WHERE'S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?

Phil Proctor, co-founder of the comedy troupe Firesign Theatre, talks about the world, society, comedy, and, most of all, his place in them. He performs his own work, perhaps spending too much time on his childhood. But he gives Firesign fans everything they want to know and more. He wisely includes comedy clips from performances to demonstrate what he is talking about, something more audiobooks about performance artists should do. This work is not perfect--Proctor sometimes switches topics without a pause. Besides the Firesign sound bites, he punctuates the work with sound effects, like police sirens, which can be disconcerting to someone listening in the car. Then again, fans expect such antics from him. M.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2019]