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Working in radio in the 1960s, they started releasing albums in 1968, debuting with ''Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him'' and followed in successive years by ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?''; ''Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers'', ''I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus'' and others. Their comedy was based around improvisation and surrealism, with a touch of social commentary buried deep below the surface. Many of their longer pieces seem to be set in a bizarre and somewhat darker [[Alternate Universe]] that still somehow manages to bear a direct relevance to our own.
They also made at least two movies, one a film version of ''Nick Danger: Third Eye'' and ''[[J-Men Forever!]]''.
Their popularity peaked in the early 1970s and ebbed in the Reagan Era. They experienced a revival and second wave of popularity in the 1990s and continued to write, record and perform until Bergman's death in 2012.
In 1997, ''Entertainment Weekly'' ranked the Firesign Theatre among the "Thirty Greatest Comedy Acts of All Time". Their 1970 album ''Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers'' was nominated in 1971 for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Dramatic Presentation by the World Science Fiction Society, and their next album ''I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus'' received the same nomination in 1972. Later, they received nominations for the [[Grammy Award]] for Best Comedy Album for three of their albums: ''The Three Faces of Al'' (1984), ''Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death'' (1998), and ''Bride of Firesign'' (2001). In 2005, the US Library of Congress added ''Don't Crush That Dwarf'' to the National Recording Registry and called the group "the Beatles of comedy."
You can learn more about them at [http://www.firesigntheatre.com/ their Web site].
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