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Newly-leaked audio shows MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough chatting with Donald TrumpDonald TrumpObama to visit Florida on Friday Much of the recording, released by comedian Harry Shearer on his weekly radio show, seems typical of off-camera patter at television shows. But it also comes amid criticism, some of it from CNN and other rivals to MSNBC, that the "Morning Joe" team is too supportive or close to Trump, the GOP presidential frontrunner. In one exchange, Brzezinski calls Trump's decision to call two men onstage to a rally last week after they confronted a protester a "wow moment." "You...

Harry Shearer, the voice of Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner, Otto, Smithers, and many more on The Simpsons, has apparently left the show. Shearer used Twitter to indicate that he wouldn't be returning in upcoming seasons of the long, long-running cartoon, suggesting that his desire to work on other projects was the reason for the decision. The actor quoted Simpsons writer and producer James L. Brooks' lawyer, who reportedly said that while the "show will go on, Harry will not be part of it."

All is not well in Springfield, apparently. Not Springfield, Mass., but the one in an unnamed state that is home to Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa. The New York Post reports that ``The Simpsons'' voice actor Harry Shearer says the Fox show's run out of gas. Shearer, who voices such ``Simpsons'' characters as the miserly Montgomery Burns, Waylon Smithers and Ned Flanders, said this week that he believes the show has run its course and that he'd ``rather not be there now.'' ``It makes me sad,'' Shearer told the Irish Examiner. But producer Al Jean lashed back, ``I don't know...