Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Great Classics Of Literature Out Th' Ass Dept. - Firesignage

Today's swell addition to your Isle O' Foam© Library Of Books™ is The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays [left - Ed.], which I'm pretty sure I lifted off the Pirate Bay a while back. It's essential reading for any fan o' th' Firesigns, but gee, is there ever something missing! It stops before Bozos, possibly the most dense (in a good way) of their albums, and the most in need of a clarifying commentary.

But here's the icing on the groatcake - included as a bonus giveaway supplement at no extra cost, you cheap grifter you, is the booklet to the Master Sound CD release of Bozos, written by the Firesigns, which goes a long way to supplying the missing chapter to the book, although it doesn't include a transcript. This I know I got from Ed Fray at notveryprettymusic, because he helpfully watermarked the scans, so big manly hugs of gratitude to Ed! Okay, Ed! Enough with the manly hugs already! Down boy! SECURITY!!

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22 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 17, 2021 at 6:34 AM

    Want this textual thrill pack delivered to your dwelling or workplace ABSOLUTELY FREE of charge? Just a dollar? Simply tell us why the Marx Brothers are the Rosetta Stone, the Holy Grail, and the Dog's Bollocks of comedy.

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  2. festoonicFebruary 17, 2021 at 7:08 AM

    Because once you've done the monkey-doodle-doo you'll never do anything else. Gimme gimme gimme!

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 17, 2021 at 7:19 AM

      Four Or Five Guy© festoonic is currently appearing as Carruthers Cowlick in the Off-Off-Broadway (Pig's Neck, NEB) production of Auntie Maisie's Dilemma.

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  3. Jack Kerouac's CatFebruary 17, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    The Marx Brothers combined musical comedy and slapstick with their particular brand of humor, with gags that were often senseless and simultaneously philosophical.

    In 1937, Salvador Dali pitched a comedy titled “Giraffes on Horseback Salad” to MGM as a vehicle for the Marx Brothers. Dali envisioned the comedians running amok in his surrealist world, the bizarre episodes set to a Cole Porter-esque musical score.

    "Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho." (I am a Marxist of the Groucho variety.)- Jean-Luc Godard

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 17, 2021 at 8:04 AM

      I don't know (or much care) if the "young people of today" (Generation Yawn) find them funny (or actually know what funny is), but their humor is over a hundred freaking years old now and still makes me laugh. A combination of hard-earned professional skills and natural genius. Groucho and Harpo are mythical archetypes, eternal. Chico was necessary as the sorta-straight man, but the otherbrothers were just baggage. Duck Soup is the lightning in a bottle.

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  4. Bombshelter SlimFebruary 17, 2021 at 10:02 AM

    Noted singer/songwriter Richard Marx reunited with his long-dead brother Karl (noted pinko) and almost brother David (noted Beach Boy sub) for a bang-up version of the hit song "Don't Mean Nothing" at the recent Senate impeachment fundraiser. Hats off to these fine citizens, helping out those less fortunate. Next up for this supergroup? The "I'm Nasi Goreng" remix album...

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 17, 2021 at 10:26 AM

      Bombshelter Slim is the inventor of the Slimline Bombshelter, a patented device that folds to pocket size yet expands to provide protection from radioactive fallout for "up to two people". He may be contacted via the Warden at the Adirondack Correctional Facility.

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  5. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM

    "Uh ... Clem."

    (COMMENT CONTAINS STEALTH LINKAGE - CONSULT YOUR PROCTOLOGIST IF IN DOUBT)

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  6. Kwai ChangFebruary 18, 2021 at 12:57 AM

    Because SHE's not the patient...
    AND I'm not the doctor!
    Comedy???
    I thought the Marx Brothers were musicians.
    Tell Dali to set the camera-timer to 90 minutes...
    (this ain't no contractual obligation hyperbole)
    Finally, if Queen had stolen a 3rd album title...it would have been Duck Soup. Unfortunately, it was already the title of a great bootleg.

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  7. Kwai ChangFebruary 18, 2021 at 1:07 AM

    Encycloplydia?
    Recommended reading...
    (thank you, docart420)

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  8. bumppaFebruary 18, 2021 at 2:11 AM

    ED, - ( Mrs. Teasdale's boy?)
    If I hug you any tighter I'll be behind you!

    Hail, Hail Fredonia!

    I shot an elephant in my... you all know and all love it.
    They were and will always be the best.

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  9. FieldhippieFebruary 18, 2021 at 4:11 AM

    Squeeze The Wheeze!

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2021 at 4:26 AM

    For you almost-literates, Four of the Three Musketeers by R. Bader is a must-to-read (what else you got going during lockdown)?

    --Muzak McMusics

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    1. Jack Kerouac's CatFebruary 18, 2021 at 7:09 AM

      The definitive document of their early years on stage.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 18, 2021 at 8:02 AM

      If anyone has a mobi/epub they could loadup ...

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  11. Konrad UseoFebruary 18, 2021 at 7:20 AM

    Very nice blog you got here, m8. I like the Marx Bros because they don't believe in the sanity clause, either.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 18, 2021 at 8:02 AM

      Likewise I'm sure, Konrad! (Although that's FT3 to you, not m8)

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  12. HDFebruary 18, 2021 at 9:12 AM

    Back in a long time ago, Decca (!) records put out a vinyl with Gary Owens (!) adding unnecessary and stupid narration amongst short clips from various films of the Marx Bros. At some point I acquired a copy of it in electronic format and spent way too much time removing the pointless additions, leaving 22 minutes of disconnected and context-free wonderfulness. It sounds a little something like this: *

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIFebruary 18, 2021 at 11:36 AM

      Listening to this as we speak - thank you!

      "A code and two pair of plans - haw haw! Some joke, huh?"

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    2. UncleBFebruary 20, 2021 at 9:54 AM

      IF they are the same ones I am thinking of, they also did a W.C. Fields and maybe more...

      Go away kid, ya bother me.

      https://img.discogs.com/K_8Wu-FHhFNspdMAAahsdhXtAOo=/fit-in/600x302/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1651572-1461642390-3019.jpeg.jpg

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    3. UncleBFebruary 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM

      One more:

      Mae West – The Original Voice Tracks From Her Greatest Movies
      Label: Decca DL 79176
      Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
      Country: US
      Released: 1970

      Come up & see me some time...

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    4. Hazy DaveFebruary 20, 2021 at 11:10 AM

      Yep, that's the stuff. Minus the late 60s showbiz additions to the "Original Voice Tracks", it's exceptionally listenable, in my estimation.

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