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Coyle & Sharpe: Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks & Put-Ons

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2000

If you didn’t hear it, you wouldn’t believe it. At most, the premise is scripted; all else is ad-libbed, at the spur of the moment. The comedians feed the straight lines; the humor comes from the befuddled bystanders. And they did this in the early ‘Sixties, a time “too inhibited" to permit such absurdity. You can’t explain it, any more than you can explain them. You can only listen, and marvel at the trouble they cause.

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