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"Hey, what's wrong? Why are you walking away?" Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe spent the early '60s doing absurdist man-on-the-street interviews. The more innocent era, when media was just becoming truly mass, allowed the pair to elicit unsuspecting responses to their wiggy imaginings. One young man, offered the chance for employment in a pit of fire, bats, snakes, and maniacs (a literal living hell, with a "death index [of] about 98 percent"), objects only to the idea that he'd have to cook his own lunch: one of the bats. In another segment, the pair attempts to recruit a member for the cult of Three-ism ("When did this begin?" asks the victim. Coyle and Sharpe, in tandem: "Last week"). Both sophisticated and inspiredly goofy, Coyle and Sharpe stand as fathers--or at least naughty older brothers--to the likes of Firesign Theatre.
--Rickey Wright
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ASIN: B00001QEFN
Release Date: 2000-01-18 |
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- Microphone in Brain
- Ashtray on Nose
- Three-ism
- Blotch, The
- Zeb-Eel
- Maniacs in Living Hell
- Sagrana My Day
- Printer-Painter
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"Hey, what's wrong? Why are you walking away?" Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe spent the early '60s doing absurdist man-on-the-street interviews. The more innocent era, when media was just becoming truly mass, allowed the pair to elicit unsuspecting responses to their wiggy imaginings. One young man, offered the chance for employment in a pit of fire, bats, snakes, and maniacs (a literal living hell, with a "death index [of] about 98 percent"), objects only to the idea that he'd have to cook his own lunch: one of the bats. In another segment, the pair attempts to recruit a member for the cult of Three-ism ("When did this begin?" asks the victim. Coyle and Sharpe, in tandem: "Last week"). Both sophisticated and inspiredly goofy, Coyle and Sharpe stand as fathers--or at least naughty older brothers--to the likes of Firesign Theatre. --Rickey Wright
Customer Reviews:
Not quite what you'd expect, but in the positive sense........2001-06-09
I recieved this CD on my birthday last year. It seemed like your typical Allen Funt-type man-on-the-street pranks. But once I actually listened to it, I was delightfully surprised. It IS Funt-like in concept, but part of what makes it work is that there are two pranksters who work as a team, instead of one person. Funt concepts with the comic sensibility of Bob and Ray, or, perhaps, the wry subtlety of Mark Twain, if you stretch it. I wish there were more CDs like this available. Coyle and Sharpe just go out into the street with tape recorder and mic and play mental badminton with their victims! It's weird, but hilarious. The "Maniacs in Living Hell" cut is outstanding, as Sharpe offers a job picking up objects in a snake-(and bat)-pit to a young man who only objects to having to cook his own lunch. He MUST have been playing along, because, as dumb as human beings admittedly are, I can't imagine anyone beleiving something so crazy! one warning though: if you listen to this CD, you'll never trust anybody you meet on the street again.
Coyle & Sharp.......2001-01-27
Coyle & Sharp, two normal-seeming white guys in conservative suits and ties, went into the streets of San Francisco in the early 1960's with a tape recorder, a microphone each, and a folder of releases, and from this simple premise, all Hell breaks loose. After brainstorming over coffee in the morning, they'd hit the streets, pulling hilarious pranks on unsuspecting pedestrians. Best targets seemed to be vacationing Brits, whose stuffy incomprehension made them ideally suited for fictional cults, offers to submit to mind control, and polite, persistent demands that each victim of their pranks define precisely how gullible (or not) he or she is. What becomes clear, after a second listen, is that the fun here is not in the premise of the pranks, because any disgrunted undergraduate can riff prodigiously along the lines of an Alan Funt. The fun of Sharpe & Coyle is that they had a peculiar mastery of their own brand of verbal tomfoolery. It's a combination of fake erudition and matter-of-fact improvisation. There is something slightly dated about the material now, but when this stuff works, it works so well that if you aren't laughing, you aren't human. Pete sez, give it a try.
Urban Encounters with a Cosmic Sense of Humor.......2000-01-20
James P. Coyle and Mal Sharpe are men whose cosmic sense of humor was well ahead of the time in which they instigated these humorous urban encounters. In the early '60s Coyle and Sharpe spent their days on the streets of San Francisco armed with mic and taperecorder posing ridiculous situations to the people they met. The resulting interviews are still incredibly funny - they have withstood the test of time. This CD is only a small portion of their archive, but a representative sample. My favorite? "3ism" a classic in which they recruit a man waiting for the 6 Masonic bus to sacrifice his individuality and become their "3ist" partner "now and forever more". "You have come into our destiny, and henceforth you shall remain with us". The man plays along wonderfully as they join him on the bus and ask him "what's for dinner?" If you enjoy this CD check out Coyle and Sharpe "On the Loose" which was released 5 years ago.
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