The Best Show on WFMU broadcasts every Tuesday from 9:00PM to 11:00PM EST on WFMU out of New Jersey and online at http://www.wfmu.org/. Host Tom Scharpling describes the show as 3 hours of "mirth, music and mayhem". Tom is a professional comedy writer/journalist and all around indie snob. Each show he plays music, tells a few stories/rants/reviews and then puts a topic on the table which listeners phone in for. Regular guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Ted Leo, Zach Galifianakis and Tim & Eric. Guest segments will sometimes be an interview, sometimes be a planned comedy bit and sometimes the guests just come in studio to field listener topic calls with Tom. The big repeat guests usually do the later and it always makes for a great show.
Another element of the show is Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster. Wurster calls in nearly every show as a different (most repeating) character who interacts in long drawn out comedy bits with Tom. Some of the characters are real people (like Marky Ramone and Gene Simmons) but most of them are made up residents of a town called Newbridge, NJ. Newbridge is a fictional town Scharpling & Wurster made up. There's reoccurring callbacks that run through nearly every Wurster call ("wait, whaaat?", threatening Tom, etc.) that you'll catch on to soon enough.
I'll start by uploading some of the guest clips and then if people get into it, i'll upload some Scharpling & Wurster bits and listener calls.
The Best Show of WFMU Archives - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/BS
Friends of Tom - http://www.friendsoftom.com
Sterolaffs (Scharpling & Wurster Comedy CDs) - http://www.stereolaffs.com
