Tom Scharpling

Last week on The Best Show, Tom Scharpling agreed to do 30 minutes of standup comedy for a live studio audience. Tom has never performed standup comedy before. JOKE MIND VIRUS was written and performed over the course of one day - Tuesday May 7th 2024. It was not workshopped or rehearsed. Recorded at Forever Dog in North Hollywood CA.

Super-Hero partners Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne, along with with Hope's parents Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, and Scott's daughter Cassie Lang, find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.

Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

Reeling from new information about Steven’s mom, Rose Quartz, the Crystal Gems feel like they’re falling apart! Ruby and Sapphire are at odds for the first time – what will happen to Garnet? A joyful celebration is interrupted when the final battle comes to Beach City – can Steven lead the Crystal Gems to victory? Will they have the strength to pull together and show Home-world the true heart of the Crystal Gems?

Based on the popular Best Show of WFMU, comedy duo Scharpling and Wurster adapt a few of their most popular characters into a tourism advertisement for the fictional city of Newbridge, NJ.

SEX AND BROADCASTING is a feature length documentary about New Jersey's WFMU, the world's strangest and most unique radio station, and one man's attempt to keep it alive in the face of recession, the persistent threat of commercial media, and the challenges that come with keeping a rebellious group of outsiders together.

Marc Maron returns to his old stomping grounds for an intimate special in which he takes stock of himself. More than ever, Maron is raw and hilariously honest as he dissects his own neuroses and self-loathing while providing outrageous anecdotes from his personal life, in which he starts to realize the hurt isn't real, it's just "Thinky Pain."

A great twitter war broke out between Tim Heidecker and Tom Scharpling.

Fantasia in Best Show Minor is the first and only ever Best Show on WFMU DVD Release! It features stuff you’re never going to believe, puppets. animation, sketches, travelogues from callers, and guest appearances from Patton Oswalt, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Zach Galifinakis, Fucked Up, Tim and Eric, John Hodgeman, Aimee Mann, Scharpling and Wurster, Yo La Tengo, Kurt Vile, Matt Fracton, Todd Barry, and Jason Woliner. The DVD was available exclusively during the 2010 WFMU pledge drive.