Peter Bergman's KPFK radio show gave birth to Firesign Theatre. He also produced political satire for KPCC called “True Confessions of the Real World.” Peter Bergman, founder of the surreal comedy ...

For a generation that came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, listening to Firesign Theatre was a way to laugh at and make some sense of those turbulent times. The surreal satire of the four comics ...

“A mighty hot dog is our lord….” The listener hears this incantation, this sacrilege, a few minutes into the Firesign Theater’s recording titled Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Already, to ...

Fall Comedy Reads: A Look Back at the Firesign TheatreWelcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this [… ...

The four-man ensemble of mirth and surrealism, Firesign Theatre, tells us they are stumped to find anything funny about Presidents Day. They turn to the TV for inspiration and we hear a series of odds ...

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