
Robert D. Kaplan
American writer
Harry Shearer is a multi-talented American entertainer who has had an impressive career as an actor, comedian, musician, radio host, writer, and producer. He has been a part of famous projects like The Simpsons, This Is Spinal Tap, and Le Show, and has won awards for his work. Shearer has also been an artist in residence at Loyola University in New Orleans.
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Harry Julius Sheareris an American actor, comedian, musician, radio host, writer, and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Lifewith Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mull’s television series Fernwood 2 Night.
Shearer was a cast member on Saturday Night Live between 1979 and 1980, and 1984 and 1985. Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the film This Is Spinal Tapand A Mighty Windand The Big Uneasy (2010). Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show, incorporating satire, music, and sketch comedy. He has written three books.
Shearer has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has received several other Emmy and Grammy Award nominations. He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. He became an artist in residence at Loyola University, New Orleans in 2013.
Harry Shearer was born on December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California.
From 1969 to 1976, Harry Shearer was a member of the radio comedy group called The Credibility Gap.
Harry Shearer co-created, co-wrote, and co-starred in the 1984 satirical rockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap, which became a hit.
Since 1989, Harry Shearer has provided voices for characters including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, and others on the animated sitcom The Simpsons.
Harry Shearer has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has received several other Emmy and Grammy Award nominations for his work as an actor, writer, and producer.
In 2013, Harry Shearer became an artist in residence at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you’re looking for morals in politics you’re looking for bananas in the cheese department.
American actor (born 1943)
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
American actor (born 1943)
We’re very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.
American actor (born 1943)
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
American actor (born 1943)
I’m at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show – so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
American actor (born 1943)
I didn’t have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
American actor (born 1943)
You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You’d come in, do a read-through, there’d be a few rehearsals, then you’d come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
American actor (born 1943)
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
American actor (born 1943)
When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.
American actor (born 1943)
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
American actor (born 1943)
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
American actor (born 1943)
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that’s endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
American actor (born 1943)
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason – the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you’d be off mike and off camera.
American actor (born 1943)
You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
American actor (born 1943)
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
American actor (born 1943)
I was a Political Science major.
American actor (born 1943)
My parents didn’t want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
American actor (born 1943)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
American actor (born 1943)
Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we’ve had that before. But I wasn’t one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.
American actor (born 1943)