131 Quotes by Harry Shearer

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    What we hope is to break Judith as a major artist. Secondly, I'm going to put my television stuff, both from 'Saturday Night Live' and HBO, on DVD for the first time, and package it with a CD of comedy material -- mainly from my radio show ('Le Show') about the era of anchors who are leaving or have left: Brokaw, Rather, Koppel. And then to go down the line, Judith has a lot more material.

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    I'd been freelance writing all this time, and I then got involved in a radio broadcast which was a series of satirical newscasts every day.

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    I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

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    It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

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    We were never on strike. The day that story appeared in Variety newspaper, I was at Fox doing vocal services for that week's show.

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    When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

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    There are a couple of fairly interesting soundtrack situations that we can't yet announce, because we're still in negotiation. And beyond that, we'll start looking at other artists.

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