Coyle & Sharpe

Jim Coyle and Mal Sharpe were two pranksters who appeared to be straitlaced on the outside, but were in fact very twisted on the inside. The two walked the streets of San Francisco in the early 1960s with weird ideas and a hidden microphone in search of suckers who might be lured into their elaborate put-ons. They carved out their own genre, preceding Hidden Camera, the Jerky Boys, and others who ...more