-- wot -- — 1 year ago(May 16, 2024 04:24 AM)

Interview with a voice actor from The Simpsons.
"Folk say the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected," Shearer said. "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.