TV just got a lot 'whiter,' says a canceled George Lopez

L.A. Times ^ | 05/14/2007 | kik5150

[kik5150]

George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing. "TV just became really, really white again," he said. Georgelopeztp ABC, he said, has "unceremoniously" canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant. "The George Lopez Show" will live on in syndication, but that's not making Lopez feel better about not getting the chance to tell one final season of stories. Lopez said Steve McPherson, ABC president of prime-time entertainment, called him over the weekend to explain that "financially" it wasn't working out, that the network would lose money if it picked up the show again. That explanation was painful to hear, Lopez said, considering the way the network has shuffled his show over the years -- four different time slots in five years -- and putting it up against "American Idol" time and time again. It all contributed to the show's low ratings, a point not lost on Lopez who noted that this season his show out-performed two freshman comedies that were renewed: "Notes from the Underbelly" and "Knights of Prosperity." "I’ll take the good and the bad," Lopez said. "I took the five years of good and I did a lot with the good. My popularity, I was involved in charities, I overcame my illness, all on TV. I shared all of that with America—every secret I had. Every personal feeling. Every emotion. Everything was open to the show. And what happens?" Lopez said he attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show is produced by Warner Bros. Television, and not ABC Television Studios. Using some colorful language that cannot be printed in a family newspaper,

[Sloth]

canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant.

Sounds hilarious.

[Kenny Bunk]

Spanish language channels I flip past (and there seem to be more of them everyday) are as “white” as can be.

Mexican TV covers the life of "Gallego-Looking" Hispanics only. Either that, or a band of Vandals and Visigoths has captured the Latino media outlets of Latin America.

[HungarianGypsy]

That’s odd that he would push illegal immigration. Especially when he spoke against it not long ago. As in a month.

[VeniVidiVici]

Either that, or a band of Vandals and Visigoths has captured the Latino media outlets of Latin America

LOL!

[from occupied ga]

How about Lopez’s show sucked and was cancelled for that reason?

[longtermmemmory]

I saw a little bit of his stand up schtick during a free hbo promo.

Just a LaRaza joke fest that was 100% irrelevant.

Perhaps somebody needs to tell him he is not that funny.

[longtermmemmory]

Hey George, hate to break it to you but biologically your race is not a race. If anything George you are caucasian.

Obviously george lopez failed biology, multiple times.

[redstates4ever]

[x]

George will be spending the next few months on a bar stool drowning his sorrows with Bill Dana and Speedy Gonzalez.

[Diplomat]

Mencia’s a thief.

Yea, but who's a better looter, Carlos (stole this name too) Mencia or Chris Rock?

[VRWCmember]

"The fact that Desi Arnez never won an Academy Award says something about the American psyche." -- Izzy Moreno

[art_rocks]

Sshhh. We don’t talk about that racism south of the border.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

George, it sounds like you have some seriously hateful bigotry against whites.

You need some sensitivity training.

[Old Professer]

The road to recovery is strewn with boulders at one’s own hand.

[Marysecretary]

George who? Never heard of him.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Relax, idiot. Your fellow leftists are doing everything they can to make this country less white.

[N. Theknow]

Hey George!

If you don't want to be cancelled for having low ratings just change the name of the show to something more spiffy.

How about "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

[FeetOfClay]

“the first latino to lead a TV show successfully”???

How old are you? Never heard of Desi Arnaz, Freddy Prinze, Erik Estrada, or Ricardo Montalba? They were all latinos who headed TV shows much earlier and much more successfully than George Lopez. George Lopez’s little sitcom has done nothing but struggle for an audience, ever since it first aired. GL is lucky that he even made it into syndication.

If racism had anything to do w/ABC’s decision to cancel GL’s unsuccessful show, it was probably the overt racism of GL that was responsible. GL’s act is riddled w/racist rants against whites, whose behavior he relentlessly characterizes as “mas puto” (which losely translates as “flaming faggot”).

GL also glorifies the criminal behavior of illegal aliens, and often peppers his act with cries of “vivia la raza!” (a reference to a racist organization, whose goal is to “take back” the US for Mexico).

GL latest rants are just further evidence of his apetite for biting the hand that feeds him.