Alex Désert Joins The Simpsons!

Alex Désert will replace Hank Azaria as Carl Carlson.

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Alex Désert is the voice of Nick Fury on Marvel's The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. He is also best known for playing the blind newsstand owner Jake on the CBS sitcom Becker. Now he's a permanent fixture on The Simpsons.

Fox Entertainment announced that Désert will voice minority characters and replace Hank Azaria's role as Carl Carlson, Homer Simpson's friend at the Springfield Nuclear Plant.

Carl who is been voiced by Azaria since its beginning resigned from his roles as minority characters.

He said he will no longer play any characters of color. That includes Apu, Drederick Tatum, Bumblebee Man and Dr. Nick Riviera. He will still play Chief Wiggum, Moe, Cletus, Snake, Disco Stu, Comic Book Guy, Professor Fink and other characters on The Simpsons.

In February, Azaria announced The Simpsons will write out Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. He is the iconic recurring character who owned the local Kwik-E Mart in Springfield. Those in the Indian and South Asian community believe Apu gave a negative stereotype to their culture.

The Simpsons is America's longest running animated series. In Season 32, the show will no longer have white actors portray characters of color.

Matt Groening, Al Jean and the Fox staff came to the conclusion that The Simpsons are "Moving forward .... [The Simpsons] will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters."

Harry Shearer who has voiced Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Seymour Skinner, Smithers, Scratchy and other characters was query to the rule.

"I have a very simple belief about acting," he told Times Radio. "The job of the actor is to play someone who they're not. That's the gig. That's the job description.

"I'm not a rich nuclear plant owner. I'm not a Bible-believing Christian that lives next to Homer. I'm not any of those people .... I think there's a conflation between representation, which is important. People from all backgrounds should be represented in the writing and producing ends of the business so they help decide what stories to tell an dwith what knowledge. Performance...is playing the part you are not."