So, first there’s the part where he’s every voice on The Simpsons then there’s the best guy in Spinal Tap then there’s some of the best moments of Saturday Night Live including the two perfect sketches he did with Martin Short (male synchronized swimming and the nervous lawyer talking to Mike Wallace). You know it was Harry Shearer who offered Jerry Lewis $10,000 to let him watch that terrible clown movie nobody’s allowed to see, right? And now he’s got a video art show of famous people just sitting there. I challenge you to provide me with one person who has more fantasticness under his belt (no dick jokes please).
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nixon was funny.
02.06.09 at 9:31 am
he’s the voice of Ned Flanders.
02.06.09 at 3:42 pm
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
02.06.09 at 4:01 pm
Somewhere between poignant and pointless.
02.06.09 at 5:31 pm
whaddaya mean “terrible clown movie????” it sounds like the greatest think ever made, like God created it for his own amusement and we’re left to forever wonder what it’s like.
(by “God” i don’t mean Jerry Lewis btw)
02.06.09 at 6:33 pm
Transfixing
02.06.09 at 6:36 pm
A Clown leading children into the gas chamber is easily worth ten grand to peep.
02.07.09 at 1:01 am
Didn’t even bother to watch it. I’ve NEVER liked harry Shearer. He BORES me.
02.08.09 at 1:20 pm
yeah sure, he’s funny as mr. burns or derek smalls but as himself hes just a boring old blowhard
02.08.09 at 5:01 pm
holy fucking shit yes, i love this guy so much. (nigel tuffnel was actually the best guy on spinal tap, but whatever)
this:
“… With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. “Oh My God!” — that’s all you can say. ”
Shearer also goes on to point out why Lewis would make the film: he believed “the Academy can’t ignore this.” Upon seeing the rough cut, he told Lewis the film was “terrible”, which reportedly made him furious. When asked to sum up the experience of the film overall, he responded by saying that the closest he could come was like “if you flew down to Tijuana and suddenly saw a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz. You’d just think ‘My God, wait a minute! It’s not funny, and it’s not good, and somebody’s trying too hard in the wrong direction to convey this strongly-held feeling.”
so awesome.
‘preciate the heads up.
02.08.09 at 5:51 pm
Le Show on KCRW is always the best thing in my iPod each week. Check it out if you’ve don’t already.
02.09.09 at 1:15 am