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The Best Show with Tom Scharpling
The Best Show with Tom Scharpling (formerly The Best Show on WFMU) is a combination music, call-in, and comedy Internet radio show and podcast hosted independently by Tom Scharpling since 2014, which previously aired on New Jersey–based radio station WFMU from 2000 to 2013. The show's slogan is "three hours of mirth, music, and mayhem."
The Best Show on WFMU first aired on October 10, 2000, occupying the 9 to 11 p.m. time slot. The current incarnation of The Best Show continues to air on Tuesday evenings on YouTube from the studios of Forever Dog in Los Angeles.
On December 27, 2016, the show began accepting donations through Patreon, providing ancillary content and spin-off shows. The show has also spawned an Adult Swim special and several album releases on Scharpling & Wurster's Stereolaffs label, Third Man Records and a 16-disc Numero Group box set.
The show is known for its deeply dedicated, card-carrying fanbase, who call themselves "Friends of Tom" with listeners and callers from the United States, Canada, the U.K., Sweden, Japan, New Zealand, and Tasmania.
While a DJ at WFMU, Tom Scharpling took the first scripted on-air from longtime friend Jon Wurster, who at the time was the drummer for the band Superchunk. Posing as the fictional Ronald Thomas Clontle, he claimed to be the author of a book called Rock, Rot & Rule, hailed as "The Ultimate Argument Settler" in which he irrationally classifies various music acts into ones that "rock," "rot" or "rule". Actual callers starting phoning in, irately debating Clontle’s arrgoance and historical inaccuracies.[2]
After that, the duo started to envision a radio show devoted to that type of humor on a weekly basis – inspired partially by the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and the East Village alternative comedy show, Eating It.[3]
Scharpling hosted the first episode of The Best Show on WFMU on October 10, 2000. Starting June 5, 2001, the show was expanded to three hours filling the 8 to 11 p.m. slot, later moving to 9 p.m. to midnight on June 15, 2010.
The program featured a roster of genuine callers, as well as calls in-character from musician Jon Wurster, best known for his tenure as the drummer for Superchunk (with occasional in-character calls from H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, Peyton Reed and others).
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The Best Show with Tom Scharpling
The Best Show with Tom Scharpling (formerly The Best Show on WFMU) is a combination music, call-in, and comedy Internet radio show and podcast hosted independently by Tom Scharpling since 2014, which previously aired on New Jersey–based radio station WFMU from 2000 to 2013. The show's slogan is "three hours of mirth, music, and mayhem."
The Best Show on WFMU first aired on October 10, 2000, occupying the 9 to 11 p.m. time slot. The current incarnation of The Best Show continues to air on Tuesday evenings on YouTube from the studios of Forever Dog in Los Angeles.
On December 27, 2016, the show began accepting donations through Patreon, providing ancillary content and spin-off shows. The show has also spawned an Adult Swim special and several album releases on Scharpling & Wurster's Stereolaffs label, Third Man Records and a 16-disc Numero Group box set.
The show is known for its deeply dedicated, card-carrying fanbase, who call themselves "Friends of Tom" with listeners and callers from the United States, Canada, the U.K., Sweden, Japan, New Zealand, and Tasmania.
While a DJ at WFMU, Tom Scharpling took the first scripted on-air from longtime friend Jon Wurster, who at the time was the drummer for the band Superchunk. Posing as the fictional Ronald Thomas Clontle, he claimed to be the author of a book called Rock, Rot & Rule, hailed as "The Ultimate Argument Settler" in which he irrationally classifies various music acts into ones that "rock," "rot" or "rule". Actual callers starting phoning in, irately debating Clontle’s arrgoance and historical inaccuracies.[2]
After that, the duo started to envision a radio show devoted to that type of humor on a weekly basis – inspired partially by the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and the East Village alternative comedy show, Eating It.[3]
Scharpling hosted the first episode of The Best Show on WFMU on October 10, 2000. Starting June 5, 2001, the show was expanded to three hours filling the 8 to 11 p.m. slot, later moving to 9 p.m. to midnight on June 15, 2010.
The program featured a roster of genuine callers, as well as calls in-character from musician Jon Wurster, best known for his tenure as the drummer for Superchunk (with occasional in-character calls from H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, Peyton Reed and others).
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