Saturday, May 16th, 2015
with Special Guests
*7:30pm | $20 | 18+*
For one-night only the renowned comedy duo of Scharpling & Wurster, of The Best Show, bring you a star-studded event filled with mirth, music and mayhem! Tom and Jon
are hitting the road promoting their massive and definitive 16CD box set *Scharpling & Wurster: The Best of The Best Show *out on Numero Group and are bringing
along their friends from Newbridge and beyond to celebrate this historic release. To make this show even more special, they are honored to be recording it for a release as a part of Third Man Records Live Series! Tickets are available now online, so scoop them up before we sell out!
Tom Scharpling is one half of the renowned comedy duo Scharpling & Wurster. Scharpling & Wurster ranked #31 on ROLLING STONE’S list of the Fifty Funniest People. Tom writes for television and is currently developing a show for Amazon, which is not actually television but is kind of like television. He has also been directing music videos – he was named Video Music Director of 2012 by SPIN his video for Aimee Mann’s “Labrador” was named #2 Music Video of the Year (after “Gangham Style”). He is currently directing commercials and developing a few things that will hopefully excite you through 2015 and beyond!
Jon Wurster is… um… the *other* half of the renowned comedy duo Scharpling & Wurster, who have been…ah, forget it. Jon has been the drummer for indie-rock pioneers Superchunk since 1991. He’s also the drummer in The Mountain Goats and The Bob Mould Band. When he’s not making records or touring the world Jon's lending his writing talents to the Adult Swim programs “Squidbillies” and “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell” and appearing in videos by Aimee Mann, J. Mascis, The New Pornographers, The Postal Service and others. Jon's is the voice on the other end of the line during the Scharpling and Wurster calls.
For more information regarding Scharpling & Wurster, visit thebestshow.net. Purchase tickets here.
