KCRW's Harry Shearer to Receive Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio personality ... actor ...
author ... director ... comedian ... musician ... philosopher ... political
satirist ... multimedia artist ... and one of the best "voices" in the
business (just ask "The Simpsons"), HARRY SHEARERis one of the most prolific
entertainers of this -- or any -- generation. Today, The Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce's Walk of Fame Committee announced that Harry Shearer is one of two
LA-based radio personalities who will be honored with a star on Hollywood's
Walk of Fame next year.

For 25 years, Harry Shearer has been dissecting headlines, impersonating news
makers, creating topical songs, writing/acting/producing sketches about
political figures, news anchors and entertainers, and inventing unique feature
segments and characters for Le Show, his weekly Sunday morning program,
produced for and distributed nationwide by 89.9 KCRW-Santa Monica and
www.KCRW.com. Le Show is one of the station's most popular podcasts --
available here: (www.KCRW.com/etc/programs/ls). He writes, produces and
presents all of the material on the show himself.

Vogue magazine called Le Show"a wildly clever, iconoclastic stew of talk,
music, political commentary, readings of inadvertently funny public documents
or trade magazines and scripted skits." Los Angeles Magazine described Harry's
talent for writing and performing this way: "Shearer is a one-man renaissance
assault force on the conventions of our culture and a much-needed antidote to
the current gloom and doom."

An LA native and child actor, Shearer appeared on radio with Jack Benny and in
the pilot episode of TV's "Leave it to Beaver" as Eddie Haskell. A political
science major at UCLA in the early 60s (where he was a writer and editor for
the school's humor magazine), Shearer also did graduate work at Harvard and
served a political internship in Sacramento. As a freelance journalist,
Shearer covered the Watts riots for Newsweek before teaching high school
English for two years in South Central Los Angeles. He cut his performance and
satirical teeth with the legendary 70s stage troupe, "The Credibility Gap,"
writing for, producing and performing on their albums and tours.

Shearer's TV work currently includes "THE SIMPSONS," the longest running
primetime animated series, where he is never seen but always heard as three of
the show's leading characters (Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders) as well
as dozens of other "friends" who visit the Simpson family. Other television
credits include "Saturday Night Live," "Murphy Brown" and "Chicago Hope," to
name just a few, and he starred in his own HBO hour-long special: "Comedy Hour
Live: The Magic of Live." He is a two-time Cable Ace Award winner for his rap
music video "Shredding Party," and "The News Hole," a current events gameshow.
These days, he appears in his own productions on "My Damn Channel," an
Internet-based entertainment website.

Shearer earned multi-media artist status by creating several acclaimed museum
exhibits of public figures, captured via satellite in silence as they waited
for their television interviews to begin. The Museum of Contemporary Art
(MOCA) in Los Angeles presented Shearer's installation, Wall Of Silence,
featuring key figures from the O.J. Simpson Trial in their least
soundbite-stealing moments.
Shearer, along with his wife, singer-songwriter Judith Owen, created Courgette
Records; among other albums, they released Shearer's CD "Songs Pointed and
Pointless," which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2007. His new CD, "Songs
of the Bushmen," will be released July 7 as a digital download at
www.harryshearer.com.

KCRW congratulates Harry Shearer and all of today's announced Walk of Fame
star-honorees: Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Cameron Diaz, Robert Downey
Jr., Tim Burton, Leslie Caron, Charles Durning, Ralph Fiennes, William
Petersen, Kyra Sedgwick, John Stamos, Mark Burnett, Chuck Lorre, Kenny "Baby
Face" Edmonds, Dave Koz, The Miracles, Doug Morris, Rush, Shakira, KFI radio
personality Bill Handel.

SOURCE KCRW Foundation

Sarah Spitz of KCRW, +1-310-314-4627, sarah.spitz@kcrw.org