That is indeed part of why I feel like he’s not coming out of this wave unscathed. A lot of the more recent allegations are clarifications or elaborations on things there had already been rumblings about. Hell, that article doesn’t even discuss the shit he pulled on the set of What About Bob?.

Man, I love Bill Murray as an actor but there’s almost no way we’re getting out of this post-Weinstein wave of allegations without something really bad coming out about him.

Ignatiy’s cranky today! Ha ha ha

Piven’s Show was always gonna get cancelled though. This just made the network’s decision a little easier.

He should without a doubt resign. It’s always possible he’s not really a monster - I don’t want to suggest he’s at the level of someone like Roy Moore - but we still have to consider what it’s going to look like when Senator Roy Moore (yeah, that’s going to happen), or any other official accused of misconduct, is…

I would assume background details and designs are a bit different, though? I mean, KC didn’t write the scripts. If Apu happened to physically resemble one of the shop owners I could see that though. But beyond the physical design he would have been a creation of the writers/producers and Azaria, to varying degrees.

“It’s certainly your right not to be bothered, but we both seem to agree that it is understandable that South Asians might have issues with this depiction.”

As a Jewish person, if a satirical show like The Simpsons made a Jewish finance character I wouldn’t be automatically offended (hell, didn’t Family Guy actually do that with an ultra-stereotypical accountant character? I’m not a big Family Guy fan, but I usually found that character funny enough). I mean, The Simpsons…

In general I actually think Apu is a defensible character (even if I realize how much it sucks that he was the only major Indian character on U.S. TV in the 90s), but yeah, giving him eight kids was a really really dumb choice in retrospect. I feel like they managed to do the arranged marriage plotline pretty…

This, and I also think Big Bang Theory is way more problematic because they don’t do anything similar with the other characters (I mean, they are stereotypical and one-dimensional, but that’s more a writing flaw than an intended thing as far as I can tell) and there isn’t a broader satirical context the way there is…

I’d say the Klasky Csupo thing is a coincidence, especially since they were just animating the show per the orders of the producers and writers who actually created the character. And Azaria said he based the voice partly on the Indian and Pakistani-origin 7/11 clerks he encountered all over LA. (There’s debate - as…

Between Trump and CNN, I honestly don’t know which one I hate more. Considering CNN basically made Trump president by giving him so much free airtime for months on end, let’s just call it a wash.

Uh....in point of fact, Cosby’s female co-stars have really stuck by him and defended him. It’s common for predators and harassers to be creepy with some people perfectly nice and charming with others. That’s another important lesson from recent weeks.

His podcast with W. Kamau Bell is decent, if only for the interviews. And I think he’s a smart and thoughtful guy. But no, not really. His material has that problem a lot of recent comedy does, which is that it’s more about being “woke” and “making good points” than being funny. People like his act because they agree…

I’m not Indian, but uh, yeah I kinda feel the same way. I think he’s insightful and I like a lot of his commentary (though I have mixed feelings about the Apu thing). I like his podcast with W. Kamau Bell whenever I happen to listen to it. But his actual material is...nothing to write home about, let’s put it that…

This review has a few obvious problems but the first to jump out to me is calling Dana Gould a Simpsons show runner. He wasn’t. He had a producer credit (like basically all the staff writers get if they stick around long enough) but he was just a writer like any other. And, in point of fact, big Simpsons nerds tended…

This is definitely true. If nothing else, given that any given film (unless it is an extremely small-budget independent film, and even then we’d have to be talking about something a few friends made in their basement, nothing that would release theatrically) involves the work of hundreds of people at various levels,…

Saving Private Ryan too.

He didn’t do that. He made a joke about it, because he’s a comedian. At best his “denial” amounted to insulting Weiner’s penis size.

You might say he needs to go to...the Seat of Heat.