When the Firesign Theatre’s first comedy album, “Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him,” was released in 1968, Rolling Stone rated the Los Angeles-based sketch comedy foursome as “the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If you are a graying Baby Boomer like me, you might remember a comedy troupe from the 1970s called “Firesign Theater.” They had their origin in FM “progressive” radio (KPFK-Los Angeles, 1966). The ...

The Firesign Theatre offered a style of radio programming that has not been seen for a number of years, but nevertheless, it provided the inspiration for many to enter the business in the first place.

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 ...