Best of the Best Show
I’m not the first to notice this, but the world can be a stupid and horrible place, despite the hard work of George W. Bush to fix it. And I’m also not the first to notice that there remains one thing that is consistently not stupid and horrible, but actually great, and that is The Best Show on WFMU. If you know me personally, I have undoubtedly told you to stop talking to me and go listen to this show. It is available as a podcast on iTunes, and you can listen to it live in the New York area on Tuesday nights from 8pm-11pm.
Of course, it can feel like a big investment to get into this show, because it is three hours long and especially because the farther back into the archives you listen, the more you’ll enjoy the current episodes, as Tom does lots of coded references and buried call backs. There are hundreds of hours of this show that you need to listen to. Sometimes people are hesitant to make such an investment, and some people will just ignore my constant enthusiastic recommendation throughout entire tenure of our friendship until they hear Patton Oswalt in some bullshit interview say that he likes the Best Show and suddenly she will subscribe to the podcast and join the Friends of Tom Facebook group. A big fuck you to all of my friends whose name ends in “ism.”
The point of all this is that I was recommending the show once again to another friend of mine and she asked me where she should start and I wasn’t really sure, because there is so much great stuff. But then I remembered the episode from last fall (November 28, 2006, to be exact), which I believe to be the perfect Best Show episode. If you’re already a fan of the show, then I’m sure we could have lots of fights about what is the best, but this episode perfectly encapsulates the spirit and humor of what is basically my favorite thing in the world.
AND GUESS WHO HAPPENED TO HAVE A COPY OF IT ON MP3?
http://www.corporate-casual.com/sound/BestShow.mp3
Enjoy this brief moment of earnest enthusiasm for something that I truly love. I’m sure I’ll have some uneducated joke about pizza bagels up your butt tomorrow.
July 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I listened to that entire show on the way back and forth from work. Maybe I’m spoiled by listening to Howard Stern, but that show was complete crap. Maybe it would have been better if they didn’t take the music he plays out of the podast. The whole thing about Tom Waits and Happy Feet and Fight Club and Borat. Does he just hate on things to get people riled up enough so that they will call and fill the vacuum of his spartan show? What the hell is the deal with the song that loops perpetually in the background for the entire show? I guess there were som many un-entertaining things about this show that I have trouble believing that anybody listens to it.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and my opinion is that you should seriously stop reading this diary.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am
i got into some of the newer Best Shows and it is funny…
PS now i’m really curious what you would think of russell brand’s radio show. it’s not as long as the best show and mayyybbzz even funnier. plus it’s on itunes FREE - you just search for “russell brand” or bbc radio 2
July 27th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Gabe,
What happened?
You used to make me laugh.
Now you’re lame.
I hate it.
xoxo
Denny
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