Fighting Clowns of Hollywood: With Laffs by The Firesign Theatre - E-book - ePub

David Ossman's memoir of The Firesign Theatre's rapid response to the on-coming Reagan Era recounts the quartet's uneasy transformation from writer-performer-producers of in-studio comic audio masterpieces to theatrical hopefuls and Movieland script-writers. Firesign goes Hollywood with a million $$ MGM movie deal and a string of big stage shows, featuring all-new hot comedy material, performed at the Roxy, premiere rock-club on the Sunset Strip.
Here are Firesign's new sketches from the "Owl & Octopus Show, " all the words to the full-frontal musical revue "Fighting Clowns, " and the one-act play, "Joey's House." Nick Danger, "America's only detective, " re-appears in three confusing episodes and Old Time Radio fans will also dig "The History of the Art of Radio, " and "The American Pageant, " both of which turn American history over in its grave.