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Tag: Tom Scharpling
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How The Best Show became the world’s greatest in-joke incubator
During their 13 years on WFMU, Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster devised a virtual small town of fictional weirdos. Now they’re back with a studio of their own, a new box set, and a touring live act.
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Scharpling and Wurster revive ‘Rock, Rot & Rule’ for the Reader
To help celebrate the return of The Best Show, the Reader asked Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster to revisit their first collaboration, the famous “Rock, Rot & Rule” sketch, which predated the show by several years—and still stands as one of the great moments in the history of trolling. Wurster played fictional blowhard Ronald Thomas […]
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2013
This year Tomorrow Never Knows is bigger than ever, with Merchandise, Chelsea Wolfe, the Walkmen, Jessie Ware, and much more.
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Everybody’s a Critic
Rock, Rot & Rule (Stereolaffs) Once I was like you. I used to read the reviews in this section and think, “How the hell did that guy get to be a rock critic? I know more about music than he does.” Then one morning in the summer of 1996 I decided it would be more […]