Paul Allen Wood Shaffer is a Canadian bandleader, musician, singer, composer, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for serving as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).
For Disney, he voiced Hermes in the 1997 Disney animated feature film, Hercules and reprised the role in the TV series based on it.
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Paul Shaffer behind the scenes of Hercules.
Paul Shaffer visiting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in June 2016.