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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy: Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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