Dope Humor of the Seventies

Dope Humor of the Seventies is a compilation album by the Firesign Theatre, released by Stand Up!

A sequel to the Dear Friends album, it consists of short, highly improvisational sketches distilled from the 80-hour archive set Duke of Madness Motors, originally recorded from 1970 to 1972 as part of the group's nationally syndicated Dear Friends radio show.

[1][2][3] The album was released on vinyl and digital formats,[4] and includes liner notes with an archive of handwritten scripts and other material from the era.

[5][6] Firesign member David Ossman called Dope Humor a sort of "dark side" to the Dear Friends album, since both were compiled from the same source, but the sketches on Dope Humor had not been constrained by the desire to keep the material radio-friendly, as had been the case for Dear Friends.

[8] Rich Kimball of Bangor, Maine radio station WZON said the album was full of "lost gems" that still seemed resonant: "So much of it holds up ...