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191 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, A Bug's Life, A Firesign Chat with Papoon, Albany, Georgia, Album, AM broadcasting, Americathon, Andes, Andy Warhol, Anythynge You Want To, Apple Inc., Aries (astrology), Artemis Records, Ash Grove (music club), Astrological sign, Astrology, Astrology and the classical elements, Austin Pendleton, Bad Hair Day, BBC, Black comedy, Boom Dot Bust, Bootleg recording, Bud Yorkin, Buffalo Springfield, CBS, Chevy Chase, Classic rock, Columbia Records, Columbia University, Conan the Barbarian (1982 film), Conan the Barbarian (comics), David Ossman, Dear Friends (Firesign Theatre album), Dear Friends (radio program), Death and the Compass, Development hell, Dolby noise-reduction system, Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, Easter egg (media), Eat or Be Eaten (album), Elvis Presley, Entertainment Weekly, Epic Records, Everything You Know Is Wrong, Extended play, Falsetto, Femme fatale, Fighting Clowns, FM broadcasting, ..., Folk club, Forward Into the Past, Gary Usher, George Carlin, George Hamilton (actor), Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, Give Us a Break (Proctor and Bergman album), Golden Age of Radio, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Hardboiled, Harry Secombe, Harry Shearer, Hermann Hesse, Hieronymus Bosch, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, How Time Flys, I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus, Improvisational theatre, In the Next World, You're on Your Own, Intellivision, Intellivoice, Internet, Ivan Stang, J-Men Forever, John Goodman, John Lennon, John Wilkes Booth, Jorge Luis Borges, Just Folks... A Firesign Chat, KMET (FM), Korean War, KPFK, KPPC (defunct), KRDC (AM), KTYD, Lawyer's Hospital, Lead guitar, Leo (astrology), Lew Irwin, Library of Congress, Lip sync, Love-in, LP record, Mad (magazine), Madison, Wisconsin, Mattel, Mercury Records, Michael C. Gwynne, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Multitrack recording, Myst, National Recording Registry, New Age, New Line Cinema, Nick Danger, Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe, Night Flight (TV series), Non sequitur (literary device), Norman Lear, Not Insane or Anything You Want To, NPR, Parody, Parroty Interactive, PBS, Peter Bergman (comedian), Peter Lorre, Peter Sellers, Phil Austin, Philip Proctor, Pixar, Proctor and Bergman, Pyst, Radio drama, Radio Now Live, Radio producer, Reagan Era, Republic Pictures, Rhino Entertainment, Richard Nixon, Richard Paul (actor), Robert F. Kennedy, Robin Williams, Rocky Rococo (pizza chain), Roller Maidens from Outer Space, Rolling Stone, Sagittarius (astrology), Sagittarius (band), San Francisco, Seeland Records, Self-parody, Sherlock Holmes, Shout! Factory, Siddhartha (novel), Single (music), Siri, Sketch comedy, Sony Music, Sound effect, Spike Milligan, Spy vs. Spy, Stanford University, Steve Jobs, Straight Arrow Press, Sunset Strip curfew riots, Surreal humour, Talk radio, Tandem Productions, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Credibility Gap, The Edge of Night, The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays, The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger, The Goon Show, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The Jack Benny Program, The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, The Three Faces of Al, The Tick (1994 TV series), The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), Topeka, Kansas, Tunnel Vision (1976 film), TV or Not TV, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, United States presidential election, 1992, USA Network, VHS, Virtual assistant, W. C. Fields, Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him, Western (genre), What This Country Needs (Proctor and Bergman album), William Shakespeare, Wolfman Jack, Word play, Yale Dramatic Association, Yale University, Year 2000 problem, Zachariah (film), Zeitgeist, 70 mm film. Expand index (141 more) »
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, film/record producer, satirist, and author.
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A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
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A Firesign Chat with Papoon
A Firesign Chat with Papoon is a promo album recorded by Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman and released under the name of The Firesign Theatre on Columbia Records.
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Albany, Georgia
Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.
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AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.
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Americathon
Americathon (also known as Americathon 1998) is a 1979 American comedy film starring John Ritter, Fred Willard, Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, and Nancy Morgan, with narration by George Carlin, based on a play by Firesign Theatre alumni Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman.
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Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
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Anythynge You Want To
Anythynge You Want To is an uncut 2001 CD re-release in of the 1982 edited form comedy LP album Shakespeare's Lost Comedie by The Firesign Theatre.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
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Aries (astrology)
Aries (♈) (meaning "ram") is the first astrological sign in the zodiac, spanning the first 30 degrees of celestial longitude (0°≤.
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Artemis Records
Artemis Records was a New York-based independent record label, founded in July 1999 by Danny Goldberg with Daniel Glass as President, and closed in April 2006.
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Ash Grove (music club)
The Ash Grove was a folk music club located at 8162 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, founded in 1958 by Ed Pearl and named after the Welsh folk song, "The Ash Grove." In its short fifteen years, the Ash Grove forever altered the music scene in Los Angeles and helped many artists find a West Coast audience.
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Astrological sign
In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries.
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Astrology
Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects as a means for divining information about human affairs and terrestrial events.
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Astrology and the classical elements
Astrology has used the concept of classical elements from antiquity up until the present.
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Austin Pendleton
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.
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Bad Hair Day
Bad Hair Day is the ninth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on March 12, 1996.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Black comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
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Boom Dot Bust
Boom Dot Bust is a comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre and released in 1999 on Rhino Records.
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Bootleg recording
A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.
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Bud Yorkin
Alan David "Bud" Yorkin (February 22, 1926 – August 18, 2015) was an American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.
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Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American rock band active from 1966 to 1968 whose most prominent members were Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay.
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and writer.
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Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American fantasy adventure film directed and co-written by John Milius.
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Conan the Barbarian (comics)
Conan the Barbarian was a comics title starring the sword-and-sorcery character created by Robert E. Howard, published by the American company Marvel Comics.
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David Ossman
David Ossman (born December 6, 1936 in Santa Monica, California) is an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre and screenwriter of such films as Zachariah.
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Dear Friends (Firesign Theatre album)
Dear Friends is The Firesign Theatre's fifth album to be released on Columbia Records.
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Dear Friends (radio program)
Between September 16, 1970 and February 17, 1971, The Firesign Theatre performed 21 episodes of a live radio program titled Dear Friends on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.
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Death and the Compass
"Death and the Compass" (original Spanish title: "La muerte y la brújula") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986).
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Development hell
Development hell or development limbo is media industry jargon for a project that remains in development (often moving between different crews, scripts, or studios) without progressing to completion.
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Dolby noise-reduction system
A Dolby noise-reduction system, or Dolby NR, is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog magnetic tape recording.
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Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is The Firesign Theatre's third comedy recording for Columbia Records, released in July 1970.
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Easter egg (media)
In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work.
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Eat or Be Eaten (album)
Eat or Be Eaten is the seventeenth comedy album by The Firesign Theatre, released on Mercury Records in 1985.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.
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Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Everything You Know Is Wrong
Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre.
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Extended play
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.
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Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
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Femme fatale
A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, is a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.
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Fighting Clowns
Fighting Clowns is a 1980 album by The Firesign Theatre.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.
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Folk club
A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music.
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Forward Into the Past
Forward Into The Past is a 1976 compilation album by The Firesign Theatre.
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Gary Usher
Gary Usher (December 14, 1938 – May 25, 1990) was an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer.
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George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic.
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George Hamilton (actor)
George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor.
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Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death is a comedy album by The Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records.
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Give Us a Break (Proctor and Bergman album)
Give Us A Break is a 1978 comedy album by comedy duo Proctor and Bergman, one half of the Firesign Theatre.
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Golden Age of Radio
The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.
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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement in comedy." The award was awarded yearly from 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day.
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Hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).
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Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer.
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Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; 1450 – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish draughtsman and painter from Brabant.
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How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All is the second comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre.
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How Time Flys
How Time Flys is a comedy album written by David Ossman and featuring the voice talents of all four members of The Firesign Theatre plus several other contributors.
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I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy recording made by the Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.
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Improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.
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In the Next World, You're on Your Own
In the Next World, You're on Your Own was the last comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records.
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Intellivision
The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979.
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Intellivoice
The Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module was an adapter for the Intellivision, Mattel's home video game console, that utilized a voice synthesizer to generate audible speech.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Ivan Stang
Ivan Stang (born Douglass St. Clair Smith, August 21, 1953) is an American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius.
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J-Men Forever
J-Men Forever, originally titled "The Secret World War", is a 1979 comedy film by Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theatre.
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John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor and comedian.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
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John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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Just Folks... A Firesign Chat
Just Folks.
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KMET (FM)
KMET was a Los Angeles FM radio station owned by Metromedia (hence the "MET" in its call sign) that broadcast at 94.7 MHz, beginning in June 1968.
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Korean War
The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).
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KPFK
KPFK (90.7 FM) is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves Southern California, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet.
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KPPC (defunct)
KPPC-FM was a Pasadena, California FM radio station best known during the period 1967–1971, when it was one of the leading "underground" radio stations in the United States, presenting a freeform mixture of experimental and historical music with countercultural ideas.
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KRDC (AM)
KRDC (1110 AM) is a family-targeted country-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.
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KTYD
KTYD (99.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Santa Barbara, California and broadcasting to Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
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Lawyer's Hospital
Lawyer's Hospital is the fourteenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre.
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Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.
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Leo (astrology)
Leo (♌) (Greek: Λέων, Leōn), is the fifth astrological sign of the zodiac, originating from the constellation of Leo.
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Lew Irwin
Lew Irwin has been a Los Angeles-based journalist for more than 50 years.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lip sync
Lip sync (short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with prerecorded sung or spoken vocals that listeners hear, either through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema speakers, or generally anything with audio output in other cases.
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Love-in
A love-in is a peaceful public gathering focused on meditation, love, music, sex and/or use of psychedelic drugs.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.
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Mad (magazine)
Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.
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Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.
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Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Michael C. Gwynne
Michael C. Gwynne (born October 1, 1942) is a film, television and radio actor.
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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a record label specializing in the production of audiophile recordings.
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Multitrack recording
Multitrack recording (MTR)—also known as multitracking, double tracking, or tracking—is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.
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Myst
Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle video game designed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller.
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National Recording Registry
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.
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New Age
New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.
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New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema is an American film production studio a part of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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Nick Danger
Nick Danger is a fictional character created by the comedy group The Firesign Theatre, portrayed by Phil Austin.
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Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe
Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe is an EP by The Firesign Theatre.
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Night Flight (TV series)
Night Flight is an online visual-arts magazine and variety television show that originated on cable TV network USA Network.
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Non sequitur (literary device)
A non-sequitur ("it does not follow") is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes.
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Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude.
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Not Insane or Anything You Want To
Not Insane or Anything You Want To is the sixth album released by The Firesign Theatre on Columbia Records.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Parody
A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
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Parroty Interactive
Parroty Interactive was an American video game developer based Larkspur, California, which acted as a division of publisher Palladium Interactive, Inc.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peter Bergman (comedian)
Peter Paul Bergman (November 29, 1939 – March 9, 2012) was an American writer and comedian, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre.
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Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor.
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.
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Phil Austin
Philip Baine Austin (April 6, 1941 – June 18, 2015) was a comedian and writer, best known as a member of The Firesign Theatre.
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Philip Proctor
Philip Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor, voice actor and a member of The Firesign Theatre.
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar, is an American computer animation movie studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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Proctor and Bergman
Proctor and Bergman are the comedians Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman, two of the four members of The Firesign Theatre.
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Pyst
Pyst (stylised as PYST) is an adventure computer game published in October 1996.
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Radio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.
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Radio Now Live
Radio Now Live is a 2001 comedy album by The Firesign Theatre (Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor), recorded from a live performance on a 1999 West Coast tour.
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Radio producer
A radio producer oversees the making of a radio show.
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Reagan Era
The Reagan Era or Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact.
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Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California.
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Rhino Entertainment
Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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Richard Paul (actor)
Richard Paul (June 6, 1940 – December 25, 1998) was an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.
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Rocky Rococo (pizza chain)
Rocky Rococo Pizza and Pasta is a chain of North American restaurants that specializes in pan-style pizza sold by the slice.
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Roller Maidens from Outer Space
Roller Maidens From Outer Space is a 1974 comedy album by Phil Austin, one of the members of the comedy group Firesign Theatre.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Sagittarius (astrology)
Sagittarius (♐) (Greek: Τοξότης Toxotes, Latin: Sagittarius) is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Sagittarius and spans 240–270th degrees of the zodiac.
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Sagittarius (band)
Sagittarius was an American sunshine pop studio group formed in the late-1960s and, devised by the record producer and songwriter, Gary Usher.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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Seeland Records
Seeland Records is an independent record label created by Negativland in 1979 to release their own recordings.
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Self-parody
A self-parody is a parody of oneself or one's own work.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.
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Siddhartha (novel)
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.
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Single (music)
In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.
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Siri
Siri (pronounced) is a virtual assistant part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS operating systems.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.
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Sound effect
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.
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Spy vs. Spy
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate.
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Straight Arrow Press
Straight Arrow Press (Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc.) was a publishing company that published the periodical Rolling Stone.
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Sunset Strip curfew riots
The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California in 1966.
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Surreal humour
Surreal humour (also known as absurdist humour), or surreal comedy, is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.
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Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.
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Tandem Productions
Tandem Productions, Inc. (a.k.a. Tandem Enterprises, Inc.) was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by television director Bud Yorkin and television writer/producer Norman Lear.
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The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
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The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.
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The Credibility Gap
The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team active from 1968 through 1979.
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The Edge of Night
The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble.
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The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays
The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays is a collection of transcriptions written by The Firesign Theatre for the title tracks of each of their first four albums.
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The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger
The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook is a four-CD boxed set of most recorded material by comedy group The Firesign Theatre containing their fictional character Nick Danger, portrayed by Phil Austin.
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The Goon Show
The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.
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The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.
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The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the seventh comedy album released by The Firesign Theatre and released in January 1974 by Columbia Records.
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The Three Faces of Al
The Three Faces of Al is a 1984 comedy album by the group Firesign Theatre.
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The Tick (1994 TV series)
The Tick: The Animated Series is an American animated television series adaptation of the New England Comics satirical superhero The Tick.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Topeka, Kansas
Topeka (Kansa: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County.
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Tunnel Vision (1976 film)
TunnelVision (also known as Tunnel Vision) is a satirical 1976 comedy anthology film featuring Roger Bowen, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Laraine Newman, Betty Thomas, Phil Proctor, Al Franken, Ron Silver, Tom Davis, and Michael Overly, with appearances by noted voiceover artists Ernie Anderson and Danny Dark.
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TV or Not TV
TV or Not TV is the first album by the comedy duo Proctor and Bergman.
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following federal judicial districts.
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United States presidential election, 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election.
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USA Network
USA Network (commonly referred to as simply USA stylized as usa network since 2005) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast.
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VHS
The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.
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Virtual assistant
A virtual assistant is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual.
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W. C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.
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Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him is the first comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.
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What This Country Needs (Proctor and Bergman album)
What This Country Needs is the second comedy album by the duo Proctor and Bergman of the Firesign Theatre.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Wolfman Jack
Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995), was an American disc jockey.
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Word play
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
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Yale Dramatic Association
The Yale Dramatic Association, also known as the "Yale Dramat," is the second oldest college theater company in the United States, and the oldest continuously producing one.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Year 2000 problem
The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K, is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000.
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Zachariah (film)
Zachariah is a 1971 American Western film directed by George Englund and written by Joe Massot and the four members of the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre (Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor).
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Zeitgeist
The Zeitgeist is a concept from 18th to 19th-century German philosophy, translated as "spirit of the age" or "spirit of the times".
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70 mm film
70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for motion picture photography, with higher resolution than the standard 35 mm motion picture film format.
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References
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