I've probably looked like a goofball walking around corporate campus laughing solo to a podcast of "The Best Show" on WFMU, a New Jersey based listener-supported radio station. The show is a comedy/call-in/talk hybrid show hosted by Tom Scharpling whose wikipedia bio says he produces Monk, though that fact has nothing to do with his hosting of the show.
The particular episode I've been enjoying is from July 21 and includes comedian Paul F.Tompkins as special guest. The two are a hilarious match. Paul is always funny of his own accord(perhaps my favorite comedian aside from Louis CK), but when given a partner and the topic like this, the Gathering of the Juggalos, all hell breaks loose and hilarity ensues. They are hilarious in their brutal mocking.
Listen to it here. If you don't have 3 spare hours, the Gathering of the Juggalos bit starts at 1:09:23 and pretty much lasts for the remainder of the show. Also of note, there's a funny bit mocking Abbott and Costello at the 34 minute mark.
One response to “Paul F.Tompkins on WFMU”
PFT is good every time he's on, but one of my favorite appearances of his is from 4/22/2008, when "Philly Boy Roy" (comedian and Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, who calls in almost every week as different characters) stops by and gets Paul to regress back to his Philadelphia years and develop a thick Philly accent.
And if you Google "Scharpling and Wurster," you can find a lot of Wurster's best calls to the show. His original bit (Rock, Rot, and Rule) is pretty great. He claims to be an author who wrote "the ultimate argument settler" on whether bands "rock," "rot," or "rule," and his cluelessness (he says the Beatles rot because they had a lot of bad songs) leads to a lot of incredulous calls from listeners.
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