User:JustinTime55/sandbox/List of Firesign Theatre characters
This is a list of notable recurring characters portrayed by members of the Firesign Theatre (Peter Bergman, Philip Proctor, Phil Austin, and David Ossman). They are presented in chronological order of album introduction; album (non-compilation) recurrences are also listed.
Ralph Spoilsport[edit]
Portrayed by Philip Proctor. A used-car dealer, parody of southern California's Ralph Williams, first appears in How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All. Subsequently appears in the Millennium trilogy Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, Boom Dot Bust, and Bride of Firesign.
Nick Danger[edit]
Portrayed by Phil Austin. A hardboiled detective, parody of the film noir genre. First appears in How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, side B, The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, "Cut 'Em Off at the Past".
Rocky Rococo[edit]
Portrayed by Philip Proctor. Nick Danger's criminal nemesis, patterned after Peter Lorre's portrayal of the Dashiell Hammett character Joel Cairo in the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon. Described as a "little man", pictured in the liner notes portrayed by Peter Bergman, creating the image of a bald man with a moustache and wearing a fez. In subsequent live shows, Proctor wears a red Shriner's fez.
Police Lieutenant Alvin Bradshaw[edit]
Portrayed by Peter Bergman; first appears in "Cut 'Em Off at the Past".
George Leroy Tirebiter[edit]
Portrayed by David Ossman. || Henry Aldrich parody || Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
Principal Poop[edit]
Portrayed by Proctor; principal of Morse Science High School || First appeared in Don't Crush That Dwarf...
Caroline Presskey[edit]
Portrayed by Philip Proctor.
George Papoon[edit]
Portrayed by ??? 1972 Presidential candidate of the "Natural Surrealist Party". First appeared in Martian Space Party and Not Insane or Anything You Want To.
Mark Time[edit]
Portrayed by David Ossman. An astronaut who first appears in I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus on the Future Fair Funway recruiting a crew for his trip to "the haunted space station". Second appearance is in a parody Flash Gordon serial on the Dear Friends radio show. Third appearance was to be added to the filmed radio play Martian Space Party as returning from a trip to Planet X for the album Not Insane or Anything You Want To; but this was cut and later used as the plot premise for the 1973 Ossman solo album How Time Flys.
Harold Hiphugger[edit]
Portrayed by David Ossman. First appearance on Everything You Know Is Wrong as a television news reporter partnered with Ray Hamberger on the Channel 6 "Where It's At" news team. Appeared on Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death with Hamberger as Radio Now news reporters; also appeared in the show Radio Now Live.
Ray Hamberger[edit]
Portrayed by Philip Proctor. First appearance on Everything You Know Is Wrong as a television news reporter partnered with Harold Hiphugger on the Channel 6 "Where It's At" news team. Appeared on Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death with Hiphugger as Radio Now news reporters; also appeared in the show Radio Now Live.
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Bibliography[edit]
- Chapman, Graham, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus, volume 1, Pantheon Books, 1989 ISBN 9780679726470.