Comedy giant and voice acting legend Harry Shearer says that, despite what some fans of The Simpsons may believe, he has never desired to leave the 35-year gig that he affectionately describes as, “It ...

“I promise you, after I burn,” Derek Smalls growls on Spinal Tap’s new song, “that I’m gonna be rockin’/ In the urn.” Harry Shearer, who plays Smalls and wrote the song, says the idea was simple: “I ...

Harry Shearer devotes much of his creative energy to voicing a rogues’ gallery of characters on “The Simpsons” and hosting his weekly radio news spoof “Le Show.” But he occasionally sprouts a shaggy ...

”A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap,” By Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer with David Kamp. Publisher: Gallery. 263 pages. $35. A baffled rock ...

Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. His work has previously appeared on The A.V. Club, The Guardian, The Ringer, and many other publications.

We meet three members of an aging band named Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Reiner’s inquisitive character, Martin DiBergi, ...

Music fans looking to temper their nostalgia for classic rock ’n’ roll with some self-aware chuckles and a few hearty laughs may want to catch “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” this weekend. A sequel ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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Not reviewed at press time. Improbably, the band – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer – gets back together for this sequel to Rob Reiner’s 1984 concert mockumentary, which still makes ...

As someone born well after the initial release and early fanfare of This is Spinal Tap (1984), it’s a testament to the rockumentary’s enduring appeal that there are—to this day—scant catchier songs ...

The crimped hair may be gray, but the hair metal still rocks: Spinal Tap is back, baby. That’s right, one of England’s loudest and most punctual (and still fictional) heavy metal bands is getting back ...