Mike Henry Archives

Back in September 2020, it was announced that YouTube sensation Arif Zahir would be taking over the role of Cleveland Brown on FOX's Family Guy after original voice actor Mike Henry stepped down from the character so that an actor of color could voice the role While Zahir was pretty sure that viewers had seen the last of[...]

Originally voiced by Mike Henry until he stepped down from the character so that an actor of color could voice the role, Zahir was pretty sure that viewers had seen the last of Cleveland ("I thought they were going to write him out and I was like, 'oh no.' But I was appreciative of that[...]

Not long after FOX announced that YouTube star Arif Zahir will be joining the voice cast of Family Guy starting with the 19th season (which just started production) in the role of Cleveland Brown, originally voiced by Mike Henry Having voiced the character since the series premiered in 1999, Henry stepped down from the role in[...]

YouTube star Arif Zahir will be joining the voice cast of FOX's Family Guy starting with the 19th season (which just started production) in the role of Cleveland Brown, originally voiced by Mike Henry Having voiced the character since the series premiered in 1999, Henry stepped down from the role in June and urged that[...]

Kristen Bell (Central Park), Jenny Slate (Big Mouth), and Mike Henry (Family Guy) stepped down from their respective roles so that those characters could be voiced by a Black voice actor Producers for FOX's The Simpsons pledged to no longer have white actors voice non-white characters on the long-running animated sitcom BoJack Horseman star Alison[...]

In the same week that Kristen Bell (The Good Place) and Jenny Slate (Muppet Babies) announced that they were stepping down from their respective Central Park and Big Mouth roles so that those characters can be voiced by a Black voice actor, long-time Family Guy voice actor Mike Henry announced he was stepping down from[...]

Credit: Fox Twenty-four hours after what can best be described as "Cancel Friday," — where a solid number of series were cancelled by several networks — comes a little positive (thought not surprising) news on the animation front: Fox has renewed Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy for a 16th season (also the show's 20th anniversary) and Loren Bouchard's Bob's Burgers[...]