J-Men Forever ( Firesign Theatre featuring Peter Bergman and Phil Proctor ) ( 75 min.
Philip Proctor ( born July 28, 1940 in Goshen, Indiana ) is an American actor, voice actor and a member of The Firesign Theatre.
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 had some very interesting people around me, which those folks became The Firesign Theatre: David Ossman was connected with the station, Phil Austin was connected with the station, and Phil Proctor came out to do a show and we connected in LA and that was really the genesis of that whole happening.
The live production starred Philip Proctor of The Firesign Theatre, and was directed by Brian Price.
King, radio personalities Roger Barkley and Al Lohman, composer Ira Newborn, director Russ Meyer, model Corinne Wahl, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, Firesign Theater member Phil Proctor and independent film actor Paul Bartel.
Proctor and Bergman are the comedians Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman, two of the four members of The Firesign Theatre.
Americathon ( also known as Americathon 1998 ) is a 1979 American comedy film starring John Ritter, Fred Willard, Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, and Nancy Morgan, with narration by George Carlin, based on a play by Firesign Theatre alumni Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman.
Firesign and Bergman
The surviving members of the Firesign Theatre paying tribute to the late Peter Bergman April 21, 2012.
Pyst was written by Peter Bergman, a co-founder of the Firesign Theatre, and published by Parroty Interactive.
Peter Paul Bergman ( November 29, 1939 – March 9, 2012 ) was an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre.
* Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theatre
* Peter Bergman, comedian, member of Firesign Theatre.
Firesign and also
Kiln People also makes extensive literary and conceptual references, including those to Firesign Theatre and the legend of the golem.
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.
Firesign and performed
In September 1967, The Firesign Theatre performed an adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges ' short story " La Muerte y La Brujula " (" Death and the Compass ") on Radio Free Oz.
* 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 and Austin
Austin is best known for his work as part of The Firesign Theatre ( of which he is the only constant member ), where he plays the group's best-known creation, Nick Danger.
Firesign and Ossman
* David Ossman, founder of Firesign Theater
***( An official Firesign Theatre release but without David Ossman )
***( An official Firesign Theatre release but without David Ossman )
David Ossman ( born December 6, 1936 in Santa Monica, California ) is an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre.
In the liner notes to Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre, David Ossman is cheerful when discussing it and says that " I always thought it was the closest thing to the relentlessly pun-filled one-acts we did in clubs.
Firesign and few
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.
Firesign and stage
* 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.
Firesign and shows
* Mark Thomas Presents …, Radio 4 ( 2005 ) ( shows on Stan Freberg, the Firesign Theatre, Shelley Berman and Mort Sahl )
Firesign and most
In 2008, the Firesign Theatre released a four-CD boxed set based on their most famous character, Nick Danger " Third Eye.
The Firesign Theatre are still performing today, most recently playing a series of live performances in December 2011.
Firesign and Next
In the Next World, You're on Your Own was the last comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.
*" Firesign Theatre — In The Next World You're On Your Own CD — AUDIO ONLY.
Firesign and World
* 1973-Let's Visit the World of the Future ( stars Bozo characters from Firesign Theatre, directed by Ivan Stang ) ( 44 min.
Firesign and You're
* The Firesign Theatre's 1969 album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All contains a section originally titled " The Policemen's Brawl " but retitled " Zeno's Evil " when released on CD.
* 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 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.
" 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.
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 ).
Firesign and on
* Austin's bio on Firesign Theatre site
Inspired by The Goon Show, “ the four or five crazy guys ” of the Firesign Theatre built a large following with their satirical plays on recordings exploring the dramatic possibilities inherent in stereo.
* The Firesign Theatre ( a comedy troupe whose jokes often rely on ' pataphors )
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.
***( A six cassette collection of The Firesign Theatre ’ s presidential and campaign commentaries which aired on NPR during the 1980 election season.
In the 1970s and ' 80s the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre released a number of satirical record albums ; several featured spoofs of old-time radio featuring the character Nick Danger, Third Eye, who was loosely based on Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar.
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy recording made by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.
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.
This segment, included on both the Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre and Forward Into The Past compilations, probably comes closest to being a self-contained bit that can be successfully separated from the rest of the story.
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death is a comedy album by The Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records.
The Firesign Theatre was formed as a result of Bergman's show Radio Free Oz on KPFK.
Ossman's roles during his Firesign years include George Leroy (" Peorgie ") Tirebiter on Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and Catherwood in the " Nick Danger " series.
Spiritus Cheese lasted just a year-someone complained about a four-letter word in a Firesign Theatre skit broadcast on the air-but by then the station had found its niche.
" 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.
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.
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!
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