Voice Actor Harry Shearer Back On The Simpsons

But this week Entertainment Weekly reported that Shearer had signed a four-season contract, preventing a breakup of the main cast.

Shearer voices characters including Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, and Dr. Marvin Monroe.

Play video “Shearer Quits For “Other Work””. One of the executive producers of the show Al Jean was hopeful that Shearer might come back and continue working on the show.

REUNITED: Voice artist extraordinaire Harry Shearer is returning to extend his quarter-century run on “The Simpsons“.

The two-season deal pays an estimated $300,000 U.S. per episode and includes an option for another two seasons.

We are extremely pleased to announce that all principal cast members of #TheSimpsons have now been signed.

The 27th season is due to hit USA screens this September. Fans – millions of them – had a collective cow, Shearer tweeted his various outrages.

– Al Jean (@AlJean) July 7, 2015five week free period from the Simpsons, I was unaware of this fact, and did in fact request material from him. Harry Shearer, one of the most iconic voices on the most iconic cartoon of all time, has ended his beef with producers and is coming back to The Simpsons. The show will go on and we wish him well.’. They also said at the time that rather than killing off his characters, their voices would be recast. The show, first screened in 1989, has recently been renewed by Fox for a 27th and 28th season, which would take its tally of episodes well above 600.