What is The Meaning of Life?
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Producers: Mal Sharpe and Alisa Clancy
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Review of What is The Meaning of Life?I couldn't get very far past the adults in diapers, the dead guy in the baseball stadium, and the pimp. I guess this is just not my type of humor. Of course, I was silly enough to expect that somebody was REALLY interested in exploring the meanings that various people place on human life. It didn't seem to me that the interviewer had a lot of respect for the interviewees. I'm probably too sensitive about that. I feel bad knocking this piece. Let me again emphasize that it just doesn't fit MY sense of humor. |
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Review of What is The Meaning of Life?This album has always been one of my favorite eBay finds. No one's ever had a better way with folks on the street than Mal Sharpe. This segment should be aired as a special episode of This American Life or some other NPR show. It's simply brilliant. |
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- Produced: Jun 04, 2006
- Added to PRX: Jun 12, 2006
- This piece is in English
Toby Whitty
Posted on August 24, 2008 at 07:45 AM | Permalink
Review of What is The Meaning of Life?
Having come across the groundbreaking 60s audio pranksters Coyle and Sharpe some 20 years ago, I've always been surprised and saddened at the limited availability of their material.
This solo piece by Mal Sharpe is given a different edge by having an overall theme and by having the "Man on the Street" interviews linked by music, however, this works extremely well and creates what for me was a very engaging piece. Despite the often surreal suggestions that Sharpe proposes to his interviewees there's never the sense that he's out to make them look foolish or to humiliate them. Bizarre but gentle humour.