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...Cosmic Comics Re "Lumps in the Cosmos" [Jan. 21]: as a member of the comedy group Firesign Theatre, along with Phil Austin, Peter Bergman and David Ossman, I would like to point out that we first espoused the "cosmic lump theory" back in 1971 with our album I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus. During a simulated ride, "Up Against the Wall of Science," at the holographic Future Fair, the narrator says, "For some reason, for some time in the beginning, there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These...
Everything else from the '60s has come back; why not the Firesign Theatre, which took recorded comedy as close to the edge of sanity as it could go, in albums like I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus? The group--Peter Bergman, Phil Proctor, David Ossman and Phil Austin--is back with a new CD, and it's both a nostalgia trip and a bracing return to the edge: a dense, doomy, free-association riff on the last broadcast day of the millennium, featuring commercials, traffic reports, Joe Camel's last press conference, the Ebola Virus Ball...
Midnight at the Welles features two baddies. Pink Flamingos is stupid, trashy, and disgusting. You'd be better off staying home and watching the radio than seeing this. Zachariah, campy version of the cowboy movie, features Josh Rubenstein (son of Arthur), Country Joe and the Fish and the Firesign Theater. Cute, but not very. Boring...
...Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
...four or five crazy guys" who arranged this record are wags, activists, and any picky Harvard lame-brain who's worth his salt will go batty hunting puns. More than any other Firesign Theatre album, the Rat bristles like a hedgehog with mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and plays on words. Its running gag on cocaine is especially amusing. In short, The Giant Rat is diverting, if facile...