Simpsons

>>94937228

Because it's much easier to have them just be themselves.

>>94937228
Because the writers are lazy hacks. However the guy who plays Jack Bauer really wants the world to know he does a good angry army instructor voice.

>>94937228
Because Simpsons has degraded to a point that guest stars are needed to prop up its image/brand. It needs to be readily identifiable to the idiot viewers instead of some anonymous character voiced by a famous hack.

>>94937228
Because confirmation bias leads you to think they don't do it anymore. They still have a lot of guests playing characters instead of themselves, but it's not as obvious.

>>94937228
They did both and both ways worked. Why don't people understand that it isn't the character but the writer who makes dialogue for said character. It's not a hard concept to get

>>94937228
Around Season 10 when they lost Phil Hartman and aired When You Dish Upon a Star.

>>94937228
because the writers only write in characters because they want to meet actors. that's why they spent so much time writing plots that involve masturbatory indulgence of these actors instead of playfully roasting them

Micheal Jackson wanted to make things confusingly complicated and it was such a hassle that they insisted guest stars have to be upfront about being themselves.

Who should voice Sneed?

>herb "appeared" again as just a phonecall

They still have them as actual characters now and then.

Kristen Wiig and Sofia Vergara have been teachers, and Sarah Silverman have played two little girls who are both as irritating and are as massive bitches as she is.

They've had guest stars on in recent years as original characters. Daniel Radcliffe was some falconry club kid. Colbert was basically colbert but a life coach or some shit


I do miss when it was more frequent and better written though

>>94940183

Thank god the Archer writers learned not to do that after Burt Renyolds.

>>94942192
And they had been trying to get him in the show before that too. He turned them down a couple times

>>94937228

I actually looked at a list of guest stars through the years. They were consistent in how many guests there were in each season but there were definitely more voicing original characters rather than themselves and then that flipped around in the zombie era.

>>94942155
shut up boco
and this time dont try to defend yourself through taking off your trip