Comedians not laughing at character in ‘The Simpsons’

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 11/14/17 | Mark Kennedy

[artichokegrower]

Growing up in New York in the 1980s, comedian Hari Kondabolu was like many young people. He watched “The Simpsons” and he adored “The Simpsons.” There was just one thing that bothered him about it.

Amid the fictional Springfield barflies, incompetent doctors, clowns and crazy eggheads was a truly cartoonish character — Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart clerk who sold expired food, ripped off customers and delivered the sing-songy slogan “Thank you, come again.”

[artichokegrower]

You can only make fun of Christian white heterosexual non-handicapped employed conservative males.

[SoFloFreeper]

gimme a break.

[a fool in paradise]

So WTF isn't racist Slow Joe Biden the butt of lib-com jokes?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Apu has been around FOREVER and now these snowflakes have issue with it? Geez Krusty The Clown is Jewish, he told lots of jokes about his Jewish father(Who was a Rabbi) I took no offense, it was funny..no one has a sense of humor anymore these social justice snowflakes really have NO lives

[jiggyboy]

Apu was one of the only Indian immigrants portrayed in popular culture and yet he was a buffoon.

Even worse, Apu was the only buffoon on The Simpsons. No other character was a caricature, a stereotype, or an exaggeration. *cough*

[Yo-Yo]

Hari can go suck on a Squishee.

[djpg]

Ok, then, Mr. Kondabolu, don’t negatively stereotype conservatives or others who disagree with you politically in your comedy.

[gaijin]

Dating myself:

I REMEMBER when comedians laughed and told jokes.

I also remember the manually-twisted TV station knob thingy.

[Trumpet 1]

In which episode did Apu sell outdated food.? And when did he rip off the customers?! All of the prices were clearly marked. The customers were just too stupid to know any better. The children watching the show saw right away that the convience store is a rip off, and that it is better to shop at a grocery store.

[DiogenesLamp]

You can only make fun of Christian white heterosexual non-handicapped employed conservative males.

I didn't read the article very much. Did he complain about "grounds keeper Willie" from Scotland?

[Kickass Conservative]

Kind of like Democrats and Republican Swamp Dwellers that love Joe “The Child Molester” Biden (recent numerous Photographic and Video evidence) but want to destroy Roy Moore (hearsay evidence from 40 years ago).

[jiggyboy]

“If you had an African-American character — even a cartoon — with the types of stereotypes done for Apu, people would understandably, and very rightfully, raise hell and the studio would say, ‘We can’t do this. This is not funny,’” said Penn.

You were saying?

[a fool in paradise]

>>Apu was one of the only Indian immigrants portrayed in popular culture and yet he was a buffoon.

Homer J. Simpson -> BUFFOON
Barney -> BUFFOON
Moe -> BUFFOON
Principal Skinner -> BUFFOON
Ned Flanders -> BUFFOON

His point?

[Skywise]

That’s right - Apu is a racist, demeaning stereotype but Homer J. Simpson is a funny white man... Ned Flanders even more so.

[buwaya]

Apu is treated better than most charactrs in the Simpsons, or he was, way long ago when we were still watching that.

Behind Lisa or Marge in the writers sympathies.

[Triple]

Meester Simpson , please do not feed my god a peanut.

[Hammerhead]

It true.

Nor can you watch a football game without some jerkoff African American street thug taking a knee during the National Anthem.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Well, an Indian singing barbershop is such a stereotype:..

[Rebelbase]

Dave Chapelle’s people dancing to different music skit.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0cc0bac3ce/chappelle-show-dancing-for-different-cultures

[dhs12345]

And the Polish - Italian joke book. Hours of fun.