Harry Shearer won't continue to voice Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons after all

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L to R: Harry Shearer (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival), Dr. Hibbert (Screenshot: Fox) Graphic: The A.V. Club
Back in August, voice acting veteran Harry Shearer—who has the supplied the jolly giggles for Dr. Julius Hibbert as well as the quips of many other characters since 1990—had some things to say about white voice actors playing Black characters. To summarize: He didn’t quite think the burden of representation was on the actor because their job “is to play someone who they’re not.” Not only did his opinion vastly differ from those like Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell, who both stepped down from their respective roles after the industry went through a reckoning last summer; it also gave the impression that he would be sticking around as Springfield’s most prominent medical expert for a while.