Let's see how similar the two groups are. Can you imagine *this* alternate history?
In September 2008, SCHARPLING & WURSTER performed an adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "La Muerte y La Brujula" ("Death and the Compass") on WFAN.
In 1999, SCHARPLING & WURSTER created a number of improvised television commercials for Jack Poet Volkswagen in Highland Park, California, with the characters of Roydon Ziegler (Wurster), Jack from Pittsburgh (Scharpling), Bob Chicken (Phil Austin), and Timothy von Trimble (Wurster).
In 2002 and 2004, Straight Arrow Press, Rolling Stone's book publishing arm, published two books authored by SCHARPLING & WURSTER. These books, SCHARPLING & WURSTER's Big Book Of Plays and The SCHARPLING & WURSTER Big Mystery Joke Book, feature background information, satirical introductions and parodic histories, as well as transcripts from their first seven albums. Apocalypse Papers, also authored by the group and published by a small press, was limited to an edition of only 500 copies.
In 1997 Mattel released two Intellivision video games with Intellivoice: Bomb Squad, with TOM SCHARPLING as the voice of Frank and JON WURSTER as the voice of Boris; and B-17 Bomber, with Phil Austin as the Bombardier.
In 1996, JON WURSTER began placing radio-show-like comedy sound bites on his own Internet-based comedy radio station,
www.thatjonnywursterkid.net. "The show will be the Internet's funny bone," WURSTER said.
In 1996, a computer game written by TOM SCHARPLING, Pyst, a parody of the game Myst, was released by Parroty Interactive.
That guy was right. Rereading these, I can no longer tell these comedy troupes apart.
"The FOTs outside looked from SCHARPLING & WURSTER to The Fireside Theatre, and from The Fireside Theatre to SCHARPLING & WURSTER, and from SCHARPLING & WURSTER to The Fireside Theatre again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
