The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book

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The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book
Author The Firesign Theatre
Cover artist Charles Shields
Subject(s) radio drama, play scripts, sketch comedy
Publisher Straight Arrow Books
Publication date 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.

[edit] Table of Contents

  1. Money Song
  2. An Invocation from the Book of Punter
  3. The Mysterious History of "The Firesign Theatre"
  4. The Tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra
  5. The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye
  6. Temporarily Humboldt County
  7. The Adventures of Mark Time
  8. Hundred Dollar Ben
  9. Young Guy, Motor Detective
  10. The Year Of The Rat
  11. Gramps' World
  12. Rubbergon Dumn Toyko
  13. Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde
  14. The Dream Play (for Monkey, Dreamer, Mudhead and Snake)
v • d • e
The Firesign Theatre
Performers
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
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