What do Sarah Silverman, Jackie Mason, Bob Costas, and the late Eartha Kitt have in common?
They are all going to be guest voices on the upcoming season of The Simpsons.
In the season premiere episode, comedian Seth Rogen will be the voice of a celebrity fitness trainer with the difficult task of trying to get Homer Simpson into shape. Rogen is also a co-writer for that episode.
Speaking of difficult tasks, it can't be easy being Bart Simpson's new girlfriend. The talented Sarah Silverman will be voicing that role.
Jackie Mason will be returning as the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, the father of Krusty the Clown. Mason won an Emmy for this role in 1992. Krusty, meanwhile, will fall in love with an actress on his show, voiced by Anne Hathaway.
Jonah Hill will be playing a prankster, and Neve Campbell, a Wiccan. Other guest voices include Angela Bassett, Chris Martin of Coldplay, football-playing brothers Eli and Peyton Manning, sportscaster Bob Costas, and Ultimate Fighting Champion Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell. The late Eartha Kitt will have a cameo role, but how that will work remains to be seen.
The Simpsons has a long tradition of using celebrity guest stars, and in fact, the show holds the Guinness World Record for most celebrities featured in an animation series. This is just a small sampling of the many notable guest stars of the past: Stephen Hawking, James Earl Jones, Jodie Foster, Lance Armstrong, the Dixie Chicks, Joe Montana, Simon Cowell, Jerry Lewis, Little Richard, Wolfgang Puck, John Updike, Dolly Parton, Larry King, Paul and Linda McCartney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Johnny Carson. Many of the celebrities played themselves, and it is hard to think of any honor, no matter how prestigious, that could be better than being portrayed as a cartoon character on the show.
The new season starts on September 27, 2009.
Sources: The Futon Critic, Zap2It, EW, and Wikipedia: List of Guest Stars.
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