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Kent Brockman (voiced by Harry Shearer) is a fictional character on the TV series The Simpsons. Brockman is a local TV news "personality" for KBBL-TV (Channel 6). He hosts the KBBL weeknight news ( Scott Christian is the weekend news anchor and Kent's fill-in) as well as Smartline, a local current affairs show and Eye on Springfield which focuses mostly on Springfield's entertainment news. His character bears a striking resemblance to Los Angeles news anchor Jerry Dunphy .Brockman has a preteen daughter, and has jealously mentioned his sister, who is also a TV reporter with a national network.
On one notable episode, Brockman won the multi-million-dollar state lottery jackpot. He has remained a news anchor because he is under contract, though he admits he would not quit his rather well paying job regardless.
In a flashback to the 1960s, we see when he started out in television his name was Kenny Brocklestein.
It is said Brockman was based on Dunphy and fellow L.A. News legend Hal Fishman .
Quotes
- [live on air] "I've said it before and I'll say it again; democracy just doesn't work."
- [reading from his script before a show]: Thousands were killed in a tidal wave today in (squints)... Kual.... Kaula Lum... [crosses it out] ...France!"
- "I know I'm on. I don't care. I don't read the news until I've had my danish."
- "And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
- "This just in. A fistfight is in progress in downtown Springfield. Early reports indicate, and this is very preliminary, that one of the fighters is a giant lizard. [to off-camera aide] Do we have a source on this? ... Uh-huh. A bunch of drunken frat boys."
Brockman, Kent
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