Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Sheareris an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, author, radio host, director and producer. He is known for his long-running roles 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. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth23 December 1943
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see what they're going to do. It has to contain where you are, and how many people are there, and what they do, and what time of day it is, and what time of year it is.
Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.
As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around A Mighty Wind. It really was a wonderful eight years.
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.
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.
I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.
I told a different disgusting joke with the same setup and a different punch line, ... I'm hoping that's in the DVD.
You can never expect a movie to have a life that lasts this long, really.
The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.
That's why the good Lord invented the Internet,
You sit around as an artist and think, 'I can do this better than these guys,' whatever the record company isn't doing at the moment. So somebody called our bluff and said, 'OK, you're the record company.
I'd been freelance writing all this time, and I then got involved in a radio broadcast which was a series of satirical newscasts every day.
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.