The Best

"Rockwell gave visual form to essential American values."

The Best[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1992
Cast
Joe Frank, Larry Block, Friederike Frank, Freddy Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Improv Actors, Telephone, 1 hour
Preceded by: El Cholo (In The Beginning)
Followed by: In The Dark (Part 1)

The Best is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1992.

Synopsis

  • Mock intellectual presentations: Rockwell and Keen as visionaries, comparing Cristo with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, comparing Pol Pot and Charles Manson, Freud and Reich and Barry Manilow.
  • People call Joe, praise him, and then poison the scene. A dog barks and is shot. Joe coaches his parents in making a similar call.
  • Second person address to Alicia: eating meat, a misunderstood attack, adding reverb to a radio voice, an eloquent suicide note
  • Jimmy Swaggart

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