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By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

“The Beatles Of Comedy” found in Department of Redundancy Department

March 29, 2026

It’s been a while since Dan Grobstein has appeared here[1], but he has returned  with a fantastic heads up, for Fireheads such as myself and many of you. Not Insane! by Andrew Katzenstein, described by the New York Review as about “The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.” Well, yes. Myself included.


[1] 380 times from 2005-2013, so often he had his own heading, Dan Grobstein File

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It is seldom acknowledged that Firesign Theatre was largely a ripoff of the Goon Show in which Spike Milligan and Nelly Seigum played themselves and Peter Sellers created dozens of voices including most of those featured in FST. Seek out Six Charlie’s In Search of an Author. High hilarity.

Posted by: CLARK SMITHMarch 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Well, as Phil Proctor once told me, "We don't like to use the P word. We think of it as paying homage to those who went before us."

Posted by: Paul SchindlerMarch 30, 2026 at 11:11 AM

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