Hank Azaria has described creating the voice for Moe Szyslak midway through his audition for The Simpsons.
“The first voice I auditioned was Moe, and I was doing a sort of a Pacino impression, a young, Dog Day Afternoon Al Pacino impression I thought might be good for it.
Speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Azaria described being cast in the series, back in the late 1980s.
The actor voices many characters in the long-running cartoon, including Chief Wiggum, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Comic Book Guy, as well as Moe, the bartender who owns Moe’s Tavern.