Category: Comedy

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The Muppets — The Muppet Show

It’s so weird to think about how very many department stores there used to be that just don’t exist anymore, and in particular how many boomed and busted in the 1970s through the early...

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Flo & Eddie — Illegal, Immoral & Fattening

Now that I’m thinking about it this may be one of the earliest records I bought at Desert Shore Records, the used record store in Syracuse that for several years provided nearly all of...

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Firesign Theatre — The Three Faces of Al

From 1984, my final vinyl for The Firesign Theatre. Their next release, the rather excellent “Eat or Be Eaten,” came out in 1985 on CD, and that’s how I got it. This one and...

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Firesign Theatre — Shakespeare’s Lost Comedie

They hinted at an attempt at Shakespeare spoof on the back side of “Not Insane,” with the piece titled “Anything You Want To.” That is the name of the play captured here and presented...

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Firesign Theatre — Lawyer’s Hospital

I was pretty pleased at the level of support Rhino seemed to be giving to The Firesign Theatre in the early ’80s — Rhino was a label that specialized in minor repackaging of ’50s...

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Firesign Theatre — Fighting Clowns

1980: Firesign Theatre brings its incisive political humor to modern politics. It’s hard to explain, but in 1980, the ’60s seemed decades away. The early Firesign material from the late ’60s had always had...

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Proctor & Bergman — Give Us a Break

So, everything I said about Proctor & Bergman’s “What This Country Needs” a couple of days back applies to “Give Us A Break” as well. If I ever saw it before (it came out...

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Firesign Theatre — Just Folks, A Firesign Chat

This is a nice, laidback piece with a simple concept: an introduction to the denizens of Ducktown for the incoming president, whose name is Jimmy, which gives you some idea how old this is....