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‘Family Guy’ Star Mike Henry Will No Longer Play Cleveland Brown
Variety ^ | June 26, 2020 | Joe Otterson

Posted on 06/26/2020 3:24:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Mike Henry is exiting his role as Cleveland Brown on “Family Guy.”

Henry made the announcement Friday on Twitter. “It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years,” he wrote. “I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role.”

Henry has been with “Family Guy” its first season in 1999. In addition to Cleveland, he also voices Consuela, a Latina maid, on the long-running animated series in addition to numerous other minor characters. Henry also voiced Cleveland and his Black stepson, Rallo Tubbs, on the spin-off series “The Cleveland Show,” which aired on Fox for four seasons from 2009 to 2013.

He is now the latest white actor to announce they will no longer voice a character of color on an animated show. Jenny Slate announced on Wednesday that she would no longer play the biracial character Missy on the popular Netflix show “Big Mouth.” Not long after that, Kristen Bell announced she would be stepping down from her role as a biracial character in the upcoming Apple animated series “Central Park.”

Back in January, Hank Azaria said he would no longer voice the Indian character Apu on “The Simpsons.” Calls for Azaria, who like Brown has voiced the character for decades, to stop playing Apu intensified in 2017 after comedian Hari Kondabolu released the documentary “The Problem With Apu.” The doc explored how people of South Asian descent felt about growing up with Apu as one of their only representatives on American television.

Mike Henry

@mikehenrybro

It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years. I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cleveland; clevelandbrown; familyguy; fox; mikehenry; sethmacfarlane
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To: EdnaMode
Look, it's the racially accurate founding fathers om Broadway!


21 posted on 06/26/2020 3:48:34 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: EdnaMode

At least it looks like the leftish press is permitting the use of “Black” (capitalized) instead of the obsolete “African-American”. One small step for language.


22 posted on 06/26/2020 3:51:55 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: EdnaMode
But nobody will demand that James Earl Jones's voiceover performance of Darth Vader be redubbed by a white actor.

It's too bad Don Knotts isn't still around (or is he?). He'd make a great Darth Vader.

23 posted on 06/26/2020 3:58:20 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: EdnaMode

24 posted on 06/26/2020 3:59:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: rfp1234

African American Lives Matter doesn’t have that ring.


25 posted on 06/26/2020 4:00:09 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins)
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To: EdnaMode

And homos can only play homos.


26 posted on 06/26/2020 4:00:47 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: EdnaMode
Just so I'm clear. It makes sense to sane people that only a negro can play the part of a negro character in a cartoon show. Just want to be sure of what I'm hearing ...

(Is the "new" Democrat/Left America great or what?!!!!)

27 posted on 06/26/2020 4:01:52 PM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never"!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Exactly.


28 posted on 06/26/2020 4:04:39 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Kozak

You mean like the deliberately wrong “Hamilton”?

I like things accurate, but voices don’t matter so much. The look is important, though.


29 posted on 06/26/2020 4:07:08 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Family Guy” is I believe, the most evil show I have ever seen. It pushes every hard core leftist and Satanic idea there is.


30 posted on 06/26/2020 4:08:15 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: pnut22

Yes, but they were able to adjust Paul Muni and Luise Rainer a bit to make it more believable. It’d be hard to adjust a black to a yellow, etc.


31 posted on 06/26/2020 4:09:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

People don’t seem to have an issue with the fact the “Les Miserables” is entirely performed in English, instead of French.


32 posted on 06/26/2020 4:10:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Viking2002

That was just excessive, I must admit. And I love Mickey.


33 posted on 06/26/2020 4:11:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s a cartoon you idiot!

I demand a real rabbit play the role of bugs bunny!


34 posted on 06/26/2020 4:12:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: EdnaMode

In related news, Mel Blanc stepped down from his role as Bugs Bunny, apologizing for not letting a rabbit voice the character.


35 posted on 06/26/2020 4:12:39 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: dfwgator

LOL well, make a concession for us uneducated.

Notice how anything ancient, esp. Roman, etc always, must be English actors with English accents. I guess it’s more authentic to have Brits doing Romans and Greeks and Judeans.


36 posted on 06/26/2020 4:13:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

37 posted on 06/26/2020 4:14:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode
Any word from Lou Ferrigno on how he felt playing a person of color?

38 posted on 06/26/2020 4:14:01 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Eddie Murphy did just that.

https://www.snotr.com/video/422/Eddie_Murphy_goes_undercover


39 posted on 06/26/2020 4:14:44 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: pnut22

Eddie knew to get out of doing comedy before the PC Police came along.


40 posted on 06/26/2020 4:15:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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