Harry Shearer | The New York Observer

How a Welsh Vixen Tamed Derek Smalls' Wild Heart

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:25:11 -0400

Judith Owen, the Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and wife of comic actor Harry Shearer, was waiting for me inside the Paramount Hotel on a recent dreary Saturday afternoon.

She was on her second coffee and I was running late. My bad!

Had I been meeting, say, Natalie Merchant, I would have been there five minutes early, but I hadn’t seen Ms. Owen perform yet; I...

Great Moments in Candid Katie

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:26:57 -0400

Candid Katie Couric can be a great thing. But recently most of the genre's memorable moments—Husky eyes!—have come to us courtesy of Harry Shearer. Not from the official Ms. Couric sanctioned YouTube channel.

That said, this most recent clip from the YouTube project, in which Ms. Couric travels to an interview with CNN's Larry King, has one pretty classic moment.

At the 1:24 mark: She is following the venerable newsman down a hallway outside...

Harry Shearer On ClintonTV… Steve Allen On TV's New Vulgarity …Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

Sun, 01 Feb 1998 19:00:00 -0500

Harry Shearer On ClintonTV

Writer and actor Harry Shearer spoke to NYTV from his home in Santa Monica, Calif., on a day when he was reveling in the TV coverage of the Clinton mess.… "You and I are talking right in the middle of what I like about TV, which is a time when, for better or worse, something that purports to be reality comes through in something like real time. What I hate...