Remembering Colye and Sharpe, groundbreaking comedy duo

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : Remembering Colye and Sharpe, groundbreaking comedy duo Image
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : Remembering Colye and Sharpe, groundbreaking comedy duo Image

Remembering Colye and Sharpe, groundbreaking comedy duo

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This week, we’re doing something a little different: looking back on the work of Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe. Two brilliant comedians, decades ahead of their time. The comedy duo recorded a series of hilarious and bizarre man-on-the-street records in the 1960s. They’d approach people with usually an absurd proposition: let’s rob a bank together. Let’s give a stranger a child. Let’s become one person – all all three of us. Deeply weird and deeply funny questions. Jim Coyle died in 1993. Mal Sharpe died this past March. He was 83. We’re taking time to remember the comedy duo by revisiting a couple conversations with Mal Sharpe. The conversations are some of the first celebrity interviews on the show, back when it was called The Sound of Young America. We’ll also listen to some classic Coyle and Sharpe vox populi interviews.