Since launching the Best Show in 2000, the comedy team of Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster have lampooned all aspects of pop culture, including classic rockers like Bruce Springsteen, Kiss and Pink Floyd. Billed as “three hours of mirth, music and mayhem,” every episode of the radio program finds Scharpling weighing in on whatever is on his mind, taking calls from listeners and interviewing his many friends and fans in the comedy and indie-rock worlds.

But the weekly highlight is the mostly scripted comedy bit that features Wurster, who by day is the drummer for Superchunk, the Mountain Goats and Bob Mould. Playing a variety of characters — some recurring, some created for the call — Wurster begins with a premise that starts out plausible, but layer upon layer of hysterical weirdness soon unfolds. The bulk of the calls, which usually last between 30-45 minutes, are set in Newbridge, N.J., a fictional town that, like The Simpsons’ Springfield, is whatever it needs to be at that moment and has developed a life of its own throughout the run of the program.

The Best Show originally aired on New Jersey’s listener-supported free-form radio station WFMU, but Scharpling ended its run in December 2013. Scharpling then relaunched the program a year later on its own website, where the three-hour show can be streamed live every Tuesday at 9PM ET or downloaded as a podcast the next day. Many of the entries on our list of the Top 10 Scharpling & Wurster Best Show Classic Rock Moments were released on The Best of the Best Show, a 16-CD box set released in 2015, while others come from its new iteration or the Best Show Gems podcast that brought latecomers a taste of the history of Scharpling & Wurster.