Harry Shearer

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Summary

Harry Shearer is a writer, actor, comedian, producer, musician, radio host, and filmmaker known for This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, The Credibility Gap, and the long-running political satire program Le Show. His public work is consistently skeptical of political power, corporate media, government failure, and elite institutions, and he has used comedy and music to criticize politicians across the spectrum, including Donald Trump. He also wrote and directed The Big Uneasy, a documentary arguing that engineering failures and governmental decisions, rather than Hurricane Katrina alone, caused much of New Orleans’s devastation. This reflects a persistent muckraking and classical left-liberal outlook, but his career is not primarily organized around DEI, representation-first casting, or race, gender, or sexuality activism.