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The TV academy has honored voice-only performances since 1992, when six cast members from “The Simpsons” collectively became the first actors to receive Emmys for such work. The Best Voice-Over Performance category became an official non-juried one in 2009 and was then split into two categories in 2014: Best Character Voice-Over and Best Narrator. Harry Shearer (“The Simpsons”) was the former category’s first champion, having been nominated once before for the same series.

The 2023 Best Character Voice-Over ballot consists of 148 performances, which is down by 74 from last year. Seeking her third victory is Maya Rudolph, who plays Connie the Hormone Monstress on “Big Mouth.” Also in the mix are former winners Shearer, Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons”), Alex Borstein (“Family Guy”), and Seth MacFarlane (“Family Guy”).

Unlike the live action and fictional program nominees, which are chosen by all 20,000 plus academy members, the Best Character Voice-Over contenders are picked only by voters...

Comedy Central is making changes in late night. Tooning Out the News and Hell of a Week will not be returning for new seasons.

Tooning Out the News, which originally premiered on CBS All Access (since rebranded as Paramount+), is a topical live-action/animation hybrid series. Episodes spoof the week's news in the form of satirical segments that look at current events, political issues, and pop culture topics,

The voice cast includes R.J. Fried, Maureen Monahan, Jack Bensinger, Naima Pearce, Ike Ufomadu, Zach Smilovitz, and Addison Anderson. Tooning Out the News ends its run after three seasons and more than 250 episodes. Read More…...

Tooning Out the News is returning for a second season next month. The animated comedy series, which is an animated parody of a cable news show, will return with the launch of Paramount+ (currently known as CBS All Access). In season two, viewers will see smaller episodes arrive on weekdays with a full half-hour episode being released weekly.

Executive produced by Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Rj Fried, and Tim Luecke, Tooninbg Out the News' voice cast includes Mitch Lewis, Maureen Monahan, Simone Norman, Addison Anderson, Jeremy Bent, Meg Stalter, Jack Bensinger, Zach Smilovitz, Neil D'Astolfo, and Fried.

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