‘The Simpsons’ Actor Harry Shearer Hears “Folk Say The Show Has Become Woke” After He Stopped Voicing Dr. Hibbert

Harry Shearer voices many characters on The Simpsons and was once lately changed because the accentuation of Dr. Hibbert.

In 2020, manufacturers made up our minds to don’t have any longer white actors accentuation characters of colour, a choice which additionally made Hank Azaria surrender from voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.

Shearer lately mirrored at the alternate and who impressed Dr. Hibbert’s accentuation.

“Folk say the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected,” Shearer mentioned on The Occasions of London. “I voiced the Black physician, Dr. Hibbert, who I based on Bill Cosby. Back then he was known as the ‘whitest Black man on television.’ Then, a couple of years ago, I received an email saying they’d employed a Black actor, who then copied my voice. The result is a Black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest Black man on TV.”

Kevin Michael Richardson took over the function of Dr. Hibbert in 2021. Shearer nonetheless voices Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Major Skinner, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Rainier Wolfcastle, and Kent Brockman, amongst many extra.

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Shearer additionally mentioned he “wasn’t sure about joining The Simpsons in 1989,” as “voice actors are usually given a script after the animation is completed.”

“I took the job because it was the other way around,” he added. “I play more than 20 characters but the evil nuclear power plant owner, Mr. Burns, is a favorite. I styled his voice on Ronald Reagan.”