The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book

Infobox Book
name = "The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book"


author = The Firesign Theatre
cover_artist = Charles Shields
subject = radio drama, play scripts, sketch comedy
publisher = Straight Arrow Books
release_date = 1974
media_type = Paperback
pages = 150
size_weight =
isbn = ISBN 0-87932-078-8
preceded_by = "The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays"
followed_by = "The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre"

"The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book" is a collection of transcriptions and scripts written by The Firesign Theatre for some of the tracks on their first six Columbia albums. The book also contains a long introductory parody chronicling the "history" of The Firesign Theatre from its origins in the renaissance as "The Fyre Sygne Theatre;" through the groups incarnation as "The Fyre Sayle Theatre;" into its "Wild West" incarnation as "Doctor Firesign's Antique Theatre of The Plains and Electic Buffalo Show;" and finally into its 20th century incarnations. Whereas the group's earlier book, "The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays", had also included some serious introductory material, this title contains none.

Table of Contents

#Money Song
#An Invocation from the Book of Punter
#The Mysterious History of "The Firesign Theatre"
#The Tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra
#The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye
#Temporarily Humboldt County
#The Adventures of Mark Time
#Hundred Dollar Ben
#Young Guy, Motor Detective
#The Year Of The Rat
#Gramps' World
#Rubbergon Dumn Toyko
#Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde
#The Dream Play (for Monkey, Dreamer, Mudhead and Snake)