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Harry Shearer
Shearer at Wordstock on November 10, 2007
Born
Harry Julius Shearer
Occupation(s)Actor, comedian, writer, voice artist, musician, author, radio host
Years active1953–present
Spouse(s)Penelope Nichols (1974–1977)
Judith Owen (1993–)
Websitehttp://www.harryshearer.com

Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, comedian, writer, voice artist, musician, author and radio host. He is known for his long-running role on The Simpsons, his work on Saturday Night Live, the comedy band Spinal Tap and his radio program Le Show. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor, appearing in The Jack Benny Program, as well as the 1953 films Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and The Robe. In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the break up of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film Real Life with Albert Brooks and started writing for Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night. In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live. Shearer describes his experience on the show as a "living hell" and he did not get along well with the other writers and cast members. He left the show in 1980. Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a satirical rockumentary about a band called Spinal Tap. Shearer portrayed Derek Smalls, the bassist, and Michael McKean and Christopher Guest played the other two members. The film became a cult hit and the band has since released several albums and played several concerts. While promoting the film, Shearer was offered the chance to return to Saturday Night Live. He accepted, but left the show for good in January 1985. Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW. The program, a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy, is carried on many public radio stations throughout the United States.

In 1989, Shearer became a part of the cast of The Simpsons. He provides voices for numerous characters, including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Principal Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle. Shearer has been vocal about what he perceives as the show's declining quality. In 2004, he said "I rate the last three seasons as among the worst."[1]

Shearer also directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration and Godzilla. Shearer has written three books, Man Bites Town, It's the Stupidity, Stupid, and Not Enough Indians. He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

Career

Early career

Mel Blanc took Shearer "under his wing" during his early days in show-business.

Shearer was born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dora Warren (née Kohn), a book-keeper, and Mack Shearer.[2] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria and Poland.[3][4] Starting when Shearer was four years old, he had a piano teacher whose daughter worked as a child actress. The piano teacher later decided to make a career change and become a children's agent, as she knew people in the business through her daughter's work. The teacher asked Shearer's parents for permission to take him to an audition. Several months later, she called Shearer's parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show The Jack Benny Program. Shearer received the role when he was seven years old.[5] He described Jack Benny as "very warm and approachable [...] He was a guy who dug the idea of other people on the show getting laughs, which sort of spoiled me for other people in comedy."[6] Shearer said in an interview that one person who "took him under his wing" and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.[7] Shearer made his film debut in the 1953 film Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, in which he only had a small part. Later that year, he made his first big film performance in The Robe.[6] Throughout his childhood and teenage years he worked in television, film, and radio.[6] In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver. After the filming, Shearer's parents said they did not want him to be a regular in a series. Instead they wanted him to just do occasional work so that he could get a normal childhood. Shearer and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network.[6]

Shearer attended UCLA as a political science major in the early 1960s and decided to quit show business to become a "serious person".[5] However, he says this lasted approximately a month, and he joined the staff of the Daily Bruin, UCLA's school newspaper, during his freshman year.[5] According to Shearer, after graduating, he had "a very serious agenda going on, and it was 'Stay Out Of The Draft'."[5] He attended graduate school at Harvard University for one year and worked at the state legislature in Sacramento. In 1967 and 1968 he was a high school teacher, teaching English and social studies. He left teaching following "disagreements with the administration."[5]

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean.[8] The group consisted of "a bunch of newsmen" at KRLA 1110, "the number two station" in Los Angeles.[6] They wanted to do more than just straight news, so they hired comedians who were talented vocalists. Shearer heard about it from a friend so he brought over a tape to the station and nervously gave it to the receptionist. By the time he got home, there was a message on his answering machine asking, "Can you come to work tomorrow?"[6] The group's radio show was canceled in 1970 by KRLA and in 1971 by KPPC-FM, so they started performing in various clubs and concert venues.[5] While at KRLA, Shearer also interviewed Creedence Clearwater Revival for the Pop Chronicles music documentary.[9] The group broke up 1976 when Lander and McKean left to perform in the sitcom Laverne & Shirley.[5] Shearer started working with Albert Brooks, producing one of Brooks' albums and co-writing the film Real Life. Shearer also started writing for Martin Mull's television series Fernwood 2 Night.[5] In the mid-1970s, he started working with Rob Reiner on a pilot for ABC. The show, which starred Christopher Guest, Tom Leopold and McKean, was not picked up.[5]

Saturday Night Live

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast,[6] and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.[10] Al Franken recommended Shearer to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.[11] Shearer describes his experience on the show as a "living hell" and "not a real pleasant place to work."[10] He did not get along well with the other writers and cast members and states that he was not included with the cast in the opening montage, and that Lorne Michaels had told the rest of the cast that he was just a writer.[12] His first tenure on the show ended when Michaels left Saturday Night Live, taking the entire cast with him.[13]

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live. All three members were offered the chance to join to the show in the 1984–1985 season. Shearer accepted because he was treated well by the producers and he thought the backstage environment had improved[10] but later stated that he "didn't realize that guests are treated better than the regulars."[14] Guest also accepted the offer while McKean rejected it. Dick Ebersol, who replaced Lorne Michaels as the show's producer, said that Shearer was "a gifted performer but a pain in the butt. He's just so demanding on the preciseness of things and he's very, very hard on the working people. He's just a nightmare-to-deal-with person."[15] In January 1985, Shearer left the show for good.[10] Martin Short said "[Shearer] wanted to be creative and Dick [Ebersol] wanted something else. [...] I think he felt his voice wasn't getting represented on the show. When he wouldn't get that chance, it made him very upset."[16]

Spinal Tap

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Harry Shearer as Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.[6] Shearer, Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest received a deal to write a first draft of a screenplay for a company called Marble Arch. They decided that the film could not be written and instead filmed a 20 minute demo of what they wanted to do.[10] It was eventually greenlit by Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio at Embassy Pictures.[10] The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rockumentaries of the time. The three core members of the band Spinal Tap—David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel—were portrayed by McKean, Shearer and Guest respectively. The three actors play their musical instruments and speak with mock English accents throughout the film. There was no script, although there was a written breakdown of most of the scenes, and many of the lines were ad-libbed.[10] It was filmed in 25 days.[10]

Shearer said in an interview that "The animating impulse was to do rock 'n' roll right. The four of us had been around rock 'n' roll and we were just amazed by how relentlessly the movies got it wrong. Because we were funny people it was going to be a funny film, but we wanted to get it right."[2] When they tried to sell it to various Hollywood studios, they were told that the film would not work. The group kept saying, "No, this is a story that's pretty familiar to people. We're not introducing them to anything they don't really know," so Shearer thought it would at least have some resonance with the public.[6] The film was only a modest success upon its initial release but found greater success, and a cult following, after its video release. In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema[17] and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[18]

Shearer, Guest and McKean have since worked on several projects as their Spinal Tap characters. The band has released two albums: This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Break Like the Wind (1992).[19] In 1992, Spinal Tap appeared in an episode of The Simpsons called "The Otto Show."[20] In 2009, The Guardian reported that the band would release a new album, Back From The Dead, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of the film[21] and the band announced a one date "world tour" performing at London's Wembley Arena on June 30, 2009.[22] The band has played several concerts, including at Live Earth in London on July 7, 2007. In anticipation of the concert, Rob Reiner directed a short film entitled Spinal Tap.[23]

The Simpsons

Shearer may be best known for his prolific work as a voice actor on The Simpsons. Matt Groening, the creator of the show, was a fan of Shearer's work, while Shearer was a fan of a column Groening used to write.[24] Shearer was asked if he wanted to be in the series, but he was initially reluctant because he thought it would be too much trouble.[24] After three calls, executive producer James L. Brooks managed to convince Shearer to join the cast.[2] Shearer's first impression of The Simpsons was that it was funny. Shearer, who thought it was a "pretty cool" way to work, found it peculiar that the members of the cast were adamant about not being known to the public as the people behind the voices.[6]

Shearer provides voices for Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Principal Skinner, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, Dr. Marvin Monroe and many others.[25] He describes all of his regular characters' voices as "easy to slip into. [...] I wouldn't do them if they weren't easy."[24] Shearer modeled Mr. Burns's voice on the two actors Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan.[26] Shearer said that Burns is the most difficult character for him to voice because it is rough on his vocal cords and he often needs to drink tea and honey to soothe his voice.[27] He describes Burns as his favorite character, saying he "like[s] Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil."[28] Shearer is also the voice of Burns' assistant Smithers, and is able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take.[29] Ned Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but because Shearer used "such a sweet voice" for him, Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to over Homer.[30] Dr. Marvin Monroe's voice is based on psychiatrist David Viscott.[31] Monroe has been retired since the seventh season because voicing the character strained Shearer's throat.[32]

In 2004, Shearer criticized what he perceived as the show's declining quality: "I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season Four looks very good to me now."[1] Shearer has also been vocal about "The Principal and the Pauper" (season nine, 1997) one of the most controversial episodes of The Simpsons. Many fans and critics reacted negatively to the revelation that Principal Seymour Skinner, a recurring character since the first season, was an impostor. The episode has been criticized by both Shearer and Groening. In a 2001 interview, Shearer recalled that after reading the script, he told the writers, "That's so wrong. You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience."[33] Shearer decided not to participate in The Simpsons Ride, which opened in 2008, so none of his characters have vocal parts and many do not appear in the ride at all.[34]

Until 1998, Shearer was paid $30,000 per episode. During a pay dispute in 1998, Fox threatened to replace the six main voice actors with new actors, going as far as preparing for casting of new voices.[35] The dispute, however, was resolved and Shearer received $125,000 per episode until 2004, when the voice actors demanded that they be paid $360,000 an episode.[35] The dispute was resolved a month later,[36] and Shearer's pay rose to $250,000 per episode.[37] After salary re-negotiations in 2008, the voice actors now receive $400,000 per episode.[38]

Le Show and radio work

Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that — having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] — I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

—Harry Shearer[39]

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW. The program is a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy that takes aim at the "mega morons of the mighty media".[40] It is carried on many National Public Radio and other public radio stations throughout the United States.[41] Since the merger of the XM and Sirius satellite radio services the program is no longer available on either.[42] The show has also been made available as a podcast on iTunes.[43] On the weekly program Shearer alternates between DJing, reading and commenting on the news of the day after the manner of Mort Sahl, and performing original (mostly political) comedy sketches and songs. In 2008, Shearer released a music CD called Songs of the Bushmen, consisting of his satirical numbers about former President George W. Bush on Le Show.[2] Shearer believes that he criticizes both Republicans and Democrats equally, and believes that "the iron law of doing comedy about politics is you make fun of whoever is running the place"[44] and that "everyone else is just running around talking. They are the ones who are actually doing something, changing people's lives for better or for worse. Other people the media calls 'satirists' don't work that way."[45]

Since encountering satellite news feeds when he worked on Saturday Night Live, Shearer has been fascinated with the contents of the video that does not air. Shearer refers to these clips as found objects. “I thought, wow, there is just an unending supply of this material, and it’s wonderful and fascinating and funny and sometimes haunting — but it’s always good,” said Shearer.[46] He collects this material and uses it on Le Show[47][48] and on his website.[49] In 2008, he assembled video clips of newsmakers from this collection into an art installation titled "The Silent Echo Chamber" which was exhibited at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[46] In 2006 Shearer appeared with Brian Hayes in four episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Not Today, Thank You, playing Nostrils, a man so ugly he cannot stand to be in his own presence.[50] He was originally scheduled to appear in all six episodes but had to withdraw from recording two due to a problem with his work permit.[51]

On June 19, 2008, it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.[52] The date of the ceremony where his star will be put in place has yet to be announced.[53]

Further career

In 2002, Shearer directed his first feature film Teddy Bears' Picnic, which he also wrote. The plot is based on Bohemian Grove, which hosts a three-week encampment of some of the most powerful men in the world. The film was not well-received by critics. It garnered a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with all 19 reviews being determined as negative[54] and received a rating of 32 out of 100 (signifying "generally negative reviews") on Metacritic from 10 reviews.[55] In 2003, he co-wrote J. Edgar! The Musical with Tom Leopold, which spoofed J. Edgar Hoover's relationship with Clyde Tolson.[56] It premiered at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado and starred Kelsey Grammer and John Goodman.[57]

In 2003, Shearer, Guest and McKean starred in the folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind, portraying a band called The Folksmen. The film was written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by Guest.[6] Shearer had a major role in the Guest-directed parody of Oscar politicking For Your Consideration in 2006. He played Victor Allan Miller, a veteran actor who is convinced that he is going to be nominated for an Academy Award.[58] He also appeared as a news anchor in Godzilla with fellow The Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria.[59] His other film appearances include The Right Stuff, Portrait of a White Marriage, The Fisher King, The Truman Show, EdTV and Small Soldiers.[60]

Shearer has also worked as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, but decided that it "became such a waste of time to bother with it."[45] His columns have also been published in Slate and Newsweek.[61] Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.[60] Shearer has written three books. Man Bites Town, published in 1993, is a collection of columns that he wrote for The Los Angeles Times between 1989 and 1992.[33] Published in 1999, It's the Stupidity, Stupid analyzed the hatred some people had for then-President Bill Clinton.[62] Shearer writes that Clinton became disliked because he had an affair with "the least powerful, least credentialed women cleared into his official compound."[33] His most recent book is Not Enough Indians, his first novel. Published in 2006, it is a comic novel about Native Americans and gambling.[60] Without the "pleasures of collaboration" and "spontaneity and improvisation which characterize his other projects", Not Enough Indians was a "struggle" for Shearer to write. He said that "the only fun thing about it was having written it. It was lonely, I had no deal for it and it took six years to do. It was a profoundly disturbing act of self-discipline."[2]

Personal life

Shearer married Penelope Nichols in 1974. They divorced in 1977. He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993.[2] In 2005, the couple launched their own record label called Courgette Records.[63] Shearer has homes in both Santa Monica, California and the Faubourg Marigny of New Orleans, Louisiana. He first came to New Orleans in 1988, and often attends the been to every edition of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.[64] Shearer often speaks and writes about the Hurricane Katrina disaster, belittling the coverage of it in the mainstream media[65] and criticizing the role of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.[66][67]

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars Boy Uncredited
The Robe David Uncredited
1977 American Raspberry Trucker's friend
Cracking Up Various characters Credited as part of "The Credibility Gap"
1979 Real Life Pete Also co-writer
The Concorde ... Airport '79 Jeffrey Marx Uncredited
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh Murray Sports
1980 Animalympics Keen Hacksaw
Loose Shoes Narrator
One Trick Pony Bernie Wepner
1983 The Right Stuff NASA Recruiter
1984 This Is Spinal Tap Derek Smalls Also co-writer, composer and musician
1987 Flicks Narrator
1988 Plain Clothes Simon Feck
My Stepmother Is an Alien Voice of Carl Sagan
1990 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Announcer Short film
1991 Blood and Concrete Sammy Rhodes
Oscar Guido Finucci
Pure Luck Monosoff
The Fisher King Ben Starr
1992 A League of Their Own Newsreel announcer
1993 Wayne's World 2 Handsome Dan
1994 I'll Do Anything Audience Research Captain
Little Giants Announcer Littbarski
Speechless Chuck
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding Jonathan P.F. Ritt
Waiting for Guffman N/A Composer
1998 Godzilla Charles Caiman
Almost Heroes Narrator
The Truman Show Mike Michaelson
Small Soldiers Punch-It
1999 EDtv Moderator
Encounter in the Third Dimension Narrator
Dick G. Gordon Liddy
2000 Catching Up with Marty DiBergi Derek Smalls Short film
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big Additional voice
2001 Haiku Tunnel Orientation leader
Out There Dr. Gerard
Haunted Castle Mr. D
Mephisto
2002 Teddy Bears' Picnic Joey Lavin Also writer, director and executive producer
2003 A Mighty Wind Mark Shubb
2005 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Promo announcer
Chicken Little Dog announcer
2006 For Your Consideration Victor Allan Miller
2007 A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser Marc Gavin
The Simpsons Movie Various characters

Television

Year Series Role Notes
1953, 1955 The Jack Benny Program Jack Benny, as a child
Harry Beaver 		Episode 4.2: "Jack as a Child"
Episode 5.12: "Jack Takes the Beavers to the Fair"
1955 It's a Great Life Terry Episode 2.4: "The Paper Drive"
Death Valley Days Unnamed character Episode 4.2: "The Valencia Cake"
1956 Private Secretary Chuckie Willis Episode 4.16: "The Little Caesar of Bleecker Street"
1957 General Electric Theater Timmy Episode 5.28: "Cab Driver"
Leave It to Beaver Frankie Bennett Pilot: "It's a Small World"
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Street Kid Episode 2.31: "The Night the World Ended"
1976 Serpico Hippy TV film/Pilot: "The Deadly Game"
1976-1982 Laverne & Shirley Various characters Appeared in six episodes;
also co-wrote episode 1.12: "Hi, Neighbor"
1978 Disco Beaver from Outer Space N/A Co-wrote
1979 The T.V. Show Various characters Pilot; also writer, producer and composer
1979-80, 1984-85 Saturday Night Live Various characters Appeared in 32 episodes;
also co-wrote 39 episodes
1981 Likely Stories, Vol. 1 Various characters TV film; also co-wrote
1982 Million Dollar Infield Jack Savage TV film
1985 The History of White People in America Rabbi TV film; also director
1986 Viva Shaf Vegas Rabbi TV film; also director, writer and executive producer
The History of White People in America: Volume II Rabbi TV film; also director
Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House Additional voice Pilot/TV special
1987 Spitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show Additional voice TV special
Down and Out with Donald Duck Additional voices TV special
1988 Portrait of a White Marriage Unnamed character TV film; also director
Miami Vice FBI Agent Timothy Anderson Episode 4.12: "The Cows of October"
Merrill Markoe's Guide to Glamorous Living Unnamed character TV special
1989- The Simpsons Various characters Longest-running role
1990 The Golden Girls George H. W. Bush Episode 5.26: "The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2"
Hometown Boy Makes Good Unnamed character TV film
Murphy Brown Chris Bishop Episode 3.1: "The 390th Broadcast"
1991 Sunday Best Various characters
1993 Dream On Steve Episode 4.6: "Home Sweet Homeboy"
L.A. Law Gordon Huyck Episode 8.6: "Safe Sex"
Animaniacs Ned Flat Episode 1.40: "Fair Game/Puppet Rulers"
1994 Ellen Ted Episode 2.9: "The Trainer"
1995 Sliders Radio DJ Episode 1.1: "Pilot"; uncredited
Friends Dr. Baldharar Episode 1.21: "The One with the Fake Monica"
The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show Mr. Blackwell TV special
Frontline Larry Hadges Episode 2.10: "Changing the Face of Current Affairs"
1996 State of the Union: Undressed Newt Gingrich TV special
Chicago Hope Nowhere man Episode 3.7: "A Time to Kill"
1997 Tracey Takes On... Ronald Littleman Episode 2.12: "Race Relations"
ER John Smythe Episode 3.19: "Calling Dr. Hathaway"
The Visitor Louis Faraday Episode 1.1: "Fear of Flying"
1998 George & Leo Unnamed character Episode 1.17: "The Poker Game"
1999 Seven Days Walter Landis Episode 1.19: "EBE's"
Just Shoot Me! Larry Fenwick Episode 4.1: "A Divorce to Remember"
1999-2001 Jack & Jill Dr. Wilfred Madison Appeared in four episodes
2000-2001 Dawson's Creek Principal Peskin Episodes 4.8: "The Unusual Suspects" and 4.22: "The Graduate"
2001 That's Life Dean Episode 2.9: "Oh, Baby!"
2002 The Agency The President Episode 1.14: "The Gauntlet"
2003 MADtv Mark Shubb Episode 8.21

Video games

Year Game Role
1996 Blazing Dragons Sir Burnevere, Sir George's Valet
1996 The Simpsons Cartoon Studio Various characters
1997 Virtual Springfield Various characters
1998 StarCraft Science Vessel
2001 The Simpsons Wrestling Various characters
2001 The Simpsons Road Rage Various characters
2002 The Simpsons Skateboarding Various characters
2003 The Simpsons Hit & Run Various characters
2005 Chicken Little Dog announcer
2007 The Simpsons Game Various characters

Discography

See also: The Simpsons discography and Spinal Tap § Discography
Album Released Label
It Must Have Been Something I Said 1994 Rhino
Dropping Anchors 2006 Courgette
Songs Pointed and Pointless 2007 Courgette
Songs of the Bushmen 2008 Courgette

Bibliography

  • Shearer, Harry (1993). Man Bites Town. St Martins Press. ISBN 0-312-08842-6.
  • Shearer, Harry (1999). It's the Stupidity, Stupid : Why (Some) People Hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch (Library of Contemporary Thought). Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-43401-3.
  • Shearer, Harry (2006). Not Enough Indians. Justin, Charles and Company. ISBN 1-932112-46-4.

Awards

Shearer is the only one of the six regular voice actors from The Simpsons not to have won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.[68]

Year Award Category Series/album Result Ref.
1978 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series America 2Night Nominated [69]
1980 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program Saturday Night Live Nominated [69]
2008 Grammy Award Best Comedy Album Songs Pointed and Pointless Nominated [70]
2009 Grammy Award Best Comedy Album Songs of the Bushmen Nominated [46]

Notes

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  2. ^ a b c d e f Round, Simon (October 10, 2008). "Interview: Harry Shearer". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  3. ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (2002-03-28). "Shearer Enjoyment". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  4. ^ Eskenazi, Joe (2006-12-01). "j. - 'Hi-diddly-ho, Marin!' Man of many voices Harry Shearer comes to JCC". Jewish Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Plume, Kenneth (2000-02-10). "Interview with Harry Shearer (Part 1 of 4)". IGN. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Rabin, Nathan (April 23, 2003). "Harry Shearer". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
  7. ^ "Chronicle Podcasts : New Orleans economy stillborn, says Harry Shearer". San Francisco Chronicle. 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  8. ^ Deming, Mark. "The Credibility Gap". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  9. ^ Gilliland, John. "Index to Interviews". Pop Chronicles. Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Plume, Kenneth (2000-02-10). "Interview with Harry Shearer (Part 2 of 4)". IGN. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  11. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 170
  12. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 171
  13. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 176
  14. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 261
  15. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 260
  16. ^ Shales & Miller 2002, p. 288
  17. ^ "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs". American Film Institute. 2000-06-14. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  18. ^ "Films Selected to The National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1989-2008". Library of Congress. 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  19. ^ "Spinal Tap: Discography". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
  20. ^ Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "The Otto Show". BBC. Retrieved 2009-05-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Michaels, Sean (2009-02-04). "Spinal Tap to return with new album". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  22. ^ "Spinal Tap announce 'world tour'". BBC News. 2009-04-06. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  23. ^ "Spinal Tap reunite". The Age. 2007-04-26. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  24. ^ a b c Plume, Kenneth (2000-02-10). "Interview with Harry Shearer (Part 3 of 4)". IGN. Retrieved 2009-04-30.
  25. ^ Richmond, pp. 178–179
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