Wait WHAAAAAT? No thread for Scharpling and Wurster?

theres been tons of talk on other threads. i was a reg caller for a bit and dr morbs hates tom.

It's kind of weird how semi-ubiquitous The Best Show has become in the last couple of months. Well, maybe not that weird, since (as you say) more famous people are becoming vocal fans. Of course, if that new-found fame leads to more of the turd callers that have been a staple of the last couple of weeks, I can imagine that the quality and/or existence of the show might be in jeopardy.

I just recently started listening again over the last couple of months and was amazed at how entertaining the show itself had become since I'd last listened. As Tom has said himself, the Wurster calls are the centerpiece of the show, and they used to be pretty much the only thing that kept me listening most nights. But Tom has really hit his stride as an entertaining and funny DJ and he keeps me involved for the full three-hour stretch most nights. No small feat.

But, yeah. A good portion of the Scharpling/Wurster calls fall in my all-time comedy top five, and Wurster is definitely one of my favorite comedy performers.

xpost What doesn't Dr. Morbs hate?

Anyone have a copy of "Unreleased vol 1 and 2" that was referenced on another thread?

i dunno i have a bunch of fan made comps. all the tmmy von trimble any human needs to hear.

"You're a two-inch RACIST!" "Aw, c'mon!"

I'm definitely WAY late to the party, but I'm loving it nonetheless. Some of the best parts are the obnoxious bits of indie-guy chit-chat before the "real" comedy begins. Kid eBay takes this to the extreme, and the Music Scholar bit just killed me.

Seek out "Giles Palermo, Record Collector" for more rock-snob laughs.

i love bryce

xpost (Which is a Scharpling/Earles skit, by the way. For the sake of clarification.)

So, is Tom really going to pull the plug on the show or is this another Sirius radio/podcast stunt?

hey, I don't HATE Tom. I just don't really get it.

I like 7 Second Delay!

I like both. But really I like Philly Boy Roy.

I like the one with the guy who saw the Beatles and who listened to air mixes and who hears the true voice of punk in Fred Durst.

"Seek out "Giles Palermo, Record Collector" for more rock-snob laughs."

Is this the guy who tries to pass off Ray Parker Jr as Captain Beefheart?

Yes. I heard it yesterday. Earles doesn't quite have the same comedic quickness as Wurster, but it's still funny.

wait... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

hey guys the repeat podcast from this week you can hear ME call in and talk about the bathrooms at the Madonna Inn with tom then tom asks me to stay with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMYvr2wfVU

philly boy roy vs patton oswalt!

scharpling kinda going off on twitter right now w/r/t kickstarter.

http://i.imgur.com/L21J0.jpg

this is the longest I've listened to TS in awhile. His comparing Eli Manning to Richie Cunningham's brother was pretty good.

Genius

I spent about five minutes now just staring at that photo of Vance, it's somehow just amazing to me

in return, I give you this:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/skeevy_getsomeass.jpg

^ that's John Hodgman, goofy on Four Loko, falling away from the mike lest his corpsing tread on the harsh hilarireality of AP Mike's handpuppet Skeevy advising Wally Wackiman over the phone to "GET SOME ASS, MAN!"

With that mustache and bow tie, Skeevy looks a lot higher class than I'd imagined.

As a side note, Marky Ramone and his food truck was there. It was the real Marky Ramone and not Jon Wurster.

lol

Have we posted about Tom & Jon doing the new Aimee Mann vid, wherein they get Ted Leo and Jon Hamm to re-shoot "Voices Carry" shot-for-shot for her new single?

three bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To (in 480p)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM (in 1080p, even!)

I got to meet Wurster on Wednesday drumming at the Bob Mould show in Portland

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/150298_10151047734196596_2072051379_n.jpg

awesome x 1000

Jealous, kingfish! Although I just remembered that I used to engage in goofy correspondence with Wurster on Friendster eight million years ago, so don't mind me if I get a little swagger in my step.

Man, every time I start making serious strides in my age-old crusade to assemble the Ultimate S&W Collection, something goes wrong. Now Soundbooth has stopped working on my computer. I believe I have all the clips through early '10 now, though, and that feels pretty solid. Like a life well-lived.

cert we have all committed a Til Tuesday video to memory

#nostalgiaaintwhatitusedtobe

this isn't s&w related actually but the lyric to "labrador" is fucking devastating

Agreed. But you forgot to make mention of how cool I am for talking to JW on Friendster, aero. And how totally jealous you are.

Ahh, perspective.

(Aero is his supervisor at Consolidated Cardboard, Lunch.)

Yeah, I know he's secretly Old Man Dalrymple posting under a pseudonym. Maybe it's not as cool when you're just bossing him around all day.

I have just discovered and am gorging myself on Best Show. I seem to be alone in this but I prefer Gary the Squirrel to Vance--the prog jokes get old for me after awhile. I don't "get" the Philly Boy Roy accent, although it gives me fits of laughter constantly. Is that a Philadelphia accent he's doing?

"Labrador" is a good song in fact.

never knew Wurster was in The Right Profile, I saw that band.

the smallest brag: scharpling made a video for a song from the new ben gibbard album. in the very last shot of the video, you can see, prominently displayed, an album that i played on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ocplIH7I4

the video is kind of a rip of the video for "sugarcube" by yo la tengo though

not as much as the Ted Leo video Scharpling did (and that was hilairs so)

I could be way off here, but I've always been under the impression that Tom had some degree of creative input on the "Sugarcube" video (friends with the band, shades of the 'rock school' script he was working on w/Wurster before School Of Rock became a thing, stylistically very Scharplingandwursteresque).

Apparently it was announced within the last quarter of an hour that the final Best Show will be on December 13.

uh oh. why's he quitting now?

yeah he's announced it was ending a few times over the years but almost always it was apparent it was a joke. this seems for real judging from evan funk davies tweets.

lots of famous-ish people connected with the show are tweeting about it being the end, seems somewhat legit. disappointing if true.

#BestShowForLife is the hashtag to look for.

:(

man a lot of my fave wfmu shows have ended over the years but by and large they were at least semi replaced by something else that came along. ain't nothing gonna replace best show.

Woah!

http://pitchfork.com/news/57102-numero-group-to-release-tom-scharpling-and-jon-wursters-the-best-of-the-best-show-box-set/

A thing:

https://twitter.com/jonwurster/status/529321838606708737

Wait WHAAAAAAAAT?

And here it is

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/the-newbridge-tourism-board-presents-were-newbridge-were-comin-to-get-ya/

I'm excited that a Newbridge TV project finally happened, but I kinda hope it's a one-off. It was definitely one for the fans.

I programmed the DVR to start recording five minutes early and when I watched it this morning I wasn't initially sure whether it was actually starting early, since the show was preceded by a commercial for something called Dump Dinners and starring a woman who'd appeared on Tim & Eric but it's apparently actually a thing.

oh man, I am so tempted to buy that box set.

https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/c/c6/The_Marge-ian_Chronicles_promo_1.png

S&W appearing on the March 13 episode of The Simpsons.

saw the live show in durham, nc last week. lotsa fun!

entire original lineup of Superchunk came out at the end to do "Slack Motherfucker" with Philly Boy Roy

is this gonna be scripted in a way where the average viewer is supposed to know who they hell they are, because that seems... not realistic?

I was at the Durham show too. The Superchunk finale was fantastic, as was Roy referring to Tom as "The Creature From the Black Fred Perry Shirt".

I have to sheepishly admit that, despite living here for 2.5 years now, the only local reference I caught was Shooters II.

xpost Tim and Eric voiced random foodies for their unsurprisingly mediocre episode, so I imagine S&W will likewise be voicing random characters that won't presuppose foreknowledge of their work or inspire the uninitiated to look into them further. Despite my deep cynicism towards late-period Simpsons, I'm super excited for the dudes. I really want them to get paying gigs that play to their talents!

Yeah, I learned just after posting the news that S&W are not playing themselves (though their characters are made up to look like them). I'll watch cause I'm a fan (of S&W, not of late-period Simpsons), and because there is no way that it could be worse than the episode that Werner Herzog did (right...?).

Their nametags read "Barry" and "Paul" in the promo image, and Barry is drawn to look like Wurster, not Dworkin. This was probably a good reason to assume they weren't playing themselves.

oh hey, nobody mentioned on this thread that the Best Show is back, and since someone asked Tom "Do you miss it?" recently and it spiralled him into a bit of a depression (although he remains funny), anybody who hasn't already needs to go to thebestshow.net.

As far as latter day Simpsons that I have seen go, that was pretty painless. I'm hoping that the bit that they did at the end wasn't written by them, though--it sounded sorta S&W-esque, but without being funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1s_fqBXTM

Scharpling should go back to WFMU, it's a pain in the ass trying to listen to his independent radio show.

Will you pay him a living wage out of your own pocket so he can?

Sure. Here you go.

You should probably call Tom on Tuesday and let him know your feelings on the matter.

lol

How is it a pain in the ass? Just subscribe to the podcast, nerdlinger.

such a pain in the ass. A dedicated website with links to the live stream and archives! A podcast! Unpossible!

Tom has announced that he is NOT ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN on Tuesday's show. It's going to be one for the ages, I think.

ha, Chaki just dialed in and is talking now.

very closed to a GOMP for that potty mouth.

and.. he gone.

such a pain in the ass. A dedicated website with links to the live stream and archives! A podcast! Unpossible!

Tom has announced that he is NOT ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN on Tuesday's show. It's going to be one for the ages, I think.

The callers on this were amazing. The TomPressions ones not as God so far

as good

I was supposed to call in today, after bringing Dudio another smoked meat sandwich, but I was not home.

(they called me out on the last 30m of power hoping i'd bring another one to him at the montreal sketch fest!)

I thought the Tompressions were pretty delightful, although few of them really did impressions in the sense of trying to do the voice - it was mostly just copying his phrasing. I was really glad that Tom got enjoyment out of them and didn't get bummed out or mad.

Tom and Julie Klausner were on Hollywood Handbook this week and it was pretty nuts. At the end, Hayes Davenport does a short impression of Tom that works better as a true impression voice-wise than most of the callers.

Oh I also enjoyed Cory getting chewed out and gomped. Hi Cory.

I have one coworker who is a Best Show fan though we rarely talk about it. This morning he asked me if I got gomped a couple of weeks ago because there was a Nick from Chicago who called in.

(it was not me)

"WAAAA!! I DON'T WANT TO DO THE SHOW!!!"

That was one of the funniest episodes in a while. The Tompressions were great but that last call with the high school kid was amazing, especially the conclusion.

It's frustrating when a stand-out episode is so self-referential because you can't really recommend it to someone as a "start here" episode.

I don't even know how that's done in a general sense. I've reeled in a couple of people with selected Wurster calls but I've never convinced a single person to listen to an entire episode.

is there a GOMPilation out there? because if so that'd be a great place to start

There are some good "best of" bits on youtube that have gone up in the last six months or so -- I've gotten some friends with long attention spans to give the show a try after hearing those, and they've stuck with it.

Hearing Tom crack up barely audibly, off-mic with his head probably under the desk, during the imitations is so much more fun to listen to than loud obnoxious on-mic hamming some LA podcasters are into.

Oh man, those moments when one or both of them is clearly struggling to maintain their composure are some of my favorite ever.

Particularly when Jon is all "hello?" when he knows Tom is engaged in an off-mic laughing fit.

I don't really try to get people to listen to it other than being enthusiastic about it in front of my friends. It took me a few episodes to get into the rhythm of the show myself and I only kept with it because a friend whose taste I respect was obsessed with the show. But I respect that it's not for everyone - it's a long show, the pace is slower than a lot of other modern entertainment, and Tom might be grating to some listeners.

The people who didn't give their names ("WAAH" and the Squarespace guy) were the best impressions. Very fun show.

I started listening to the show via Best Show Gems maybe 5/6 years ago, and then later moved on to the full show, which is a completely different beast. I have to say the first half hour of the show is still a slog to get through. I usually just skip to the first call. I can imagine people downloading/listening to the show to check it out but then turning it off before it even gets going.

The comment section readings were so funny

"onlystarearseoisides1thru6arecanon"

While still hilarious, I'm finding a lot of Wurster's older 'awful people' characters less funny because what we might've once called exaggerated caricatures are now just Trump supporters.

(Revive also prompted by the subject line of this week's email: 'Tonight's Best Show: DUH.')

ICYMI (on the Gilbert thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBlukXUiiWM

Tom's book coming in 2021:

https://pitchfork.com/news/tom-scharpling-announces-new-book-it-never-ends/

That's awesome news, thank u for sharing (might've discovered for myself if I weren't ridiculously behind on the show).