Shearer, Odets, Beckett

Posted by on January 3, 2012

Harry Shearer had a concluding bit on the Jan. 1 “Year in Rebuke” episode of his radio spectacular Le Show mocking the Obama slogan “We can’t wait.”
To a ‘60s jazz backing groove, Shearer intones:

We can’t wait
Although we’ve waited before
Now the time is late
We can’t wait anymore.

Towards the end comes this theatrical couplet:

We waited for stimulus
That was too damn slow
We waited for Lefty
We waited for Godot.

The whole program, featuring Shearers’ full range of impressions and trenchant observations, is found here and at iTunes and a zillion other places)

The song stands alone at Sound Cloud, here.

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