THE PRESIDENTIAL SATIRIST
Harry Shearer
BRAVELY FUNNY
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
Comedy Guru
The comedy legend discusses This Is Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge visit, his plethora of Simpsons characters, and portraying President Richard Nixon in Nixon’s the One.
MIXED MELODY
Judith Owen, wife of Simpsons star Harry Shearer, reveals how love, jealousy, sadness, and laughter inform her music.
The Simpsons funnyman takes on the Hurricane Katrina disaster—and the agency that allowed it.