In the early 1960s, Mal Sharpe and James P. Coyle roamed the streets of San Francisco with a microphone, roping strangers into bizarre schemes and surreal stunts. Today, their humor has become a touchstone for a broad range of comics and personalities from The Upright Citizens Brigade to Henry Rollins to WFMU radio.
Coyle & Sharpe ponder the implications of the newest breakthrough in cranial expansion.
Coyle and Sharpe ask if anyone is willing to shelter Harry Kodiak and his family. By the way, Harry is a kodiak.
Coyle & Sharpe believe that it never hurts to have too much wheat, even if it grows on your head.
Coyle & Sharpe want you to exchange innards with another person. Relax, it's only for fun.
Coyle & Sharpe investigate the receptiveness of the public towards a possibly beneficial, probably harmful energy supplement.
Coyle & Sharpe want to meet you. Just remember to bring a trashbag filled with leftovers.
Coyle & Sharpe ask the tough questions. Like what would you do if you found yourself mixed up with a travel scam/human trafficking operation?
Coyle & Sharpe try to figure out the logistics of a dramatic performance of tooth decay.
Coyle & Sharpe are helping a disaster victim from the island of Bugrabia find a home in America.
Coyle and Sharpe use their Sounds of San Francisco series to ask a man about a home observation project they would like to conduct with him.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to insert a lens and film into his head in order to capture the world as a human camera.
Coyle and Sharpe use their series Sounds of San Francisco to segue into asking a man to donate one of his facial features to a Feature Way, a bank of human facial features, to show his love for San Francisco.
Coyle and Sharpe convince a man to insult a stranger on the street in the name of civic improvement.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to have his brain wiped clean in order to teach him a new language called Polylingua.
Coyle and Sharpe add a duo of young boys to their ruse and try to convince a woman that the boys, with their instruction, have destroyed multiple homes.
In another edition of their Sounds of San Francisco recurring segment, Coyle and Sharpe ask a man to identify the sound the shade.
Coyle and Sharpe attempt to convince a man to exchange his innards with complete strangers.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to undergo experimental surgery that would remove his tongue and exchange it with a foreign person’s in order to get rid of their accent.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to live in a grave during the day, come out at night, and join their cause in taking over Los Angeles.
Coyle and Sharpe campaign for a man running for governor, cruelly nicknamed The Human Leech, who attaches himself to people with suction cups and sucks out their energy.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a seminarian to hang from a pole in the middle of an airport runway as a way of training pilots to avoid birds while flying.
Coyle and Sharpe try to get an investor for a new line of cigarette filters made of hollowed out human pinky fingers.
Coyle and Sharpe try to explain to a San Francisco man the nickname, Levito, for an independent candidate for governor who has the ability to levitate.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a mother to allow her infant to take part in a radical science experiment that will cover the baby in fungus.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man to undergo experimental surgery in the back of their station wagon that would allow them to deposit coins inside of his brain.
Coyle and Sharpe attempt to seduce a local into a life of burglary, and make a dollar in the process.
In this weeks episode Coyle and Sharpe innocently ask an antique dealer if they can smash all of his antiques.
In this weeks episode Coyle and Sharpe try out their own language on a very confused man.
This week on Coyle and Sharpe, a San Franciscan man gets the opportunity to meet the celebrity, Mr. Rodent, who is most famous for having an entire race of small creatures named after him.
This week, Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a man that they are replacing a parking meter and that he has to pay them instead.
Coyle and Sharpe confuse and bully a young man into supporting a moleman's campaign for governor.
Coyle and Sharpe talk to a local man about a scientist who makes corpses dance by installing an electronic gizmo inside of them. The local man's reaction is quite wonderful.
Coyle and Sharpe completely confuse a local working man by speaking in codes and gibberish.
Coyle and Sharpe discuss with a native San Franciscan the appropriate level of mourning for the death of a car.
Coyle and Sharpe, acting as Cigar Box Investigators, prompt a cigar owner to sing a song about cigars in his native language.
This week The Imposters try to convince John to wear a coat that allows travel without physical exertion. Sounds good right?
This week The Imposters ask a citizen if he'd be willing to start using his skull as a sugar bowl.
This week Coyle & Sharp approach a moving company employee to try and figure the logistics of moving some very precious cargo.
Coyle and Sharpe stop a man on the street and try to explain a special new advancement in radio technology.
This week Coyle & Sharpe are looking for a star for their new film "Daring But Dead". What better place to find one than on the streets of San Francisco!
This week Coyle and Sharpe ask a gentleman if he would be willing to go to France under adverse conditions.
On this week's podcast Coyle and Sharpe question the humanity of using animals as musical instruments.
Coyle and Sharpe attempt to get a man to let them add flame to the paper bag he is carrying.
Coyle & Sharpe discuss the prospects of a 7 ft., 300 lb, antennaed leech man in San Francisco.
This week, Coyle & Sharpe talk seriously with a man about apples that grow human feet, and how he might herd them across the country.
Coyle and Sharpe try to convince a mailman to let them deliver some mail, and promise not to do any "rifling".
Coyle & Sharpe introduce "San Francisco's newest, freshest talent: James P. Coyle, Professional Droner".
Coyle and Sharpe affect piss-poor French accents and ask an antiques dealer if they can smash his goods.
Coyle and Sharpe are looking for an attendant for their agricultural facility. He should be comfortable with control procedures and be willing to apply electrical shock if neccessary.
Coyle and Sharpe discuss with an Australian gentleman the possibility of growing an ashtray from his head.