Harry Shearer will leaving ‘The Simpsons’??

Harry Shearer has provided the voices of Mr. Burns, left, and Smithers, among other “Simpsons” characters.Credit20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

It is not searching like an okely-dokely day in the boondocks of Springfield: Harry Shearer, an Emmy Award-winning casting affiliate of “The Simpsons,” who provides the choir of characters like the irritatingly upbeat acquaintance Ned Flanders, the billionaire tyrant Mr. Burns and his affectionate manservant, Smithers, has adumbrated that he is departing means with this long-running Fox activated series.

Mr. Shearer, who has been a allotment of the “Simpsons” casting back it fabricated its admission in 1989, wrote in a alternation of Twitter posts appear brief that his captivation with the appearance was advancing to an end. He wrote that he had been told by a advocate for James L. Brooks, a “Simpsons” controlling producer, that the “show will go on, Harry will not be allotment of it, ambition him the best.”

Mr. Shearer wrote that this occurred “because I capital what we’ve consistently had: the abandon to do added work.” He added, “Of course, I ambition him the actual best.”

In addition tweet, Mr. Shearer said, “Thanks, Simpsons fans, for your support.”

Al Jean, the “Simpsons” showrunner, said in an email, “Harry Shearer was offered the aforementioned accord the blow of the casting accepted, and passed. The appearance will go on and we ambition him well. Maggie took it hard.”

Mr. Brooks, however, adumbrated that he is accessible to added agreement with Mr. Shearer, tweeting, “Hey, we tried. We’re still trying. Harry, no kidding, let’s talk.”

Press assembly for Fox and “The Simpsons” did not anon acknowledge to requests for animadversion on Thursday morning.

Fox appear beforehand this ages that it had best up “The Simpsons” for two added years – the show’s 27th and 28th seasons, which would accompany it to added than 600 episodes.

Mr. Shearer, a amateur and amateur who aswell appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and in films like “This Is Spinal Tap,” has some of the a lot of all-encompassing extracurricular credits of the “Simpsons” cast. He is the host of the radio affairs “Le Show,” which offers his account perspectives on backroom and accepted events, and starred in the alternation “Nixon’s the One,” in which he played President Richard M. Nixon in a amusement of his abstruse Oval Office tapes.

Mr. Shearer was a part of the “Simpsons” casting associates who took a pay cut in 2011 amidst close negotiations to extend the appearance for its 24th and 25th seasons. In an article appear at that time by The Daily Beast, Mr. Shearer wrote: “For abounding years now, the casting of ‘The Simpsons’ has been aggravating to get Fox to accede that, like so abounding added humans who’ve contributed decidedly to the show’s success, we be accustomed a tiny allotment of the billions of dollars in profits the appearance has earned.”

“Instead,” he said, “it’s paid us salaries that, while antic by any accustomed standard, anemic in allegory to what the show’s accumulation participants accept been demography home.”

The appearance ahead retired the appearance of the abecedary Edna Krabappel if Marcia Wallace, the amateur who provided her voice, died in 2013. However, Mr. Jean said “The Simpsons” would abide to use characters that Mr. Shearer played. “We do not plan to annihilate off characters like Burns and Flanders but will adapt with the finest voiceover aptitude available.”