# Dead too soon: Celebrities who probably would have appeared on the Simpson, had they lived to see it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970 "2010-02-14T18:15:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/1 "2010-02-14T18:15:49Z")
I was thinking that, with George, Ringo and Paul & Linda all making Simpsons appearances, I think John Lennon would have loved the show and He & Yoko would have been on it. Who else? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/2 "2010-02-14T18:41:12Z")
Lucille Ball! Carol Burnett! Lily Tomlin! They would have had a blast, I’m thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/3 "2010-02-14T18:46:27Z")
Carol Burnett? Lily Tomlin? Please limit your posts to _dead_ people, before you give someone a heart attack! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/4 "2010-02-14T18:57:56Z")
Whoops…I knew I should have looked it up first :o :smack: My bad. THEY NEED TO DO SIMPSONS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/5 "2010-02-14T19:19:02Z")
Danny Kaye. He would have been phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/6 "2010-02-14T19:31:58Z")
Off the top of my head… River Phoenix John Belushi Gilda Radner Jim Henson Kurt Cobain Edgar Bergen Ted Knight Mae West ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/7 "2010-02-14T19:42:00Z")
This is making me miss The Muppet Show. I loved all the stars that would come do the show. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/8 "2010-02-14T19:45:42Z")
Just about any TV star from the Fifties on could’ve made a cameo appearance on _The Simpsons_. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/9 "2010-02-15T03:06:20Z")
The brothers Howard and/or Marx Oscar Wilde Abraham Lincoln Wolfgang Mozart ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/10 "2010-02-15T03:12:57Z")
That one guy. You know who I mean, he drives the blue car and started that religion with all the good ideas that don’t work in the real world…Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/11 "2010-02-15T16:10:21Z")
It would have been great for them to have had roles for some of the great voice actors of the past: Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Cliff Edwards, Phil Harris, Sterling Holloway, Don Messick, and Alan Reed. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/12 "2010-02-15T19:25:08Z")
Paul Lynde would been a natural. Bogart would have had fun. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-too-soon-celebrities-who-probably-would-have-appeared-on-the-simpson-had-they-lived-to-see-it/528970/13 "2010-02-16T03:52:14Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Lily Tomlin! Already been done. > **[Lily Tomlin](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Lily_Tomlin)** > > Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress. She voiced Tammy in The Last of the Red Hat Mamas. Lily Tomlin at the Internet Movie Database Lily Tomlin at Wikipedia