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Harry Shearer

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  1. “Mocumentary, so The actor is living in full. I was not. I was making my own movie at that time, which was a comedy about a lightly fictionalized comedy about the supposedly secret retreat of the richest, most powerful white men in America, the real one is called Bohemian Grove. The movie was called Teddy Bear's Picnic because if you go out in the woods today, you're in for big surprise.”

    2015-09-04 · Masters in Business · The Many Voices of Harry Shearer: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yes No, that just put it to all that did was pay a few people to go away so that the studios didn't have to open their books.”

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  3. “They all turned it down. Fortunately, Norman Lear was running embassy pictures for a few moments and picked it up. But by the way, since this is a financial show, I think it's important to say that despite all the success it's enjoyed, according to what we're being told officially, the film has not yet gone into profit.”

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  4. “Well, we had to pitch it to Hollywood Studios, all of whom turned it down. And what I would say to them is, look, everybody in the world in this. Rolling Stone has shoved every detail of rock and roll down their throats. This is not an unfamiliar story. This is a familiar story. 40 million people have taken guitar lessons. This will strike... So to speak. No pun intended. Accord. Sure.”

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  5. “I think there was one newspaper ad when the day had opened. All of the success has been self-marketed basically by fans telling each other word of mouth. It's a classic word of mouth story.”

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  6. “Filler. I can tell you one thing about Spinal Tap. It is probably in the annals of relatively successful movies, the only self-marketed one. Really? Nobody ever spent a dime on marketing. You never saw a billboard for that movie. You never saw a television movie. I saw a poster.”

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  7. “And then we had all these really funny people coming in to do other parts. Billy Crystal, Fred Drescher, Fred Willard. Fred Willer is the one who challenged us to not laugh. I mean, it was almost impossible when Fred Willard came in. He is from another galaxy. You just can't fathom where this stuff comes from, and he's relentless, and his energy is just overpowering. So that was really the challenge was not to laugh during Fred scenes. But yeah, it was great fun. We'd have about three or four takes maximum, and then it's rolling on.”

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  8. “That's correct. But even with that alleged talent to do it in television would take a lot more people and a lot more money and a lot more time. So radio is something I can do while I'm doing the rest of my life.”

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  9. “Was a storyteller on the radio, again, just by himself in his studio. And then Paul Harvey, the legendary news broadcaster, who again sat in a studio. Talking to the audience personally, it wasn't a big show anymore, but it was this incredibly powerful fifteen minutes of radio. And I became aware of how easy it is to paint pictures with radio. I do satirical sketches on my radio show. And the work that I do to... Create a picture of Hillary and Bill talking or Obama. Richard Nixon, perhaps. Richard Nixon, or Trump with his advisors, would take a crew of 100 people on television, on radio. It takes me.”

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  10. “I love radio. It changed. And I was really profoundly influenced by a comedy team and a newscaster. The comedy team was Bob and Ray who worked in New York for 40 years together and really invented the modern way of doing radio, not on a big stage in front of an audience with an orchestra, but by themselves in a little studio. There was a third guy, too, Gene Shepard.”

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  11. “I was more aware of the fact that it was the end of a very specific era, the era of big-time network radio, because I started on Jack Benny's radio program and people were doing comedy programs and dramatic programs on the radio, like they still do in England. Interestingly enough, but all that was dying as I was entering it within a few years, Benny had added a television show and I migrated to that. And I saw these radio shows just sort of falling in the dust and the radio networks following.”

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  12. “What was that like? Well, Abbott wasn't there that day. I worked one day in Abbott and Costello go to Mars. Costello was nice. Basically, it was a binary world that a child actor exists in. Either they're nice or they're not nice. Okay. That's it. Yeah. Jack Benny was, Jack Benny was extraordinarily nice, and I knew him for eight years. I had a fairly special relationship with him, I thought.”

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  13. “She was the mother of a child actress, so she already knew people in the business, so she had contacts. I don't know if she went to the parents of all the kids that she taught or just to mine. That's lost in the mists of history or lack of history. But she did come to my parents and say, do you mind if I try to get Harry work? They were both immigrants from Eastern Europe. They thought this was phantasmagorical, and they'd never hear from her again. And then seven months go by, and finally she calls with an audition for the Jack Menny program. And I was a very good reader. And so I went in and just aced the first reading and got the job and worked for Jack Benny for eight years.”

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  14. “Yeah, I mean, everything I do, you know, even when I was making that very serious no jokes Documentary about why New Orleans flooded, I had an entertainer's clock working in my head. It's a nasty.”

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  15. “Grow up out there Well, started, I first went to New Orleans in 88 and then just kept going more and more often. And finally, my wife and I decided not to subsidize the hotel business there anymore and we bought a place in the mid-90s and then we bought our present huge spread. It's not a spread, it's a pile in 2006.”

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  16. “Radio documentary for the BBC called The Crescent in the Shadow, which runs on BBC's national service in Britain and also on the BBC World Service worldwide.”

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  17. “No, no, no. Yeah, I co wrote with Albert Brooks a sort of precursor for that called Real Life, but it wasn't shot in exactly the same way. So it didn't quite qualify as a mockumentary. But yeah, I mean, I don't get as sick of that as I get of television shows sort of taking the visual style of the movie without any purpose at all.”

    2015-09-04 · Masters in Business · The Many Voices of Harry Shearer: Masters in Business (Audio) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source