The Best
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1992 | |
| Cast | |
| Larry Block, Friederike Frank, Freddy Frank, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, Improv Actors, Telephone, 59 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | El Cholo (In The Beginning) |
| Followed by: | In The Dark (Part 1) |
Rockwell gave visual form to essential American values.
The Best is 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
Music
- "Sketch" - Penguin Cafe Orchestra (from Signs Of Life, 1987) | YouTube [Intro]
- "Next To You" - Toni Childs (from House Of Hope, 1991) | YouTube [31:34]