Listen, don’t laugh, but I’m not sure that I know what a joke is. Not technically anyhow. No one ever told me. Some day I hope to learn, and I believe I eventually will. In all likelihood I will learn with the help of certain educational materials such as the recently announced box-set of Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster’s Best Show on WFMU via the Numero Group. I tell you what, these fellas know jokes. They know ‘em inside and out, like a reversible hat or one of those sandwiches from KFC where the meat acts like the bread. I trust them to teach me.
As such, I have taken it upon myself to write a relatively random string of words boosting the media presence of their recently announced box-set via the Numero Group in hopes that some of my words might accidentally become jokes. (KFC sandwiches? hats?) Anyhow, the box set is a pretty “big deal” (are those quote marks jokes? Am I doing jokes now?!): it contains over 20 hours of phone calls from the show across 16 CDs (there’s also a USB stick included with the whole set plus four additional hours of unreleased material on it). The box will also contain a whole gaggle of other materials including a hardback book with essays by Patton Oswalt, Julie Klausner, Damian Abraham, AP Mike, and an extensive interview with Jake Fogelnest; paper dolls, post-cards, and temporary tattoos.
The whole thing will be released on March 17 of next year. And, best of all, if you pre-order the album right now, you’ll get… actually, I’ll let the boys themselves tell you in their promotional video below. Suffice it to say, my takeaway is that some essential elements in all joking are telephones, good friends, and a sack.
• Scharpling & Wurster: http://www.scharplingandwurster.com
• Numero Group: http://www.numerogroup.com
More about: Scharpling & Wurster
