Category: Comedy

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Proctor & Bergman — What This Country Needs

Sometimes I can be an idiot. Other times, even when I wasn’t an idiot, I remember how close I came to being an idiot. And this record is an example of that. Honestly, I...

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Firesign Theatre — Everything You Know Is Wrong

The Firesign Theatre’s seventh album is a real immersive experience. Atypical for Firesign, this one is narrated directly to the listener by Happy Harry Cox, a somewhat harmless believer in all kinds of fringe...

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Firesign Theatre — The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra

The Firesign Theatre got back together in 1973 after a not-terribly long breakup, to put together this absolutely brilliant Sherlock Holmes parody, their seventh album, released in January 1974. Less surreal (but no less...

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David Ossman’s How Time Flys

If anyone thought that the Firesigns had completely come apart based on “Not Insane,” this 1973 release should have provided comfort that they did in fact still know how to construct a story and...

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Firesign Theatre — Not Insane

Their sixth album could well have been their last. The group was splintering apart. Boy, does this sound like it. This is, and Firesign Theatre acknowledges it, a complete mess. It is a mix...

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Firesign Theatre — Dear Friends

Dear Friends was Firesign Theatre’s fifth album, and by pure coincidence, it was also the fifth album of theirs that I procured. Instead of the surreal “theatre of the mind” approaches they had taken...