He satirised the president once before, in 2016, when he provided the voices for a video imagining Barack Obama showing Trump around the Oval Office. Shearer is taking a break from his non-stop work schedule today to discuss a relatively new character for him: Donald Trump. It is so surreal to hear that voice coming out of Derek Smalls’ face that I am not ashamed to say that I make a little shriek. But they don’t come up and go, ‘Excellent!’” he says in a Mr Burns voice, bringing his fingers together Burns-style. Surely people are always asking him to say something in a voice from The Simpsons, I say, just about resisting doing so myself. But I can never tell what people will want to talk about, whether it’s Derek, or the radio show, or Mr Burns. I know people who, whenever someone comes up to them, it’s because they’re going to say that one catchphrase from that one sitcom.
“Nothing is more corrosive in showbusiness than contempt for the audience. One of the myriad advantages of being associated with so many beloved decades-old comic characters is that Shearer is constantly surprised by what’s asked of him. I’m growing it now because I was asked to do Derek next week for a streamed charity show,” he says with a little moustache twiddle. Has the spoof heavy metal bassist’s facial hair become a permanent fixture? Hanging off his face is a very familiar long hank of a moustache that belongs to Derek Smalls, the Spinal Tap character he has been playing for more than 40 years. He also has places in Los Angeles and London, thanks in no small part to the nice chunk of change he gets from The Simpsons of $300,000 an episode. Shearer is talking to me by video link from his home in New Orleans. ‘Cut out the boring parts’ … Shearer as Donald Trump. For the past 32 years, Shearer has been the voice of pretty much every beloved Simpsons character who is not an actual Simpson: Mr Burns, Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr Marvin Monroe and, until recently, Dr Hibbert, the African American doctor who laughs at the most inappropriate moments.
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During the past seemingly static eight months, Shearer busied himself recording and making videos for his new comedy-music album, The Many Moods of Donald Trump kept up his radio show, Le Show, which has been going since the early 80s and did his weekly work for what he describes as “this TV show I’m involved with”, AKA The Simpsons. My wife and I would say to each other at the end of every day, ‘God, we accomplished a lot today!’” “The bonus time from not having to drive around Los Angeles every day really adds up. U nlike pretty much every other person on the planet, actor, voice artist and all round comedy star Harry Shearer, 76, found lockdown a thoroughly productive experience.
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