Firesign Theatre @ 55

The brilliant radio and theater comedy troupe Firesign Theatre released their first album ‘Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him’ 55 years ago, September 9, 1968. Wikipedia

“Electrician revolutionized the concept of the comedy album: it consists of four radio plays. Side one is a trilogy of pieces: starting with "Temporarily Humboldt County", a satire of the Europeans' displacement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; followed by "W. C. Fields Forever", a satire of the 1960s hippie culture; leading into "Trente-Huit Cunegonde (Returned for Regrooving)", a projected future in which the roles of the hippie counterculture and the Establishment culture are reversed. Side two, the title track, is a stream-of-consciousness play about an American tourist (Austin) to an Eastern Bloc country, who ends up in prison and is rescued by the CIA.”

The Beatles of comedy went on to an creative incredible burst of albums, radio programs, and live performances. If you’ve never heard them or haven’t listened for years (or decades) dive in.