Le Show

Le Show is a weekly syndicated public radio show hosted by satirist Harry Shearer and carried on many National Public Radio and other public radio stations throughout the US and internationally. The show is also available as streaming audio from Harry Shearer's website and as free downloadable files from Audible.com. The show has also been made available as a podcast on iTunes, along with other KCRW programs.

Related Topics:
Harry Shearer - National Public Radio - Public radio - Podcast - ITunes - KCRW

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The show began in 1983 and ran under various titles for several months before "Le Show" was selected from the results of a listener contest.

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The program is a bit of a hodgepodge -- satirical news commentary alternates with music and sketch comedy. Shearer, an impressionist who is probably best known for his voice work on The Simpsons, writes the sketches and performs all the voices.

Related Topics:
Sketch comedy - The Simpsons

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Recurring features include:

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• Apologies of the Week
• Bad Day at Black Rock (behind-the-scenes parody of CBS news)
• Extra Access Tonight (lampoon of various entertainment news shows)
• Los Angeles Dog Trainer Corrections (Harry reads out the extensive and often unusual LA Times errata)
• Strictly from Blackwell (Mr. Blackwell presents a show from Beverly Hills)
• Tales of Airport Security (sent in by listeners)
• The Trades (Harry reads trade magazines)

Among the presidential and political parodies are:

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• 41 calls 43 (George H. W. Bush calls George W. Bush)
• Clintonsomething (a thirtysomething parody)
• Dick Cheney: Confidential (parody of hard-boiled detective stories)
• Nixon in Heaven
• The Gore Room (Al Gore and Al Franken host a liberal talk radio show)

Le Show usually originates live on Sunday mornings from "The Le Show Dome" at KCRW in Santa Monica, ("The city known around the world," Shearer says in his signoff, "as the home? of the homeless.") but is occasionally recorded at or broadcast from other NPR and public stations when Shearer is on the road.

Related Topics:
KCRW - Santa Monica

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