Hank Azaria offers a clue about which Simpsons character will die, sort of

Last fall, producers of The Simpsons got swept up in the then-hot trend of national institutions dismissing nonessential personnel out of sheer boredom, declaring that it would soon kill off one of its “regular” characters. At the time, producer Al Jean would say only that it would be a character who had appeared more than twice on the show and that its voice actor had won an Emmy for the role—knowingly leaving a huge pool of candidates, seeing as these parameters could include the dozens of characters played by all the main voice actors, as well as guest stars like Jackie Mason, Anne Hathaway, and Kelsey Grammer. But now the field has narrowed just slightly, after Hank Azaria dropped the most minor of clues in a Sirius XM interview for Entertainment Weekly’s TV Editors Hour, sending you racing to your bookie who will angrily remind you that this phone line is for betting on sports games only, not some dumb cartoon.