While The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White is set to play Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming film about the making of his 1982 album, Nebraska, it’s the comic actor and voice-mimic maestro Hank Azaria who’s fronting a Springsteen tribute band right now.
Azaria first broke out his Boss impression at his 60th-birthday party at City Winery in New York back in April. It went so well he decided to turn this one-off gig into a mini-tour, fronting his “EZ Street Band.” Speaking to Air Mail after a sold-out performance in August at the Stephen Talkhouse, an intimate club on the eastern tip of Long Island, Azaria was still stunned at his surprisingly sudden career transition. “I had no idea this would be such a thing,” says Azaria, who is best known for being an ever present cast member on The Simpsons, voicing multiple characters including Chief Wiggum, Moe the bartender, and Dr. Nick Riviera. After his first official concert, Azaria proudly proclaimed to a thrilled audience, “This is one of the greatest nights of my life.”
