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- Toby Whitty
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- "What is The Meaning of Life?"
- Summary: Comedy and Jazz: Man on the Street, Mal Sharpe wanders around America looking for the "meaning of life."
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Review of What is The Meaning of Life?
Toby Whitty
Posted on August 24, 2008 at 07:45 AM
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.