Philosophy
My Fellow Comedists,
This week, we lost another great comic mind. Peter Bergman has gone up to comedy heaven to take his place next to the Cosmic Comic.
Founding member of Firesign Theatre, Bergman was a master of late 60s intellectual surrealist humor -- cross Monty Python with Lord Buckley. At a time when the world was in turmoil following the McCarthyist war on ideas, Firesign Theatre provided an absurdist take on the world around them. They created linguistic dada. Sophisticated, but innocent, gentle, but sharp, it was clever and insightful humor for the smart and hip.
Thank you Peter Bergman for all of your playfulness.
Live, love, and laugh,
Irreverend Steve
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Philosophy
RIP Peter Bergman
My Fellow Comedists,
This week, we lost another great comic mind. Peter Bergman has gone up to comedy heaven to take his place next to the Cosmic Comic.
Founding member of Firesign Theatre, Bergman was a master of late 60s intellectual surrealist humor -- cross Monty Python with Lord Buckley. At a time when the world was in turmoil following the McCarthyist war on ideas, Firesign Theatre provided an absurdist take on the world around them. They created linguistic dada. Sophisticated, but innocent, gentle, but sharp, it was clever and insightful humor for the smart and hip.
Thank you Peter Bergman for all of your playfulness.
Live, love, and laugh,
Irreverend Steve
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What does it mean for one to be a genius? Is genius just the upper end of the really smart continuum? Is there a difference between genius and really, really, really, smart? Is it a difference of kind or degree? Is genius a matter of...
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My Fellow Comedists, This weekend would have been Peter Cook's 75th birthday. One of the leaders of the new radical comedy of the 1950s and 60s in Britain. His first troupe was a four-man outfit that performed under the name "Beyond the Fringe" and...
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One of the world's greatest directors. I am a big folower of Bergman, especially the early introspective years. It is ironic that Bergman was introduced to the world via Kroger Babb's distribution of Summer with Monika [ Kroger Babb and exploitation...