This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

Christopher Guest Beyond “The Tap”

Writer, actor, and director (and British peer!) Christopher Guest began his entertainment career on Broadway. He had some small roles on television and in films before bursting onto the scene as Nigel Tufnel. The same year This is Spinal Tap was released, Guest was hired as for a year as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Since then, he’s been writing, directing, and acting in a variety of “improvised” films in a style similar to This is Spinal Tap’s. He frequently co-writes with fellow actor Eugene Levy. Together, the two outline characters and scenes, and the actors improvise the rest. Guest and Levy often work with the same group of actors, which includes fellow Spinal Tap alumni McKean and Shearer, along with other actors like Fred Willard and Parker Posey. Guest is married to actress Jamie Lee Curtis