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I picked up four Firesign albums awhile back when I was doing a bunch of four hour drives every week. It was a wonderful throwback for me. The radio stations I listened to DID play them, and flipping the radio on straight into one of the scenes could be hugely disorienting.
While I loved the jokes, loved the really smart way they layered stuff - sounds, lines, jokes - I did feel like it's starting to get that fine patina of age.
I heard a great show on PBS with John Lithgow. His first job after finishing drama school in England was on public radio in New York, and he was part of a small group that pretty much ripped off the Firesign Theater style and quirks, but with his own fresh, weird humor underneath.