The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book
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| Author | The Firesign Theatre |
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| Cover artist | Charles Shields |
| Subject(s) | radio drama, play scripts, sketch comedy |
| Publisher | Straight Arrow Books |
| Released | 1974 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 150 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-87932-078-8 |
| Preceded by | 'The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays' |
| Followed by | 'The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre' |
The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book is a collection of transcriptions and scripts written by The Firesign Theatre for some of the tracks on their first six Columbia albums. The book also contains a long introductory parody chronicling the "history" of The Firesign Theatre from its origins in the renaissance as "The Fyre Sygne Theatre;" through the groups incarnation as "The Fyre Sayle Theatre;" into its "Wild West" incarnation as "Doctor Firesign's Antique Theatre of The Plains and Electic Buffalo Show;" and finally into its 20th century incarnations. Whereas the group's earlier book, The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays, had also included some serious introductory material, this title contains none.
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- Money Song
- An Invocation from the Book of Punter
- The Mysterious History of "The Firesign Theatre"
- The Tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra
- The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye
- Temporarily Humboldt County
- The Adventures of Mark Time
- Hundred Dollar Ben
- Young Guy, Motor Detective
- The Year Of The Rat
- Gramps' World
- Rubbergon Dumn Toyko
- Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde
- The Dream Play (for Monkey, Dreamer, Mudhead and Snake)
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| Performers |
| Phil Austin • Peter Bergman • David Ossman • Philip Proctor |
| Albums |
| Commercial |
| Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him • How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All • Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers • I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus • Dear Friends • Not Insane or Anything You Want To • The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra • Everything You Know Is Wrong • In the Next World, You're on Your Own • Forward into the Past • Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat • Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe • Fighting Clowns • Lawyer's Hospital • Shakespeare's Lost Comedie • The Three Faces of Al • Eat or Be Eaten • Shoes for Industry: The Best of Firesign Theatre • Anythynge You Want To • Back from the Shadows • Pink Hotel Burns Down • Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death • Boom Dot Bust • Bride of Firesign • Radio Now Live! • Papoon For President • All Things Firesign |
| Non-commercial |
| Dear Friends - Syndicated Radio Program • A Firesign Chat with Papoon • Let’s Eat - Syndicated Radio Program • The Proctor-Bergman Report • The Cassette Chronichles |
| Related to Firesign Theatre |
| TV or not TV • How Time Flys • Roller Maidens From Outer Space • What This Country Needs • Give Us A Break • Daily Feed 1988 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Chapter 1: Another Christmas Carol • George Tirebiter's Radiodaze • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.2 Mexican Overdrive / Radiodaze • A Capital Decade Daily Feed 1989 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.3 The Ronald Reagan Murder Case • Down Under Danger • Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies • David Ossman's Time Capsules |
| Bibliography |
| The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays • The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book • The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre • Backwards Into The Future: The Recorded History of the Firesign Theatre |
