# Peter Bergman passes away **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-bergman-passes-away/615299 "2012-03-09T18:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-bergman-passes-away/615299/29 "2012-03-12T03:11:38Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I never was stoned, nor had I even tried pot when I first heard it. People use this as a snarky putdown of anything that goes over their heads. > > The Firesign Theater had a depth of humor that no one has ever matched. You can hear them over and over again and discover something new; just about every line was a joke, and they showed a layer of sophistication that no one under the influence of drugs would even notice. Exactly. They were the very opposite of pot humor. You had to listen, to think, to understand the entirety of popular culture, and to make the associations that they had. You can make analogies is to the Broadway plays written by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind for the Marx Brothers, the Goons, and Monty Python, all of whom similarly included dozens of cultural references and wove gags and general insanity into a shambles of a plot. Nobody ever thought of that as drug humor. Or as I said in this [earlier thread about them](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303480): > [@Recommend me a Firesign Theater album](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-firesign-theater-album/291130/15): > > I still remember the day in college when my roommate and I were listening to Don’t Crush That Dwarf… for the umpteenth time, came to the bit about having “an argument with my co-pilot” and shouted out simultaneously, “God is My Co-Pilot!” Layers under layers. There’s still a need for the Annotated Firesign Theatre. That’s a good thread for a beginner to read, because people talk about what the best albums are and lots of other useful info. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-bergman-passes-away/615299)._