Shearer portrayed Derek Smalls, the bassist, and Michael McKean and Christopher Guest played the other two members.

The show, which starred Christopher Guest, Tom Leopold and McKean, was not picked up.

In 1984, while promoting the film This Is Spinal Tap, Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean had a performance on Saturday Night Live.

" Guest also accepted the offer while McKean rejected it, although he would join the cast in 1993.

Shearer, Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest received a deal to write a first draft of a screenplay for a company called Marble Arch.

The three core members of the band Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel — were portrayed by McKean, Shearer and Guest respectively.

Shearer, Guest and McKean have since worked on several projects as their Spinal Tap characters.

The three main members of Spinal Tap — David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel — are played by the American actors Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, and English-American actor Christopher Guest, respectively.

Michael John McKean ( born October 17, 1947 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard " Lenny " Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley ; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap.

McKean directed one episode, and the characters became something of a phenomenon, even releasing an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979, which featured a young Christopher Guest on guitar ( credited as Nigel Tufnel ; the name Guest would use a few years later as part of the spoof rock band, Spinal Tap ).

After leaving Laverne and Shirley in 1982, McKean played David St. Hubbins in the cult spoof documentary movie This is Spinal Tap with both Guest and Shearer, and appeared in the soap opera spoof Young Doctors in Love.

An uncredited Jim Cummings, along with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest from This is Spinal Tap provided voices for the remaining Gorgonites.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer appeared in full regalia and stayed in character for a three hour visit.

Levy, along with Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, was awarded the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media for the title song from A Mighty Wind.

** Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean ( songwriters ) for " A Mighty Wind " performed by The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey & The New Main Street Singers

The Folksmen trio consists of Mark Shubb ( Harry Shearer ), Alan Barrows ( Christopher Guest ), and Jerry Palter ( Michael McKean ).

Guest stars in season four include Sônia Braga, Joel Grey, Michael McKean, Lena Olin, Isabella Rossellini.

* In the 1984 comedy This is Spinal Tap David ( Michael McKean ), Nigel ( Christopher Guest ) and Derek ( Harry Shearer ) visit Graceland, then reminisce with Marty ( Rob Reiner ) and sing a portion of Heartbreak Hotel.

The band members are portrayed by Michael McKean ( as David St. Hubbins ), Christopher Guest ( as Nigel Tufnel ) and Harry Shearer ( as Derek Smalls ).

Guest, McKean, and Shearer toured in the U. S. in and performed as Spinal Tap in a " One Night Only World Tour " on 30 June 2009 at Wembley Arena in London, three days after playing the Glastonbury Festival.

The Folksmen are a fictitious American folk music trio, conceived and performed by actors / comedians / musicians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer first appeared as the Folksmen on the November 3, 1984, episode of Saturday Night Live.

Guest and Shearer had both been regular cast members for some time, while McKean was appearing that night as a special guest.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Shearer told new executive producer Jean Doumanian that he was " not a fan of Lorne's " and offered to stay with the show if he was given the chance to overhaul the program and bring in experienced comedians, like Christopher Guest.

* 2003 – Seattle Film Critics Award Winner: Best Music-A Mighty Wind-( shared with Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Catherine O ' Hara, Annette O ' Toole, Harry Shearer and Jeffrey C. J.

* 2001 – DVD Exclusive Award Winner: Best DVD Audio Commentary-This Is Spinal Tap-( shared with Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer )

The success of this book and the attention it brought its authors led directly to the creation of the National Lampoon magazine, which spun off a live show Lemmings, and then a radio show in the early 1970s, The National Lampoon Radio Hour introducing such performers as Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Chevy Chase.

This new cast included Soap star Billy Crystal ; Martin Short, who had made a name for himself as Ed Grimley ( a character he would bring to SNL that year ) on Canada's SCTV ; Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer ( who was also a cast member in 1979 ) from The Credibility Gap and This Is Spinal Tap ; Pamela Stephenson from Not the Nine O ' Clock News & Superman III ; and Rich Hall from HBO's Not Necessarily the News.

Almost Heroes is a 1998 adventure comedy film directed by Christopher Guest, narrated by Guest's friend and frequent collaborator Harry Shearer, and starring Chris Farley and Matthew Perry.

The line between fiction and reality had previously blurred when, in 1993, Guest, McKean and Shearer performed as The Folksmen at a genuine folk festival held at UCLA in Los Angeles, alongside such real-life folk artists as Arlo Guthrie, Joni Mitchell and Peter, Paul & Mary.

As a co-writer and director, Guest made the Hollywood satire The Big Picture.

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

As early as 1673, just months after Pierrot had made his debut in the Sequel to " The Stone Guest ", Scaramouche Tiberio Fiorilli and a troupe assembled from the Comédie-Italienne entertained Londoners with selections from their Parisian repertoire.

" Guest Eddies ," a term used for musicians that contributed musically to one of the bands projects also made appearances on nearly every album.

Numerous films have been made at Twickenham since the end of Hagen's tenure including Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down in 1939, In the 1960s classic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion ; Be My Guest in 1965, featured Jerry Lee Lewis an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott and The Nashville Teens.

He made a Guest appearance in the season two of Hawaii Five-0 on CBS in 2011.

Guest stars were conned into taking part in these plays and made to utter such grammatical monstrosities as when Glenda Jackson ( at the time a noted Shakesperian actress ) had to say, " All men are fools and what makes them so is to have beauty, like what I have got ", to the obvious smug satisfaction of the words ' supposed author.

Metcalf has made guest appearances on Absolutely Fabulous, Malcolm in the Middle, My Boys, Dharma & Greg, Frasier, Without a Trace, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Monk ; she was nominated for the Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series for both of the latter two listed roles.

The character also made an appearance in the series Wings and in 12 episodes of the Cheers spin-off Frasier, which earned her a 1995 Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

In 1955 he had made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, leading to a 23-year association with the orchestra ; he was its Principal Guest Conductor from 1969 to 1972, although he continued to appear with them regularly until March 18, 1978.

Trilobyte released a compilation game made up of the puzzles from The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and Clandestiny, called, Uncle Henry's Playhouse.

A number of them were made into films, with Guest from the Future (" Гостья из будущего "), based on Bulychev's novel One Hundred Years Ahead (" Сто лет тому вперед "), the most widely known about a girl Alice living in the future.

Rizzuto made four more appearances on the program, three as a guest panelist in the 1956-1957 season following his retirement, and one in 1970 as the Mystery Guest on a later incarnation of the quiz show.

Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title.

Guest appearances are made by Floyd colleague Richard Wright, as well as Robert Wyatt and Bob Geldof.

The studio also made modern-dress comedies and melodramas such as Love Story ( 1944 ), Two Thousand Women ( 1944 ), Time Flies ( starring Tommy Handley, 1944 ), Bees in Paradise ( with Arthur Askey directed by Val Guest, 1944 ), They Were Sisters ( 1945 ), and Easy Money ( 1948 ).

In the late 1980s, dance notation specialists Ann Hutchinson Guest and Claudia Jeschke reconstructed the ballet from Nijinsky's own notebooks, his dance notation and the photographs of the dancers that were made by Baron Adolf de Meyer shortly after the first performance.

As well as shooting on location, Guest and his crew made use of Stages 2 and 5 of the New Elstree Studios, the first Hammer production to shoot there.

A couple of months later, he made an appearance as a Guest Vocalist of Japanese Jazz Fusion Band T-Square on their album, 33.

Guest conductor appearances were made by Bruno Walter, Ernest Ansermet and Hans Knappertsbusch at this time.

The Weekend of September 17 and 18 of 2011, Rev Run made a Special Guest appearance at Bay Area Fellowship with Pastor Bil Cornelius in Corpus Christi, Texas Bay Area Fellowship Church

In October 2009 he made a return to the stage when he appeared as the main Guest of Honour at the Pride of Bridlington Awards held in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The latter was the first of what would be four collaborations with director Joseph Losey ( of which his favourite was The Criminal ( 1960 )); he also made two films each with Val Guest, Ralph Thomas and Robert Aldrich.

He also made one appearance as the show's " Mystery Guest " in 1955.