Harry Shearer News

With the release of the movie Pirate Radio happening this week, and all of the crazy trailer footage of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Nighy and Nick Frost as loose cannon radio personalities in the swingin' 60s, we got to thinking about our favorite fictitious DJs in movie history, and decided to make a little list of them all.

It Ain't Me. Babe. Musician-band leader Paul Shaffer answered almost all of my questions during a recent hour-long interview to promote his memoir "We'll Be Here For The Rest of Our Lives " [Flying Dolphin/Doubleday, $26] with one exception.

Bongo Comics After a near death experience, Montgomery Burns worries what will happen when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil.

Images of TV talking heads in candid and sometimes-awkward silence form the basis of a new video installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

In 10 Words or Less None more entertaining Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Basically anything these three do Likes: Concert films Dislikes: When DVDs aren't in Dobly Hates: Stuff these three aren't involved in The Show I'll say right off the bat that this is probably going to be one of my least biased reviews to date.

The goal of the New Orleans in the News blog has been to highlight occasions when the national media has decided to shine its spotlight on Louisiana, New Orleans or its citizens.

Spinal Tapper, voice of The Simpsons , Huffington Post blogger and all-around advocate for New Orleans, Harry Shearer continues his quest for multimedia domination.

In the latest installment of our Motley Fool Conversations podcast, I spoke with Harry Shearer, author-satirist-actor-entrepreneur and the man behind the voices of over 20 characters on The Simpsons .

A popular YouTube clip of a group of Lego characters playing a song made famous by the satirical rock legends Spinal Tap, has been banned from use in an anniversary DVD.

Efforts to accurately explain to the nation what happened in New Orleans on Aug.

NOTE: Tom Roche was the editor on "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," the cartoon parody that was the basis of what eventually became known as Cartoon Network's late night entertainment block, Adult Swim.

Rising Tide organizers believe an appearance by part-time New Orleanian Harry Shearer, an avid blogger about New Orleans, will expand interest in the fourth annual conference.

THE ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN: The Mad Genius of Comics by Dennis Kitchen and Paul Buhle, introduction by Harry Shearer; Abrams Comic Arts, 240 pages .

There's an interesting statistic about New Orleans that gets lost in the image of bars, street parades and Popeye's fried chicken outlets.

Sorry, we don't do sexy "singles" in this column. Just long-playing albums and music videos.

The subtitle to Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle's The Art of Harvey Kurtzman , ''The Mad Genius of Comics,'' plays off artist-writer Kurtzman's creation of MAD magazine, but it doesn't work as a pun; there was nothing crazy about Kurtzman.

Rock and roll is so ridiculous, so over the top in its guitar anthem theatrics, that it should be a staple in the comedy canon.

Seventeen years after his castmates from " The Simpsons " won the first Emmys awarded for voice-over performances, Harry Shearer has finally earned a nomination.

Rob Reiner Son of comic genius Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner has picked up the family torch and directed some of the most memorable, quotable, and endearing comedies of the last two decades, and he's no schmuck when it comes to dramas either.

I'm not old enough to remember the 70's SNL. I vote 90's by default. Some credit is due to the 84-85 season with rent-a-stars Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer.