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WFMU, home to many radio programs helmed by some of our favorite comedians, has a brand new show in Dedications with Jo Firestone.

Every Monday from 5PM-6PM PST/8PM-9PM EST on WFMU, the great Jo Firestone will take in requests for soft rocks that you want dedicate to anyone.

Call 201-209-9368 if you really want to send your thoughts and a Chicago song to someone.

Knowing Jo, there’s sure to be something weird and wonderful to come out all of this.

2016 NYC Podfest Announces Line-Up

March 14, 2016

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From May 20th-22nd, The NYC Podfest continues to get bigger and feature more noteworthy podcasts that are born in bred in and around Big Apple.

So far, they’ve got:

FRIDAY, MAY 20
7 PM — Guys We F*cked (The Anti-Slut Shaming Podcast)
9 PM — Risk! (The State Book Release Show)
11PM — Tell ‘Em Steve Dave

SATURDAY, MAY 21
2:00 PM — Where’s Larry? An Impractical Jokers Podcast
3:00 PM — The Dave Juskow Podcast
4:00 PM — Lady Parts Justice’s Repro Madness
5:00 PM — Think Again – A Big Think Podcast
6:15 PM — Keith and the Girl & Kill Me Now with Judy Gold
8:30 PM — The Adventures of Danny & Mike
9:45 PM — Paul Mercurio: 2 Chairs And A Microphone
11:00 PM — The Flop House

SUNDAY, MAY 22
2 PM — Pretty Much it
3:00 PM — Black Men Can’t Jump (In Hollywood)
4:00 PM — In The Conversation
5:00 PM — WMFU’s Dr. Gameshow with Jo Firestone/WMFU’s The Goddamn Dave Hill Show
7:00 PM — Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast
8:15 PM — The Ensemblist
9:30 PM — Robert Kelly’s You Know What Dude!
10:45 PM — Mouth Time with Reductress

All the shows/tapings/etc. will take place between Brooklyn’s Bell House and LES’ Cake Shop. Get more details here and tickets here.

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster Are Making a “Best of The Best Show” Boxed Set

October 17, 2014

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While you’re waiting for The Best Show to return, there’s something to make that wait even more enticing than it already is.

The Best Show’s Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster are coming out with a 16 CD boxed set “culled from the vaults of WFMU—the world’s most acclaimed free-form radio station—comes over 20 hours of mind-bending, hilarious phone calls between the renowned comedy duo of Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster”.

There’s also “a 108-page hardcover book with cover art by Joe Matt that features essays by Patton Oswalt, Julie Klausner, Damian Abraham (lead singer of F*cked Up) and Best Show associate producer Michael Lisk (aka A.P. Mike), a definitive interview with Scharpling & Wurster by Jake Fogelnest, notes on the evolution and inspiration behind each bit written by Scharpling & Wurster, a USB drive with all of the calls plus 4 hours of bonus material, a fold-out map of Newbridge, Philly Boy Roy & Timmy von Trimble Paper Dolls, postcards, and temporary tattoos with The Best Show catch-phrases.”

If you pre-order from Numero Group, you’ll get a piece of a smashed phone that Wurster used to make the first Rock, Rot & Rule call along with a certificate of authenticity.

Don’t think this is all real? See Scharpling and Wurster all explain it themselves and smash the phone.

Then, put your pre-order in at Numero Group that ships out March of 2015 because you know you want this and that piece of the phone.

The Goddamn Dave Hill Show Premieres Tomorrow at WFMU

January 6, 2014

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The Goddamn Dave Hill Show Premieres Tomorrow at WFMU

Without barely wasting any time at all, the slot previously occupied by The Best Show at WFMU with Tom Scharpling will continue to be taken up by great comedy in the form of The Goddamn Dave Hill Show.

It starts 6PM PST tomorrow and will have H. Jon Benjamin as a guest, so we don’t even need to tell you to get on board ASAP.

The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling Ends Tonight

December 17, 2013

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The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling Ends Tonight

At 6PM PST tonignt, the final episode of The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling will bow and the end of era will pass.

Make sure to tune in/stream here.

Don’t get too sad though as the one and only Dave Hill is going to be filling in this slot soon.

Morning Debriefing 8/24/11

1) The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson was the show to watch last night as he got an anthrax scare and had Lewis Black on.

2) The National Lampoon Twitter Awards rightfully nominates Eddie Pepitone multiple times where the Shorty Awards didn’t.

3) Tom Scharpling is 1) not Patton Oswalt and 2) makes amazing music videos. See what we’re talking about here.

4) Rick Overton gets interviewed by Buzzine for The Green Room with Paul Provenza.

5) The Comedy Garage FINALLY has a Wikipedia page!

6) As promised (since our reblog of Zach Dionne’s great GQ article about WTF got partially confused with being written by us and we wanted something clearly by us about Maron at the Comedy Bureau), here’s our review of Marc Maron’s latest album “This Has To Be Funny”.

7) ON THE HORIZON
Tartar Control’s Residency @ Doll Hut EVERY WED. IN SEPT. 9PM $5

8) COMEDY CRAWL
The Best & Brightest @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
The Miracle Violence Show @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
Comedy Slice @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $10 at door/$5 online (with promo code: IGGY)
Ian Edwards @ Brea Improv 8PM $15/2 item min.
Neighbors @ The Warehouse 8PM FREE
Meltdown @ Nerdist Theater 8:30PM $8
The Ed Galvez Punk House @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $8
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9PM $5 (stand by only)
Beer in the Shower @ Dreams Bar & Cafe 9:30PM FREE
Clownvis Presley @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5

9) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
THE SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7PM
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/first come, first served
GRINDHOUSE CAFE 1051 N. Havenhurst, West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM
CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/$3 cover/10 min. guarantee
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/7 min.
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel, past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available

10) Wow, someone does not like CBS.

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Tonight, Jo Firestone Will Start Taking Your Soft Rock Song Requests and Dedications on WFMU

2016 NYC Podfest Announces Line-Up

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster Are Making a “Best of The Best Show” Boxed Set

The Goddamn Dave Hill Show Premieres Tomorrow at WFMU

The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling Ends Tonight

Morning Debriefing 8/24/11