Harry Shearer, Humorist, RIP

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I used to listen to Harry Shearer's radio hour Le Show. It was a tour de force for Shearer, who did an amazing job of vocal mimicry, political satire and comedy in general. But the time of the show changed and I stopped listening regularly.

I've now heard Le Show several times in the past few months and I'm sad to report that Shearer has voluntarily given up his old humor program and replaced it with obsessively reported anti-war propaganda. Here's hoping the old Harry returns in 2005.