The Firesign Theatre
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Boom Dot Bust, 1999
Item — Box ACC-MSS 004 Box 26: Series ACC-MSS 004-2
Identifier: ACC-MSS 004-2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The series documents popular radio series that were broadcast during the early 1930s through the late 1950s, and the popular forms of stand-up and improvisational comedy of the mid 20th and early 21st centuries. Highlights are recordings of "Our Miss Brooks," in which Eve Arden portrays a sarcastic high school English teacher; recordings by the Monty Python comedy troupe, who made significant contributions to American comedy and popular culture; "The Bickersons," a radio situation comedy...
Dates:
1999
I Think We're all Bozos on This Bus, undated
Item — Box ACC-MSS 004 Box 07: Series US MBE ACC-MSS 004-1
Identifier: US MBE ACC-MSS 004-1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series documents stand-up and improvisational comedy, and humorous music from 1955-1988. In addition to the recordings of individual comics such as Morey Amsterdam, Nan Blackstone, Belle Barth, Shelley Berman, Buddy Hackett, the Smothers Brothers, and Jackie Vernon, the series contains compilations featuring the work of Billy DeWolf, and Jane Foray, and Marty Brill. The voices of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Eugene McCarthy are among the recordings that comprise the political humor...
Dates:
undated
Shoes for Industry! + Best of Firesign Theatre, The (2 discs), 1993
Item — Box ACC-MSS 004 Box 26: Series ACC-MSS 004-2
Identifier: ACC-MSS 004-2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The series documents popular radio series that were broadcast during the early 1930s through the late 1950s, and the popular forms of stand-up and improvisational comedy of the mid 20th and early 21st centuries. Highlights are recordings of "Our Miss Brooks," in which Eve Arden portrays a sarcastic high school English teacher; recordings by the Monty Python comedy troupe, who made significant contributions to American comedy and popular culture; "The Bickersons," a radio situation comedy...
Dates:
1993