- Nick Danger (fictional character)
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Nick Danger is a fictional character featured in several of the albums produced by the comedy group The Firesign Theatre: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (1969), Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe (1979), The Three Faces of Al (1984) and The Bride of Firesign (2001).
Voiced by Phil Austin, he is a film noir style "hard-boiled" detective who gets into wacky, mysterious adventures, frequently involving mistaken identity, betrayal, and femme fatales. His arch-nemesis is Police Lt. Bradshaw (voiced by Peter Bergman), and he is also frequently menaced by a slimy little man called Rocky Rococo (voiced by Phil Proctor) who is based on Dashiell Hammett's Joel Cairo from The Maltese Falcon. The love of his life, Betty Jo Bialosky, has numerous aliases, but Nick says "everyone knew her as Nancy."
At the very end of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, a brief snippet from an imagined crime drama is heard, in which we learn that Nick Danger is a former policeman who became disheartened with the corruption in the force and turned in his badge.
The character also features in the Firesign-produced film Nick Danger in The Case of the Missing Yolk [1]
References
The Firesign Theatre Performers Albums CommercialWaiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him · 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 · Dear Friends · Not Insane or Anything You Want To · The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra · Everything You Know Is Wrong · In the Next World, You're on Your Own · Forward into the Past · Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat · Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe · Fighting Clowns · Lawyer's Hospital · Shakespeare's Lost Comedie · The Three Faces of Al · Eat or Be Eaten · Shoes for Industry: The Best of Firesign Theatre · Anythynge You Want To · Back from the Shadows · Pink Hotel Burns Down · Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death · Boom Dot Bust · Bride of Firesign · Radio Now Live! · Papoon For President · All Things FiresignNon-commercialDear Friends - Syndicated Radio Program · A Firesign Chat with Papoon · Let’s Eat - Syndicated Radio Program · The Proctor-Bergman Report · The Cassette ChronichlesRelatedTV or not TV · How Time Flys · Roller Maidens From Outer Space · What This Country Needs · Give Us a Break · Daily Feed 1988 Newsreel - The Daily Feed · The George Tirebiter Story Chapter 1: Another Christmas Carol · George Tirebiter's Radiodaze · The George Tirebiter Story Pt.2 Mexican Overdrive / Radiodaze · A Capital Decade Daily Feed 1989 Newsreel - The Daily Feed · The George Tirebiter Story Pt.3 The Ronald Reagan Murder Case · Down Under Danger · Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies · David Ossman's Time CapsulesBibliography The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays · The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book · The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre · Backwards Into The Future: The Recorded History of the Firesign Theatre
Categories:- Fictional private investigators
- Fictional characters introduced in 1969
- Comedy stubs
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