Shearer was down the road the member of Los Angeles radio comedy group The Credibility Gap, 1968–1974, and regular in Saturday Night Live in the 1979–1980 and 1984–1985 seasons. Shearer co-created, co-wrote & co-starred within Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap with Michael McKean and Christopher Guest; the ternary of the two likewise collaborated on the acclaimed 2003 spoof A Mighty Wind, which was written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by Guest.

Shearer's television function besides includes ii specials for Cinemax, "It's Just TV", & "This Week Indoors" (co-created using Merrill Markoe) & "The Magic of Live". He directed a entire six-episode HBO series, "The History of White People in America", co-created by Martin Mull and Allen Rucker, when well as them-hour feature finale of the series, "Portrait of a White Marriage". He as well co-wrote & directed Paul Shaffer's fantasy favorite for HBO, "Viva Shaf Vegas" (by having Shaffer & Tom Leopold). His number 1 theatrical feature, which he wrote & directed, was "Teddy Bears' Picnic", a dark comedy loosely according to a workings of Bohemian Grove, the secret retreat of the elite group.

Shearer has 2 books published, "Man Bites Town" (the collection of his Los Angeles Days Magazine columns) & "It's the Stupidity, Stupid". When of 2005, he is finishing act in the laughable novel all about Indigen Americans & play known as "Not Enough Indians". [http://www.audiobookstoday.com/FtrLst.cfm?FtrCatCod=1&Code=980]

Shearer is probably better known for his prolific operate as a voice actor on The Simpsons (1989 to date), where he does a voices of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, and Principal Seymour Skinner, among others. He was one of triplet Simpsons vocalists to guest star on the show Friends; the more 2 were Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.

Since 1983 Shearer has been the persons of the public radio comedy/music program Le Show on NPR. He is the regular announcer for TV Land and, since mid-2004, for KIRO-AM radio in Seattle. Since Might 2005 he's been a contributive blogger at The Huffington Post. Shearer has zero in two Santa Monica, California and the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Based in datthe from a telephone call for on Ask Mr. KABC, his house survived Hurricane Katrina and he is alive and well.

Since 1993, Shearer has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen.

Filmography

Chicken Little (2005) (filming) A Mighty Wind (2003) Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002) Haunted Castle (2001) Out There (2001) Haiku Tunnel (2001) Catching Up with Marty DiBergi (2000) (V) Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (2000) Dick (1999) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) Encounter in the Thrid Dimension (1999) Edtv (1999) Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) The Truman Show (1998) Almost Heroes (1998) Godzilla (1998) My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) State of the Union: Undressed (1996) (TV) Blazing Dragons (1996) (VG) The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show (1995) (TV) Sliders (1995) (TV) (uncredited) The News Hole (1995) TV Series Speechless (1994) Little Giants (1994) I'll Do Anything (1994) Wayne's World 2 (1993) Comic Relief: Baseball Relief '93 (1993) (TV) A League of Their Own (1992) Spinal Tap: Break Like the Wind - The Videos (1992) (V) (when Derek Smalls) The Fisher King (1991) Blood and Concrete (1991) Pure Luck (1991) Oscar (1991/I) Sunday Best (1991) TV Series Hometown Boy Makes Good (1990) (TV) The Simpsons (1989 - present) My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) Plain Clothes (1988) Portrait of a White Marriage (1988) Spaceballs (1987) (uncredited) Spitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show (1987) (TV) Flicks (1987) (voice) The History of White People in America: Volume II (1986) (TV) Spitting Image: Down and Out in the White House (1986) (TV) Viva Shaf Vegas (1986) (TV) The History of White People in America (1985) (TV) This Is Spinal Tap (1984) The Right Stuff (1983) Million Dollar Infield (1982) (TV) "Likely Stories, Vol. 1" (1981) TV Series One Trick Pony (1980) Loose Shoes (1980) Animalympics (1980) "Saturday Night Live" (1979-1980, 1984-1985) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) The T.V. Show (1979) (TV) Real Life (1979) Cracking Up (1977) American Raspberry (1977) Serpico: The Deadly Game (1976) (TV) The Jack Benny Program (1955) (guest voice) TV Series - Harry Beaver The Jack Benny Program (1953) (guest voice) TV Series - Jack as a Child The Robe (1953) (uncredited) Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) (uncredited)

Books by Harry Shearer
(1993) Human Bites Town. St Martins Pr. ISBN 0312088426. (1999) ''It's a Stupidity, Dullard : How come (A bit of) Population Hate Clinton & How come a Rest of Me Use at times to Watch over (Library of Coeval Thought)''. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0345434013.