Mike Henry was the original voice actor of Cleveland Brown and a few other characters on the show. He is also known for his roles as Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs on The Cleveland Show.
Biography
Retirement of Cleveland Brown
Mike Henry's retirement announcement on Twitter.
On June 26th, 2020, Mike Henry has announced on Twitter that he, as a Caucasian man, will be retiring his role as Cleveland Brown, amid today's PC society harboring a slew of SJWs, who claim that a white person voice acting a character of color is "digital blackface" and after 22 odd years of providing his voice, he will be quitting his job and passing the torch to a new voice actor of color. Cleveland's new voice actor has yet to be revealed.
Mike Henry as Cleveland is not the only one of his kind to do this, as this trend has been a snowball effect, which started in 2017, when comedian, Hari Kondabolu released a movie called "The Problem With Apu", which was mostly him complaining about the "racism" of The Simpson's token Indian character, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. One of his complaints was that Apu's voice actor was white, eventually leading to Hank Azaria resigning his role as Apu. This has also led to other white voice actors of adult animated shows doing the same thing, such as Jenny Slate as Missy from Big Mouth and Kristen Bell as a mixed-race girl from a shitty Apple TV+ show nobody cares about.
It is likely that Hank Azaria's retirement of Apu may have been partly responsible for this "snowball effect". However, it's very important to note that given the fact that Mike Henry, Jenny Slate, and Kristen Bell all resigned around the same time, (that time being not too long after the murder of George Floyd), it's not unlikely that this was also one of the main reasons for these specifically Caucasian actors and their sudden collective resignation of specifically African-American and Mulatto characters.
It was later revealed by Mike that he was retiring from the role of all of his for all of his other non-white characters he voiced, such as Rallo, Fouad, and Consuela and possibly his LGBT characters, such as Bruce, Jeffrey, Herbert, and Jesse, given that as a straight guy, All of the characters he retired from voicing found replacements.
Characters
Note: All characters voiced by Mike Henry have been given to different actors in Season 20.
- Cleveland Brown
- Cleveland Brown Jr. (Replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson in Season 6)
- Rallo Tubbs
- Herbert the Pervert
- Jesse
- Bruce Straightman
- Jeffrey Hitlerdidnothingwrong
- Consuela De La Morrela
- Greased Up Deaf Guy
- Fouad
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