Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Hair: Bald Occupation: Musician First appearance: "The Bart Wants What It Wants"

Paul Shaffer is a Canadian-American musician, actor, author, and comedian.

History

When the Simpson family arrive into Toronto there is a plaque at a bus station "Birthplace of Paul Shaffer".

Homer Simpson's favorite song, It's Raining Men, was written in 1979 by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer.

Behind the Laughter

• Shaffer is most famous for being David Letterman's talk-show bandleader and sidekick.
• The inside cover of the book, The Simpsons: One Step Beyond Forever! contains concept art of various objects from Seasons 13 and 14, including artwork of the sign seen at the bus stop.

Appearances

• Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants"

External links

• Paul Shaffer at Wikipedia

Actors and actresses

Real world actors F. Murray Abraham • Ben Affleck • Steve Allen • Tim Allen • Woody Allen • Richard Dean Anderson • Edward Andrews • Judd Apatow • Alan Arkin • Curtis Armstrong • Tom Arnold • Ed Asner • Fred Astaire • Sean Astin • "Stone Cold" Steve Austin • Frankie Avalon • Hank Azaria • Bad Bunny • Scott Baio • Scott Bakula • Bob Balaban • Alec Baldwin • Billy Baldwin • Daniel Baldwin • Stephen Baldwin • Jason Bateman • André Bazin • Ed Begley, Jr. • Jim Belushi • Tom Berenger • Milton Berle • Bill Bixby • Jack Black • Richard Blackwell • Robert Blake • Humphrey Bogart • Ray Bolger • Jon Bon Jovi • Sonny Bono • John Wilkes Booth • Ernest Borgnine • Tom Bosley • David Bowie • Zach Braff • Russell Brand • Marlon Brando • David Brenner • Jim Broadbent • Matthew Broderick • Charles Bronson • Mel Brooks • Pierce Brosnan • Yul Brynner • Steve Buscemi • Gary Busey • John Byner • James Caan • Nicolas Cage • Rory Calhoun • Charlie Callas • George Carlin • Drew Carey • Jim Carrey • David Cassidy • Dan Castellaneta • John Cena • 50 Cent • Timothée Chalamet • Richard Chamberlain • Charlie Chaplin • Dave Chappelle • Chevy Chase • Maurice Chevalier • Tommy Chong • George Clooney • James Coburn • James Coco • Gary Coleman • Phil Collins • Sean Connery • Tim Conway • Kevin Costner • Joseph Cotten • Peter Coyote • Wally Cox • Daniel Craig • Terry Crews • James Cromwell • Bing Crosby • David Cross • Tom Cruise • Billy Crystal • Macaulay Culkin • Robert Culp • Bob Cummings • John Cusack • Matt Damon • Rodney Dangerfield • Tony Danza • Larry David • Mac Davis • Sammy Davis, Jr. • Daniel Day-Lewis • Robert De Niro • Jimmy Dean • Guillermo del Toro • Dom DeLuise • William Demarest • Bob Denver • Johnny Depp • William Devane • Danny DeVito • Kevin Dillon • Matt Dillon • Snoop Dogg • Robert Downey Jr. • David Doyle • Richard Dreyfuss • David Duchovny • Jimmy Durante • R. Lee Ermey • Emilio Estevez • Eric Estrada • Chris Farley • Mike Farrell • Norman Fell • Lou Ferrigno • W. C. Fields • Harvey Fierstein • Larry Fine • Fyvush Finkel • Joe Flynn • Dario Fo • Peter Fonda • Harrison Ford • Tennessee Ernie Ford • Bob Fosse • Michael J. Fox • James Franco • Dennis Franz • Clark Gable • Richard Gere • Ricky Gervais • Paul Giamatti • Mel Gibson • John Gielgud • Jeff Goldblum • Freeman Gosden • Dana Gould • Elliott Gould • Robert Goulet • Cary Grant • Hugh Grant • Peter Graves • Spalding Gray • Tom Green • Andy Griffith • Charles Grodin • Steve Guttenberg • Jake Gyllenhaal • Larry Hagman • Arsenio Hall • Mark Hamill • Tom Hanks • Oliver Hardy • Neil Patrick Harris • Rex Harrison • Steve Harvey • David Hasselhoff • Gabby Hayes • Isaac Hayes • Jason Hervey • Dustin Hoffman • Anthony Hopkins • Dennis Hopper • Curly Howard • Moe Howard • Shemp Howard • Ernie Hudson • Rock Hudson • Hugh Jackman • Samuel L. Jackson • Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs • Kevin James • Michael Jeter • Penn Jillette • Don Johnson • Al Jolson • Colin Jost • Gabe Kaplan • Boris Karloff • Danny Kaye • Ben Kingsley • Ernie Kovacs • T. R. Knight • Kris Kristofferson • Michael Landon • Nathan Lane • John Lasseter • Stan Laurel • Peter Lawford • Martin Lawrence • George Lazenby • Denis Leary • Spike Lee • John Leguizamo • Tracy Letts • Eugene Levy • Emmanuel Lewis • George Lindsey • Mark Linn-Baker • Tony Lip • John Lithgow • Jack Lord • Lyle Lovett • Jon Lovitz • Rob Lowe • Paul Lynde • Ralph Macchio • Gavin MacLeod • William H. Macy • Tobey Maguire • Lee Majors • Karl Malden • Howie Mandel • Joe Mantegna • Marcel Marceau • Cheech Marin • Evan Marriott • Dean Martin • Ricky Martin • Steve Martin • A. Martinez • Lee Marvin • Groucho Marx • Harpo Marx • Jackie Mason • Walter Matthau • Matthew McConaughey • John McGiver • Joel McHale • Ian McKellen • Ed McMahon • Steve McQueen • Stephen Merchant • Ray Milland • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Mike Mitchell • Jay Mohr • Jason Momoa • Ricardo Montalban • Dudley Moore • Roger Moore • Tracy Morgan • Garrett Morris • Audie Murphy • Eddie Murphy • Jim Nabors • Kevin Nealon • Willie Nelson • Anthony Newley • Jack Nicholson • Leonard Nimoy • Chuck Norris • Jay North • B. J. 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Scott • Steven Seagal • Jerry Seinfeld • Tom Selleck • Paul Shaffer • Tupac Shakur • William Shatner • Charlie Sheen • Martin Sheen • Allan Sherman • Bobby Sherman • Pauly Shore • Andrew Shue • Gene Simmons • O.J. Simpson • Frank Sinatra • Stellan Skarsgård • Tom Skerritt • Yakov Smirnoff • Kevin Smith • Jaden Smith • Will Smith • Jimmy Smits • Wesley Snipes • David Spade • Sylvester Stallone • Jimmy Stewart • Jon Stewart • Ben Stiller • Harry Styles • Donald Sutherland • Mr. T • George Takei • Jeffrey Tambor • Quentin Tarantino • Channing Tatum • Rip Taylor • Alan Thicke • Fred Thompson • Rip Torn • John Travolta • Willie Tyler • Peter Ustinov • Dick Van Dyke • Vince Vaughn • Jesse Ventura • Bruce Vilanch • Jon Voigt • Mark Wahlberg • Taika Waititi • Christopher Walken • Burt Ward • Denzel Washington • John Waters • Shawn Wayans • John Wayne • Orson Welles • Adam West • Kanye West • Jeff Westbrook • James Westerfield • Joss Whedon • Robin Williams • Treat Williams • Bruce Willis • Henry Winkler • James Woods • Adrian Zmed Real world actresses Jennifer Aniston • Susan Anton • Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill • Bea Arthur • Lauren Bacall • Maggie Baird • Lucille Ball • Vilma Bánky • Christine Baranski • Drew Barrymore • Mischa Barton • Kim Basinger • Frances Bavier • Joy Behar • Halle Berry • Valerie Bertinelli • Beyoncé • Yasmine Bleeth • Shirley Booth • Lara Flynn Boyle • Sandra Bullock • Delta Burke • Carol Burnett • Ellen Burstyn • Dyan Cannon • Mariah Carey • Kitty Carlisle • Lynda Carter • Carol Channing • Charo • Cher • Sofia Coppola • Denise Crosby • Joan Cusack • Miley Cyrus • Beverly D'Angelo • Sybil Danning • Stormy Daniels • Geena Davis • Olivia de Havilland • Judi Dench • Bo Derek • Emily Deschanel • Zooey Deschanel • Phyllis Diller • Donna Dixon • Olympia Dukakis • Faye Dunaway • Clea DuVall • Anita Ekberg • Carmen Electra • Mia Farrow • Farrah Fawcett-Majors-O'Neal-Varney • Calista Flockhart • June Foray • Sutton Foster • Megan Fox • Gal Gadot • Greta Garbo • Judy Garland • Jennifer Garner • Janeane Garofalo • Mitzi Gaynor • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Gina Gershon • Kathie Lee Gifford • Lillian Gish • Sharon Gless • Whoopi Goldberg • Betty Grable • Kathy Griffin • Melanie Griffith • Tiffany Haddish • Goldie Hawn • Rita Hayworth • Joey Heatherton • Tippi Hedren • Audrey Hepburn • Katharine Hepburn • Polly Holliday • Whitney Houston • Kathy Ireland • Victoria Jackson • Joan Jett • Ann Jillian • Scarlett Johansson • Angelina Jolie • Kim Kardashian • Diane Keaton • Grace Kelly • Deborah Kerr • Nicole Kidman • Sally Kirkland • Karen Kilgariff • Eartha Kitt • Lisa Kudrow • Mila Kunis • Padma Lakshmi • Hedy Lamarr • Angela Lansbury • Queen Latifah • Lucy Lawless • Jennifer Lawrence • Cloris Leachman • Téa Leoni • Lizzo • Heather Locklear • Lindsay Lohan • Jennifer Lopez • Sophia Loren • Courtney Love • Myrna Loy • Patti LuPone • Ali MacGraw • Shirley MacLaine • Tress MacNeille • Elle Macpherson • Leslie Mann • Jenny McCarthy • Kristy McNichol • Anne Meara • Lee Meriwether • Donna Mills • Carmen Miranda • Helen Mirren • Janelle Monáe • Marilyn Monroe • Mary Tyler Moore • Agnes Moorehead • Julie Newmar • Nichelle Nichols • Tig Notaro • Kim Novak • Rosie O'Donnell • Ashley Olsen • Mary-Kate Olsen • Gwyneth Paltrow • Sarah Jessica Parker • Dolly Parton • Alice Pearce • Clara Peller • Michelle Pfeiffer • Markie Post • Annie Potts • Maudie Prickett • Victoria Principal • Sally Rand • Martha Raye • Donna Reed • Helen Reddy • Rihanna • Joan Rivers • Julia Roberts • Diana Ross • Isabella Rossellini • Rita Rudner • Jane Russell • Irene Ryan • Jeri Ryan • Jill St. John • Eva Marie Saint • Isabel Sanford • Susan Sarandon • Debralee Scott • Reta Shaw • Cybill Shepherd • Brooke Shields • Dinah Shore • Sarah Silverman • Jessica Simpson • Yeardley Smith • Snooki • Brett Somers • Meryl Streep • Barbra Streisand • Hilary Swank • Elizabeth Taylor • Emma Thompson • Uma Thurman • Jennifer Tilly • Kathleen Turner • Lana Turner • Leslie Uggams • Lupe Vélez • Betty White • Vanna White • Kate Winslet • Joanne Woodward • Catherine Zeta-Jones Other actors Actor being Homer • Actor playing Bart • Actor playing Homer • Bob • Dash Calhoun • Devon Bradley • Bumblebee Man • Cockroach actor • Old Curly • Kyle Darren • Estonian dwarf • Ned Flanders • Frankie • Rocky Galileo • Greg • Buddy Hodges • Huckleberry Hound • Darius Hughes • Orion Hughes • Krusty the Clown • Angus MacMoran • Male actor • Troy McClure • Buck McCoy • Millionaire actor • Phil Muhlstock • Ryan O'Toole • Deion Overstreet • Posh actor • Dirk Richter • Adam Sackler • Otm Shank • Digby Sheridan • Bart Simpson • Homer Simpson • Waylon Smithers, Jr. • Moe Szyslak • Tad Winslow's actor • Glen Tangier • Tick-Tock the Clock • Ticket Booth actor • Troy • Doug Vaccaro • Rainier Wolfcastle Other actresses Actress being Marge • June Bellamy • Lola Bonanza • Angela Dare • Gabriella DeFarge • Annie Dubinsky • Female actress • Laney Fontaine • Allegra Hamilton • Clara Hosenfrauen • Malibu Stacy actress • Dolores Montenegro • Alaska Nebraska • Rebecca • Marge Simpson • Sara Sloane • Vivienne St. Charmaine • Sultry Stevens • Vicki Valentine • Tallulah Winkelman • Xoxchitla Animals Aflac • Babe • Charlie • Señor Chongo • Frank the Wonder Horse • Rover • Spottie the Owl • Mr. Teeny

Authors

Douglas Adams • Mitch Albom • Steve Allen • Hans Christian Andersen • Maya Angelou • Isaac Asimov • Jane Austen • Bob Balaban • James Baldwin • Dave Barry • Lynda Barry • Joy Behar • Saul Bellow • Alfred Bester • Judy Blume • Patty Bouvier • Ray Bradbury • David Brenner • William F. Buckley • Milton Burkhart • Heloise Hodgeson Burwell • Albert Camus • Robert Caro • Lewis Carroll • Willa Cather • Michael Chabon • Agatha Christie • Tom Clancy • Marcia Clark • Arthur C. Clarke • Kelly Clarkson • Beverly Cleary • Leonard Cohen • Dame Edna • Geena Davis • Richard Dawkins • Honoré de Balzac • Simone de Beauvoir • Guillermo del Toro • Esme Delacroix • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Joan Didion • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Maureen Dowd • "Dummies" Author • Amelia Earhart • P. D. Eastman • Nora Ephron • Patrick Ewing • William Faulkner • Tina Fey • Helen Fielding • Guy Fieri • T. R. Francis • Anne Frank • Jonathan Franzen • Jonathan Frink • Neil Gaiman • Elizabeth Gilbert • Malcolm Gladwell • Whoopi Goldberg • Barry Goldwater • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Jacob Grimm • Wilhelm Grimm • John Grisham • Charles Grodin • Che Guevara • Tiffany Haddish • Sean Hannity • Tom Hayden • Lillian Hellman • Ernest Hemingway • Clarity Hoffman-Roth • L. Ron Hubbard • Jay Inslee • Shirley Jackson • Penn Jillette • James Joyce • Julian • Franz Kafka • Helen Keller • Caroline Kennedy • Jack Kerouac • Francis Scott Key • Karen Kilgariff • Stephen King • Rudyard Kipling • Delpho Krull • Padma Lakshmi • Lewis Lapham • Mell Lazarus • Kurt Loder • Karina Longworth • Greg Louganis • Ada Lovelace • Norman Mailer • Thomas Mann • George R. R. Martin • Richard Matheson • Jenny McCarthy • Phil McGraw • Herman Melville • Margaret Mitchell • Michael Moore • Toni Morrison • Ralph Nader • Mary Norton • Kevin O'Leary • Bill O'Reilly • Joyce Carol Oates • Boris Pasternak • James Patterson • Paula Paul • Karl Pilkington • Sylvia Plath • George Plimpton • Edgar Allan Poe • Fenton Pooltoy • Chaim Potok • Richard Pryor • Alexander Pushkin • Thomas Pynchon • Raffi • Ayn Rand • Robert Reich • Paul Reiser • Stark Richdale • Geraldo Rivera • Anthony Robbins • Fred Rogers • Al Roker • Mr. Roman • Isabella Rossellini • J. K. Rowling • Rufus • RuPaul • Barry Sadler • J. D. Salinger • Sheryl Sandberg • Jean-Paul Sartre • Paul Shaffer • George Bernard Shaw • Mary Shelley • Neil Simon • Bart Simpson • Homer Simpson • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Seymour Skinner • Kevin Smith • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Susan Sontag • Andrew Ross Sorkin • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Danielle Steel • Gertrude Stein • John Steinbeck • Professor Stein • Robert Louis Stevenson • Martha Stewart • Moe Szyslak • Amy Tan • Professor Thernstrom • Helen Thomas • Hunter S. Thompson • Leo Tolstoy • Ivan Turgenev • Mark Twain • John Updike • Leon Uris • Gus Van Sant • Jesse Ventura • Gore Vidal • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • Marilyn vos Savant • David Foster Wallace • Dr. Washburn • John Waters • Noah Webster • H. G. Wells • Eudora Welty • Ruth Westheimer • Oscar Wilde • Laura Ingalls Wilder • George Will • Tennessee Williams • Marianne Williamson • Tom Wolfe • Bob Woodward • Virginia Woolf

The Simpsons characters

The Simpsons and relatives Jacqueline Bouvier • Patty Bouvier • Selma Bouvier • Abraham Simpson • Bart Simpson (Bartman • El Barto) • Homer Simpson • Lisa Simpson • Maggie Simpson • Marge Simpson • Mona Simpson Jub-Jub • Plopper • Santa's Little Helper • Snowball II Around Springfield Kumiko Albertson • Ms. Albright • Jasper Beardley • Benjamin • Blue-haired lawyer • Shauna Chalmers • Comic Book Guy • Crazy Cat Lady • Larry Dalrymple • Doug • Eddie • Maude Flanders • Ned Flanders • Julio Franco • Jonathan Frink • Gary • Alice Glick • Barney Gumble • Gil Gunderson • Constance Harm • Bernice Hibbert • Julius Hibbert • Julius Hibbert's daughter • Julius Hibbert's oldest son • Lionel Hutz • Jacques • "Just stamp the ticket" man • Princess Kashmir • Hyman Krustofsky • Akira Kurosawa • Cookie Kwan • Grady Little • Lou • Helen Lovejoy • Jessica Lovejoy • Timothy Lovejoy, Jr. • Barry Mackleberry • Jerri Mackleberry • Jack Marley • Horatio McCallister • Milo • Hans Moleman • Marvin Monroe • Eddie Muntz • Mrs. Muntz • Bleeding Gums Murphy • Lindsey Naegle • Nahasapeemapetilon octuplets (Anoop • Gheet • Nabendu • Poonam • Pria • Sandeep • Sashi • Uma) • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon • Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon • Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon • Old Jewish man • Ruth Powers • Gareth Prince • Gloria Prince • Joe Quimby (Mayor Quimby's body guards) • Martha Quimby • Raphael • Luigi Risotto • Nick Riviera • Sam • Gerald Samson • Agnes Skinner • Roy Snyder • Spuckler children (Dubya • Whitney) • Brandine Spuckler • Cletus Spuckler • Squeaky-voiced teen • Strawberry • Disco Stu • Moe Szyslak • Kirk Van Houten • Luann Van Houten • Clancy Wiggum • Sarah Wiggum • Yes Guy • Artie Ziff Celebrities Bill and Marty • Booberella • Kent Brockman • Bumblebee Man • Scott Christian • Duffman • Matt Groening • Krusty the Clown • Lurleen Lumpkin • Troy McClure • Sideshow Mel • Roger Meyers, Jr. • Arnie Pye • Pyro • Dave Shutton • Jebediah Springfield • Miss Springfield • Drederick Tatum • Mr. Teeny • Rainier Wolfcastle (McBain) Springfield Elementary School faculty and students Chuck Berger • Black weasel • Wendell Borton • Gary Chalmers • Lewis Clark • Database • Lunchlady Dora • E-mail • Rod Flanders • Todd Flanders • Ham • JJ Hibbert • Elizabeth Hoover • Sophie Jensen • Jimbo Jones • Edna Krabappel • Coach Krupt • Dewey Largo • Sherri Mackleberry • Terri Mackleberry • Otto Mann • Audrey McConnell • Nelson Muntz • Nell Nicholson • Brunella Pommelhorst • Janey Powell • Martin Prince • J. Loren Pryor • Report Card • Richard • Dolph Shapiro • Becky Shorter • Nina Skalka • Seymour Skinner • Cosine Tangent • Allison Taylor • Milhouse Van Houten • Wanda • Ralph Wiggum • Groundskeeper Willie • Hubert Wong • Yellow weasel • Jaffee Ziswhisky • Üter Zörker • Kearney Zzyzwicz Blond-haired boy with glasses • Brown-haired boy • Buck-toothed boy • Buck-toothed girl • Girl with glasses • Lewis look-alike • Long haired girl Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Blinky • Charles Montgomery Burns (The Hounds) • Carl Carlson • Charlie • Lenny Leonard • Waylon Smithers, Jr. • Smitty Villains Sideshow Bob • Frankie the Squealer • Herman Hermann • Snake Jailbird • Kang Johnson • Kodos Johnson • Legs • Louie • The Rich Texan • Hank Scorpio • Johnny Tightlips • Fat Tony Other characters Capital City Goofball • Jesus Christ • Santa Claus • Devil • Fallout Boy • Itchy • God • Leprechaun • Richard Nixon • Poochie • Radioactive Man • Scratchy Families The Simpsons • The Bouviers • The Flanderses • The Hibberts • The Krustofskys • The Lovejoys • The Spucklers • The Van Houtens • The Wiggums • The Muntzes Miscellaneous Doppelgängers • Fictional characters • LGBT characters • Animals • Deceased characters • Crossover characters • One-time characters • Recurring characters • Non-canon characters