As a musician, Jon Wurster is best-known as the drummer for Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, New Pornographers and The Bob Mould Band.
He’s also half of the comedy team Scharpling and Wurster.
Tom Scharpling was the host of a radio show which originally aired on WFMU. Scharpling and Wurster struck up a friendship, and Wurster started regularly calling into Scharpling’s radio show, voicing different characters.
The Best Show aired for 13 years, and an exhaustive collection of the show’s shenanigans featuring Wurster’s crazy personnas, has just been released as a box set.
We talk to Wurster about his early days in the Philly punk scene in the 1980s, becoming a professional musician and coping with life on the road.
Wurster also reveals the surprising inspiration for the voice of one of his most notorious Best Show characters, Philly Boy Roy.
The “Best Show” box set by Jon Wurster and Tom Scharpling is now available at Amazon, and includes 16 CDs, a book and lots of bonus material.
You can listen to new “The Best Show” as a webcast and podcast through TheBestShow.net