Was he the heart and soul of The Simpsons?

Why would it matter then? In the comics there's no voices.

I don't think the show would still be good if he was still alive if that's what you mean.

I wonder what it was like to live with a coked out psycho?

A bit of column A, a bit of column B...

He was good but honestly, not really. It's like, he was one aspect that helped make the show at its peak good, but it still would've been good if he hadn't been involved because he voiced comparatively minor characters.

I don't even know offhand who the hell the guy in the bottom right is.

He was a unique and special presence in the show, the absence of which has made the show all the more soulless.

Burt Coleman from Bart vs Australia

No, IMO that was Doris Grau, because in addition to doing voice work she also was the script supervisor from the first episode onwards until her death.

Phil Hartman was undeniably very talented, but his real skill was being able to fill roles on The Simpsons regardless of their size as well as get laughs from material that might have fallen flat with a different VA. Also, the only thing I'll say about Hartman's death is Cocaine is a hell of a drug and Jon Lovitz is a hero in my book.

No. Sam Simon was pretty much inarguably the soul of the show. It maintained quality through inertia for a few years after he left but if you listen to interviews with the various producers and writers he's clearly the genius. Hartman was a fucking excellent voice actor but like other anons said he had nothing to do with plenty of classic episodes. His death was just one of many things that hurt the show over the years, after it was already on the way down.

I think comedy as a whole died with him

In hindsight his death literally killed the Simpsons

George Meyer was. He gave the show its peculiar sense of sarcastic edge and you notice the humor got progressively more insipid after he left in Season 13.

Typical mangina, you excuse the actual murderous crazy cunt who killed the man.

She had severe mental health and addiction problems she had recovered from and was on medication for
Andy Dick pressured her into doing coke right before she killed Phil
Andy Dick is guilty of homicide by criminal negligence

Most agree on that, but its funny how the decline of the show more or less started just after his death. Is as if Simpsons got a curse.

Shut up Andy Dick.

Nah Sneed was

no one's exculpating the crazy bitch, but you gotta admit it takes a special kind of scumbag to supply cocaine to a recovering addict then joke about the murder-suicide you indirectly caused by doing so

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The Simpsons comics are unironically great, and stayed really good a long time after the show turned to complete shit
They had a good grasp of what they could do with the characters in a comic format, and you could tell that the people behind it really enjoyed working on it

I mean, you're not wrong that the Simpsons kept up its quality in the comics, but I always felt like Marge got the short end. She had terrible characterization in the dozens of comics I remember reading.

..And then there was the story where Bleeding Gums Murphy stole Lisa's music career out from under her after she was finally gaining acceptance for her talents.

anyone who uses the term "overrated" in any capacity should be shot

Jon Lovitz was justified in kicking the crap out of him