Scharpling & Wurster

An unlikely comic duo whose work took humor on the radio in a new and inventive direction, Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster developed a passionate cult following and earned the praise of many fellow comedians with their appearances on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling, a longtime staple on the Jersey City, New Jersey-based free-form radio station WFMU-FM. Tom Scharpling was an aspiring comedy writer and a serious music fan in the early '90s when he became a volunteer at WFMU; he also wrote and published a music fanzine, 18 Wheeler, and spun the 'zine off into a label that,...