Hank Azaria, who provides the voices for a host of characters on "The Simpsons," including Moe Szyslak and Chief Wiggum, is suing over the rights to one of his characters.
Azaria and his How to Pictures, Inc. filed suit Wednesday against "Leap Year" actor Craig Bierko in U.S. District Court in Central California on Wednesday, saying that Bierko is jeopardizing a potential movie deal by falsely laying claim to a voice that Azaria claims he created nearly 30 years ago.
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Don't worry, though; Springfield's favorite curmudgeonly bartender and inept police chief won't be affected.
According to the suit, Azaria created a voice for a "a colorful baseball announcer who speaks with peculiar speech inflections" in 1983 or beforehand, and introduced the voice to Bierko after meeting him in 1990.
In 2010, Azaria used the voice in a Funny or Die skit in...