131 Quotes by Harry Shearer

The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.

That's why the good Lord invented the Internet,

You sit around as an artist and think, 'I can do this better than these guys,' whatever the record company isn't doing at the moment. So somebody called our bluff and said, 'OK, you're the record company.

This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. 'Oh My God!'-- that's all you can say.

A bunch of different kid roles on the Benny show. I worked for him for eight years, so I played Jack as a kid and other kinds of parts as well.

I told a different disgusting joke with the same setup and a different punch line, ... I'm hoping that's in the DVD.

If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to be made to laugh at it robs the telling of it of the power to shock and sting. It's why (word-abusing comic George) Carlin is in the movie. It's basically a lesson about words, how we can give power to words and take it back. Comedy lubricates that transaction sometimes.

I realize I'm going against the grain, doing a fully produced CD of comedy sketches and music at a time when the only comedy recordings are basically standup. But it's the kind of comedy records I grew up on and ... (have) always been kind of my favorite.

high and dry. The French were no dummies. They knew where to build.