There is no Harry Shearer thread so I will start one

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Since he's currently the guest host blogger at TalkingPointsMemo. I actually feel a bit down about the fact that the guy has done so much and I feel like I've barely scraped the surface via Derek Smalls and his work on The Simpsons.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, hey. it's ok.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, bless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone listen to his radio show, Le Show?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

He is a dick IRL from personal observations as well as stories from my friend who works with him on the Simpsons.

He was a guest at a Tonight Show taping in 1994 (w/ Drew Barrymore & Pavement).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

...that I was at, he was not amusing at all.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

le show is ok its basically just him reading articles and doing a "bush talks to bush" bit then he plays like 2 really bad songs.

― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel my role in ILX is really like luke-warm water.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

If I touch you when I'm asleep I'll piss myself?

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

He's smart and can be funny -- I listened to Le Show when it was carried in NYC -- but he's mined the same veins a bit too often, and can be more clever than funny. Always loved his Rather and Brokaw impressions tho.

Extra credit for quitting SNL... twice.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yeah, the Rather and Brokaw impressions are pretty good. I like Le Show, usually just have it on the background and sort of half pay attention while I do laundry or whatever on Sunday nights. He's at his best when he's making fun of Hollywood / show-biz, I think. Chaki otm, the music can be pretty lame. and you get to hear "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" every week.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, i've heard what you say about him to be true.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 17 March 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Same here on the Scherer interactions. I've heard the same.

I have never told anyone how much Le Show disappoints me, so I'm going to take the opportunity to do so now.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, "Shearer"

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Take heart, C. You are among friends.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I desperately don't want to dislike the guy, though. He has his moments, not to mention all his excellent work with Christopher Guest. Perhaps he's like ye olde Dana Carvey: good in ensemble work, not so much solo.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Has anyone seen this guy's Katrina docu "The Big Uneasy"? I just read Roger Ebert's review of it, and I kind of can't believe it exists!

― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

OTOH I had no idea this guy ever did anything other than be a funny guy in front of a camera.

― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:35 (fourteen years ago)

For us New Orleans music nerds that's not news. He's had a place in the Big Easy for awhile and has been writing editorials online about the city for quite some time.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

But actually I've never seen his doc though

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Good WTF interview from a few weeks ago. Good match for Maron in cantankerousness, and good stories. Cautionary tale of always feeling you're the smartest guy in the room, but sometimes he probably was.

― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 26 April 2015 17:08 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

I think Harry Shearer just had a stroke on air. He was reading clippings on his public radio show, and he couldn't make the words out, and he went to music, repeating a record he'd played before, then the broadcast stopped. I certainly hope he had access to care in time.
— Robert Fiore (@shambalor) May 7, 2023

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:48 (three years ago)

Had an ocular migraine during the b’cast. Got checked out, all ok.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) May 7, 2023

― jaymc, Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:41 (three years ago)

Damn, that’s rough. I hope he’s okay.

He also seems the type to want to DJ as long as he is physically capable

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 8 May 2023 02:34 (three years ago)

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