Played by a brass band augmented by accordion, fiddle and assorted percussion, the overture for "Let's Eat!," Hal Wilner's tribute to the Firesign Theater, sounded like something one might hear at an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his ...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, civil rights marches, generational revolt, and ...

In dorm rooms across the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, sometimes through a haze of pot smoke, a recording could be heard that sounded like an old-time radio detective show mixed with ...

They say that if you remember the ‘60s you weren’t there. But, like everything else about the Firesign Theatre’s batty world, there are exceptions. Over and over again during “Let’s Eat: Feasting on ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Nick Danger has left the office. "Our dear friend and Firesign Theatre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Firesign Theatre’s first comedy album, “Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him,” was released in 1968, Rolling ...

Between 1967 and 1975, the Firesign Theatre put out nine albums that carved out a new space somewhere between comedy, sound art, literature, and rock and roll. The music critic Robert Christgau called ...

To get your own comedy seen in today’s media landscape, all you have to do is put it online and make sure it’s really good. It wasn’t so easy in the 1960s when all of your major channels, TV, radio, ...

Peter Bergman, founder of the surreal comedy group Firesign Theatre, and the man who coined the term "Love-In," died Friday morning in a Santa Monica hospital. He was 72, and had been suffering from ...

Phil Austin, a co-founder of the influential Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Thursday of complications from cancer at his home on Fox Island in Washington state. He was 74. Austin was dubbed the ...