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Four years ago, Harry Shearer took a stand on behalf of his voice cast for The Simpsons as the dominating animated sitcom for FOX. This year, Shearer’s stance in contract negotiations is leaving the 71-year-old on the outside looking in when The Simpsons continues for seasons 27 and 28 without him. …
“Mazel Tina!” That’s an appropriate title for the episode that won Bob’s Burgers its first Emmy Award over the weekend. Harry Shearer, long known but never properly celebrated for his voice work on The Simpsons, also earned his first individual Emmy during the Creative Emmys ceremonies, held separately a week …
Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned. Today today, you can watch comedian, actor and satirist Harry Shearer faithfully and comedically re-enacted this tragic moment in American political history. Here is the relevant excerpt from Shearer’s TV series, Nixon’s The One, which aired earlier this year on Sky Arts …
As the Carnival Triumph cruise ship endured a slow-tow across the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following several days stranded at sea after losing power, comedians jumped aboard the Twitter joke parade — not to make fun of the passengers, per se, but to note that one of them was …
As Tropical Storm Issac threatens to hit New Orleans as a hurricane on the seventh anniversary that Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and region, it’d be wise to note that resident/satirist/musician Harry Shearer has a film you should watch, The Big Uneasy. Shearer — famous for his voice-work on The …
That was fast. A couple of days after we learned how much cash FOX and News Corp. could bank by canceling The Simpsons, and just hours after voice actor Harry Shearer published his own statement willing to negotiate, the entire cast and the show agreed to a new two-year deal …
Harry Shearer, who has provided many voices for The Simpsons over its 23 seasons — including Charles Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders, and Principal Skinner, among others — has released this statement regarding tense negotiations over pay cuts and the future of the series. It reads as follows: For many years …
Over at Collectors Weekly, they’ve dug deep into the archives of fake vomit. Or rather, they talked to Stan and Mardi Timm, who collect novelty and gag items, and chronicle them online at Timm Stuff. The Timms told Collectors Weekly all about their knowledge of fake barf and vomit novelties, …
Demand has been so strong for "Unwigged and Unplugged," the concert tour featuring Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean performing songs from both This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, that they've added a second date to their upcoming NYC appearances May 26-27 at the Beacon Theatre. Tickets …
For the 51st annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy went with a live, primetime announcement/mini-concert. But you want to know who got nominated, don't you? While putting American Idol's star judge Simon Cowell up for Record of the Year (he produced "Bleeding Love" for Leona Lewis along with Clive Davis …
