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Harry Shearer

lines on the record: 67
first: 2015-09-04
most recent: 2015-09-04
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Effort money is the best money. But you know what I mean? There's a certain. Envy that the executives have of the people who supposedly have all. Of”
2015-09-04 · Masters in Business · The Many Voices of Harry Shearer: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's more than that. It's the egos of guys who are in a business where people are getting adored and revered and they're sitting there going, oh, I'm doing this making effing money. I hate these people.”
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“The grind, the fact that if you're in show business, many of us, because it's something you love and you have to do it, that's the other thing I say to kids is don't get into this if you think, well, this would be nice. Get into it if you have to do it because that will be the basis of your persistence. But because you love it, because you adore it, because you have to do it, you have given a rusty ice pick to the executives who run the business to scrape into your innards at any given moment. And that's the hard part. It's just, it's unrelenting. And until you get...”
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“I don't see the perspiration. I don't mean the work. The work comes easily because you have, one has perhaps a certain talent, but the survival, the weathering of the storms, the grime.”
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“If I weren't a stubborn SOB in continuing to do the radio show for no reason at all, for no money at all, Matt wouldn't have been a fan, and I wouldn't be sitting here going.”
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“And I don't think that's It's the real deal. I mean, I know so many brilliantly talented people in show business who haven't had that luck that I had to have Matt Greening be a fan of my radio show when they were doing the casting on the Simpsons. That's how it happened. That simple. Yeah.”
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“And boom, bam. Put the rest into the recycling. So I say talent is good, luck is better, but nothing beats sheer brute persistence.”
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“Well, many of them. I know. Many of them still are. I know. For as long as humanly possible. No, I always say this when I'm asked that question about Show Business because the business exists to find young talent, find the one specific thing that young talent can be narrowed down to, mind that as quickly as possible, as deeply as possible, and then throw it away, toss you to the curb before you know what you're doing.”
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“Cash twenty two when I was a kid was a profound, you know, it was like you're trying to think, am I crazy for thinking that this stuff is crazy? And here comes a guy saying, no, you're right, this is crazy. It was very powerful influence.”
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“That you can't do anywhere else. As a New Orleansian, I can't not cite a Confederacy of Dunces. Okay. A brilliant Fantasia about life in New Orleans captures so much of the craziness and the unpredictability Ah, the weird routines of life in that city is just a masterpiece”
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“Emma, tell me I'm wrong. This is you're the expert in this space. No, I wouldn't dare say you're wrong. The Looney Toons characters are unforgettable and timeless and genius inventions”
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“No, I mean, I was a fan. I couldn't help but be a fan of the greatest voice actor of his generation. I would say ever. Ever. Okay.”
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“Absolutely, you know, but if you're writing my life story, please don't. But if you're writing my life story, it would seem like the most obvious straight line from Mel Blank to. One of the most.”
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“So let's Mel Blanc was a member of the cast of the Jack Benny Show. And so Willy-Nilly, we were working together, and he had a son who was my same age. So I think he felt a sort of patterfamilius quality, not in the Catholic priest sense of the word. Okay. But very, very benign. But he never said, hey, kid, here's how you do voices or anything like that. Did it ever?”
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“Monetization. Yes, indeed. So quick fun. And the telecommunications act, which Bob Dole said was a $72 billion giveaway and was right.”
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“I know it's not a secret, but I would say most fans of Barack Obama have chosen to ignore it, to have forgotten it. Right. Yes, have chosen to forgotten it.”
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“He got that one right. Yes, he did. The only thing that's really changed for me is I've got a lot less fascination with the day-to-day machinations of current American politics because so much of it seems to be a shadow play these days. I mean, it's always, there's always some aspect of that. As the Democratic Party found that its major source of funding was being dried up as the union movement shrank. It was forced to turn to many of the same sources for money as the Republican Party. Exhibit A. Barack Obama's largest contributor in the 2008 election was Goldman Sachs.”
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“Mel Brooks did a whole movie about Hitler. You know, I mean, and a play. Yeah. One Freud said you make fun of the things you fear.”
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“Nobody else had made it. So I was raised by people who read the paper, talked about it all the time at dinner time. We paid a lot of attention to it.”
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“It colored my perspective on a couple of presidents who wanted my ass. Yeah. Okay. But no, I grew up in a political, in a family that was, my parents, as I mentioned, were European immigrants, so they had. They had serious reasons to pay attention to politics. I mean, the most life and death reasons imaginable. Sure.”
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“The base. But right now I'm working on a Christmas single, a charity Christmas single, so I'm getting a bunch of singers involved, and it's sort of a, it may be out this Christmas, hopefully. So I'm always working, and I write songs every once in a while for the radio show.”
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“You know, I used to say, much like my friends Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, I like doing it all. That's why I do it all. But there was one year, about five or six years ago, when it was about this time of year, and I realized, well, we did a spinal tap record, then I did some live gigs off of not the Greed and Fear record, but the one before that with great musicians. Then we did, Michael and Chris and I did a tour where we were going out touring as ourselves, but playing spinal tap music and folksman music. I thought, God, it's been eight months of doing nothing but music. I've never been happier.”
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“Lampoon, we could do this forever. This was not my suggestion this time around. It was proposed to me, and I thought, okay. That's a very nice suggestion.”
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“Never came up. Well, I suggested it at one point, and they said, No, we're fine. And so I dropped it. We're good. There's plenty of people.”
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“They're in charge of that. Now, this year I may be writing a script or two, so I may get more deeply involved in that process. Have you done that?”
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“And my feeling about in the old days Fox used to say how much or how quick time or how quickly we could do these shows, I would always say, yeah, if you've got the 20, 25, 30 years of experience that allows you to do it that quickly. If you want to hire a guy off the street, he'll take you two weeks to do it.”
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“This is But we don't get paid by the amount of time we work. We get paid one in show business gets paid by the amount of value we create”
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“Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, everywhere else. Discussion and a series of discussions with the show, which resulted satisfactorily in my return to the show. Both of us, I think, are satisfied with the result That was not about money. It is apparent that the guys who got in early got the lion's share of what was going on. And I don't mean the cast members. And there may not be anything more there at this point. So I have to be happy with what we got. Understood.”
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“Yeah, you know, the one thing that we in the cast, everybody in the cast tries to do is keep faith with the audience who's kept faith with us. They know these characters. We're kind of the institutional memory of the show. You're protective of it. It's a writer's show, as most television is, but we are protective of the characters. And I said, boy, you're not rewarding the audience for their years of attention. And, of course, that's now an episode that's never spoken of.”
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“Well, Dr. Marvin Moreau is more painful than that. Otto is kind of a trick, but Marvin Monroe was, he was written as a character. He was a family therapist, and the whole joke of his character was he was a guy who, far from being a healer, just made you stressed out from listening to him talk because he had such an irritating way of speaking. So that was the whole idea”
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“We'll talk about it. Anyway, so I just took that particular kind of nasality and sped him up and made him less avuncular and more sinister and turned him into Principal Skinner.”
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“I've done satirical takeoffs on this evangelist named Ernest Angely, who was a healer. So I took his voice and just changed it a little bit for Revan Lovejoy. And then Principal Skinner, I was really running out of intuitive leaps. And you may remember a guy who used to be on CBS named Charles Kiralt. Oh, of course. He was on the road. And he was on the road because he had a squeeze in Montana in a cabin.”
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“I do two characters on the show that years after the Christians were denouncing the show for Bart being a bad role model, they discovered that two of my characters were the only two professed Christians on American television primetime.”
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“Is 27. But so there was not an analytical process. That's what I try to impart. It's intuitive. There are only two people, only two characters that I do that had any Resonance with people I'd already done before or people in the real world. One was when they had me doing Revolve.”
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“It was just the immediate family, right? So there's this guy, there's this guy, there's this guy, there's this guy. I wouldn't see a drawing. I just have a one-line description. Old Meiser runs the nuclear power plant in the case of Mr. Burns. And I would make an intuitive leap as to how the person sounded. And I figured if they don't like the intuitive leap, they'll tell me to stop. And if they don't tell me to stop, I'll keep doing it. I didn't think I keep doing it for 27 years.”
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“The first couple of Sims seasons. No, I wasn't on the Tracy Oldman show. But when I came to the Simpsons, and we would start, you know, I would start doing characters. They'd start sending me scripts. You're this guy. You're this guy.”
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“Childhood. I'm trying to. I would see these scripts. We would never see the in the early days, never see the drawings of the characters, so we had no idea what they looked like in the borning stages. When you said”
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“I should have. But, you know. I couldn't say with any degree of certainty. It may have been written, it may have been an ad lib, it may have been an ad lib that then the writers expanded upon or may have been something written that I expanded upon.”
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“I couldn't even answer that question. No kidding. Yeah, I mean, you know, in the beginnings of stuff, you don't really keep, or I don't, I don't keep a diary. I wasn't taking notes. I wasn't keeping score. Oh, this is mine. I'm owning this. Right.”
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“Yeah, you know, I've read that and I have no memory of that. If that ain't an urban legend, I live in Big City. Really? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it may have happened. I couldn't swear either way, but it's out of my can. I just remember being handed a script and saying, you're this guy.”
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“No, although they brought him back last season, they brought him back from the dead. No, Burns is fine. The only time I had problems with doing him was when we were doing video games, and I'd be doing Mr. Burns for four consecutive hours. And the only direction I'd get was louder”
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“Well, Cat 5 is not, yeah, I mean, Miami, every city on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast is susceptible to a Category 5 hurricane. That's not the issue. But New Orleans, if a lesser hurricane comes by with very heavy rainfall in the next two or three years, there might be a problem.”
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“Yes, sir. Do I feel fine because I live in this part of the city that did not flood in 2005. It's called the Sliver by the River. It's by the Mississippi. It's the highest ground in New Orleans. If I look at the system that at a taxpayer cost of $14 billion has been built by the same people who built the last one And I read what the educated people, knowledgeable people say about it, which is it was built to a lower standard than the one that failed. So you got nothing.”
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“This was a widespread system so-called. The Corps of Engineers itself admitted, or the head of it admitted at one point, this was a system in name only. It had been built over 40 years. It had never been completed.”
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“No, they were warning about what would happen to New Orleans if a Category 5 hurricane hit the city. Those were all the predictions this city is in big trouble if I category five hurricane hit the city. Two things. Katrina wasn't a category five hurricane by the time it went in the vicinity of New Orleans. It was a strong one or a weak category two, that's according to the National Curricane Center's final report. And two, it didn't hit the city. It went 35 miles in the northeast. So this was not the widely foreseen disaster that people had foretold.”
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“I don't say it. I bring you the people from two universities, UC Berkeley and Louisiana State, who organized independent investigations, much of it pro bono work, lasting months and months. They did all the forensics, they did all the literally deep digging, and they came up with remarkably Identical conclusions that in the words of the co-author of the Berkeley report, this was the greatest man-made engineering catastrophe since Chernobyl that had the so-called protective system worked as advertised, a system that the federal government built for New Orleans via the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after the 1965 hurricane, the worst Katrina would have inflicted on New Orleans would have been, quote, wet ankles. That's pretty much.”
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“This was in the 92 when our second record came out, Break Lake Lake Lake Like the Wind. I just like saying break like the will. Of course.”
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“We had it at the LA Coliseum just because its capacity was 93,300 people showed up. And the drummer for Fleetwood Mac came in an asbestos.”
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“I think we'll just get a machine. We bought a drum machine, but it exploded. So I don't know what we're going to do. Yeah, I think we'll get some drummers. We once had drummer auditions for Spinal Tap.”
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“In his voice. I'm in the middle of a Derek Small solo album project as we speak. I've been writing the songs and doing demo versions of them. And my producer and I are working on getting together and getting an all-star band together to play them.”
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