The Firesign Theatre
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social
Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs! www.firesigntheatre.com firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
The visual aid to the Dear Friends episode "Live at the Ash Grove" that we've all been waiting for
#CadillacCrushedByWhaleMeat
#CadillacCrushedByWhaleMeat
Happy 55th Exploding Whale Day! (This was written in 2020 which is why it says 50th, mmkay?)
Beached Whale Blow-Up: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Florence Exploding Whale
Newly-scanned KATU news film shows clear, vibrant footage of the infamous November 12, 1970, Florence whale explosion.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The visual aid to the Dear Friends episode "Live at the Ash Grove" that we've all been waiting for
#CadillacCrushedByWhaleMeat
#CadillacCrushedByWhaleMeat
And he was Lilian Wroth in his extremity
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And he was Lilian Wroth in his extremity
A thing we did not know until this week is that the brilliant Bruce Litz's cover for "Three Faces of Al" does in fact have a wild variety of color going on
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A thing we did not know until this week is that the brilliant Bruce Litz's cover for "Three Faces of Al" does in fact have a wild variety of color going on
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As we start into the holiday buying season, we'd like to remind you of our landmark archival release for @firesigntheatre.bsky.social, Dope Humor of the Seventies, available now, on #vinyl, at our website.
tinyurl.com/ymd7sk23
tinyurl.com/ymd7sk23
STAND UP! RECORDS PRESENTS THE FIRST NEW FIRESIGN THEATRE RECORD IN 35 YEARS, “ DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES ” — The Firesign Theatre
Legendary comedy group The Firesign Theatre and Stand Up! Records present a new double-LP compilation, DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES : a two-record set including 83 minutes of previously uncollec...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
As we start into the holiday buying season, we'd like to remind you of our landmark archival release for @firesigntheatre.bsky.social, Dope Humor of the Seventies, available now, on #vinyl, at our website.
tinyurl.com/ymd7sk23
tinyurl.com/ymd7sk23
BUT WAIT, you remember that one Dear Friends show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Inquisition" from 10/18/1970 that was really good but there was a chunk missing? Any guesses? WHY YES, and here's a link to the restored show, again totally free:
archive.org/details/ft-d...
archive.org/details/ft-d...
The Firesign Theatre, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Inquisition" (restored aircheck) : Firesign Theatre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Firesign Theatre presents A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Inquisition, broadcast as part of their radio series Dear Friends on KPFK-FM on...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BUT WAIT, you remember that one Dear Friends show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Inquisition" from 10/18/1970 that was really good but there was a chunk missing? Any guesses? WHY YES, and here's a link to the restored show, again totally free:
archive.org/details/ft-d...
archive.org/details/ft-d...
And AS IF THAT WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH, that open reel also contained "The Sword and the Stoned", the second version Firesign performed on December 17, 1967. It was missing the first minute and a half. No longer! That show likewise is now available on @archive.org :
archive.org/details/ft-l...
archive.org/details/ft-l...
Firesign Theatre "The Sword and the Stoned" (second version, truncated ending), live at the Magic Mushroom : Firesign Theatre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Firesign Theatre's The Sword and the Stoned, performed live at the Magic Mushroom club (11345 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA) on 12/17/1967. This is the...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
And AS IF THAT WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH, that open reel also contained "The Sword and the Stoned", the second version Firesign performed on December 17, 1967. It was missing the first minute and a half. No longer! That show likewise is now available on @archive.org :
archive.org/details/ft-l...
archive.org/details/ft-l...
As buyers of Live at the Magic Mushroom know, our reissue contained every Magic Mushroom play except "The Last Tunnel to Fresno", because no copy was known. YOU WILL NEVER GUESS what just showed up.
archive.org/details/ft-l...
archive.org/details/ft-l...
Firesign Theatre, The Last Tunnel to Fresno (Magic Mushroom play) : Firesign Theatre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Last Tunnel to Fresno by the Firesign Theatre, performed live at the Magic Mushroom (11345 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA) on November 5 1967. From an...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
As buyers of Live at the Magic Mushroom know, our reissue contained every Magic Mushroom play except "The Last Tunnel to Fresno", because no copy was known. YOU WILL NEVER GUESS what just showed up.
archive.org/details/ft-l...
archive.org/details/ft-l...
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Celebrity to Catch a Predator
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Celebrity to Catch a Predator
MGM letterhead logo from 1965. Taken from this classic "I, a powerful person, am completely useless"-type letter from the collection of Firesign's Phil Austin (we've all saved one of those!). Guy Green was a director, at the time lensing "A Patch of Blue" for MGM.
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
MGM letterhead logo from 1965. Taken from this classic "I, a powerful person, am completely useless"-type letter from the collection of Firesign's Phil Austin (we've all saved one of those!). Guy Green was a director, at the time lensing "A Patch of Blue" for MGM.
"Eggs to Market: The Story of Automated Egg Processing" (1964, Film Associates of California), featuring uncredited narration by our own David Ossman (who says "I think I did a half dozen voiceovers for these guys"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRH...
Eggs To Market (1964)
YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films
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August 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Eggs to Market: The Story of Automated Egg Processing" (1964, Film Associates of California), featuring uncredited narration by our own David Ossman (who says "I think I did a half dozen voiceovers for these guys"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRH...
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I wrote about the audiotape Allen Ginsberg used to compose his great Vietnam-War-and-media poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social
Ginsberg goes electric }}}}{
poetry and audiotape in the year of revolver and blonde on blonde
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July 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wrote about the audiotape Allen Ginsberg used to compose his great Vietnam-War-and-media poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social
@firesigntheatre.bsky.social
It's Bandcamp Friday! Mising something from our shop? We deliver—everywhere!
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firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
The Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre emerged from Radio Free Oz, a Los Angeles underground radio program, in 1966. Over five decades they released over two dozen comedy albums and ten books of plays. Their album "Don...
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's Bandcamp Friday! Mising something from our shop? We deliver—everywhere!
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
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Featuring @vpmattsaxe.bsky.social as the 1960s version of Herschel F. Comedy-Hour, part of the multi-generational management team who managed our multi-generational comedy team. Herschel was most recently played by @firesigntheatre.bsky.social's own Phil Proctor. Mr. Beeper portrayed by Mike Shaver.
Where were YOU? 1968, "Happy Tidings of Joy and Christmas Wishes & More from Dan and Jay's Comedy Hour," fan club exclusive. Featuring Dabnish J. Germillingston ("Dan") & Jatem Q. Humm ("Jay"), as well as regulars Herschel F. Comedy-Hour and Mr. Beeper. #DJCH #History #Comedy #SyntheticCheese
May 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Featuring @vpmattsaxe.bsky.social as the 1960s version of Herschel F. Comedy-Hour, part of the multi-generational management team who managed our multi-generational comedy team. Herschel was most recently played by @firesigntheatre.bsky.social's own Phil Proctor. Mr. Beeper portrayed by Mike Shaver.
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Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️🌈
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️🌈
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The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a long piece about Jeremy Braddock's book about the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social. Now available through @ucpress.bsky.social.
Link in replies.
We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.
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We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.
There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute | Los Angeles Review of Books
Colin Marshall reviews Jeremy Braddock’s “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums.”
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April 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social had a long piece about Jeremy Braddock's book about the @firesigntheatre.bsky.social. Now available through @ucpress.bsky.social.
Link in replies.
We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.
Link in replies.
We also released Firesign's double #LP for Dope Humor of the Seventies (scroll for image), available on our site now.
Now available on Bandcamp, a remastered, ultra-deluxe reissue of "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death", the first salvo in Firesign's "We're Doomed" trilogy for Rhino in 1998. Bonus tracks! Fully restored audio! A PDF with too much in it! And CHEAP! firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/give-m...
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, by The Firesign Theatre
43 track album
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February 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Now available on Bandcamp, a remastered, ultra-deluxe reissue of "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death", the first salvo in Firesign's "We're Doomed" trilogy for Rhino in 1998. Bonus tracks! Fully restored audio! A PDF with too much in it! And CHEAP! firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/give-m...
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I wrote about the greatest work of Firesign Theatre fan art and how it led, via the Situationist International, to the Church of the SubGenius.
@subgenius.bsky.social @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
@subgenius.bsky.social @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
Let's Visit the World of the Future
how the greatest work of Firesign fan art created the Church of the SubGenius
jeremybraddock.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I wrote about the greatest work of Firesign Theatre fan art and how it led, via the Situationist International, to the Church of the SubGenius.
@subgenius.bsky.social @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
@subgenius.bsky.social @firesigntheatre.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
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A little #firesigntheatre #fanart for Martain Space Party I did for the All-Out Monster Revolt magazine a few years ago. Actually 2 1\2 posters. Probably one of my favorite shows cause it has a bit of everything. #Art #Dada #absurd #weirdart #assemblage #SurrealArt #popart #collageart #BlueSkyArt
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A little #firesigntheatre #fanart for Martain Space Party I did for the All-Out Monster Revolt magazine a few years ago. Actually 2 1\2 posters. Probably one of my favorite shows cause it has a bit of everything. #Art #Dada #absurd #weirdart #assemblage #SurrealArt #popart #collageart #BlueSkyArt
Happy 88th birthday Firesign Theatre founding member David Ossman!
December 6, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Happy 88th birthday Firesign Theatre founding member David Ossman!
Ey you guys! Just at the age when you're looking for a cheap and exciting way to escape the insane idiots ruining everything? Get over onto Bandcamp where they can't find you!
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firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
The Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre emerged from Radio Free Oz, a Los Angeles underground radio program, in 1966. Over five decades they released over two dozen comedy albums and ten books of plays. Their album "Don...
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Ey you guys! Just at the age when you're looking for a cheap and exciting way to escape the insane idiots ruining everything? Get over onto Bandcamp where they can't find you!
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
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This Saturday from 11am-1pm PT, join host Erik Nelson for a freewheeling chat about the Firesign Theatre featuring author Jeremy Braddock and Firesign founding member Phil Proctor, livestreaming from Santa Cruz's community station KSQD: ksqd.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This Saturday from 11am-1pm PT, join host Erik Nelson for a freewheeling chat about the Firesign Theatre featuring author Jeremy Braddock and Firesign founding member Phil Proctor, livestreaming from Santa Cruz's community station KSQD: ksqd.org
Big and Tough, by The Firesign Theatre
from the album Jack Poet Loves You
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Round like the moon, said the knockwurst. firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/track/story-...
#ShroveTuesday
#ShroveTuesday
Story Lady, by The Firesign Theatre
from the album Jack Poet Loves You
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Round like the moon, said the knockwurst. firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/track/story-...
#ShroveTuesday
#ShroveTuesday
Contest History, by The Firesign Theatre
from the album Jack Poet Loves You
firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com
February 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM