Matt Groening defends still stereotyping Apu in 2018 in new New York Times interview
by D’oh. Now we know why The Problem With Apu continues to be problematic, despite Hank Azaria acknowledging that the voice he has used on The …
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Review: Hari Kondabolu, “Warn Your Relatives” on Netflix
If you had told me 11 years ago that the quiet guy in the condo Shane Mauss let me crash in during the final HBO …
Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch 2018
Congratulations to this year’s class of “10 Comics to Watch,” as anointed by Variety magazine and toasted in July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. …
Hari Kondabolu on Conan
I use my middle initial professionally and always have because there are far too many Sean McCarthys in the world, even in the world of …
Hank Azaria is ready to stop providing the stereotypical voice of Apu on “The Simpsons”
Despite the defensive stance the writers on The Simpsons took just weeks ago about their Apu problem, the white man who’s voiced Apu from the …
The Simpsons ineptly defends Apu as once upon a time “applauded and inoffensive”
On Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, the writers had little Lisa give advice to her mom about something or other, using it instead as …
Hank Azaria responds to Hari Kondabolu’s truTV documentary on The Simpsons: “The Problem with Apu”
Here’s something you don’t see much: A celebrity thanking TMZ for stopping him to ask a question. But here was Hank Azaria, who voices Apu …
truTV rebrands, new tagline for 2017: “Funny Because It’s tru”
Plenty of cable channels/networks have rebranded and renamed themselves since first launching in the 1980s or 1990s, and now truTV has fully embraced its newer …
SiriusXM Comedy Greats will “F* Politics” for the week starting Oct. 17, 2016
With less than a month until the 2016 presidential election, SiriusXM will rebrand one of its comedy channels as “F* Politics” for the week to help …
Episode #106: Hari Kondabolu
Hari Kondabolu and I go back to the scene of his very first big break, showcasing for the 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen …