Well I wasn’t addressing the issue of whether there were other representations of those ethnicities; you stated in your reply to someone that those accents were also problematic, so I was responding by saying that for me as someone who shares a couple of those ethnicities they are not. If you don’t think they were…

They actually didn’t “double down”; like most people in these comments I’m guessing, I haven’t watched the show in a long time, but from what I understand he hasn’t actually had any lines in at least a couple years. They did the episode where his nephew (played by an Indian actor from The Mindy Project) comes on and…

Some in the know people mentioned it on Twitter and a lot of articles seem to indicate that they were in fact deleted at some point prior to this. (Bear in mind Cernovich used screenshots; he didn’t retweet them directly.) It would make sense; his blogging and offensive tweets were already a known thing that he had…

I’m pretty sure Groening was always joking about the color tint thing. Or at least, it was one of the reasons he approved it (it was actually an animator who made the yellow color decision initially, which people on The Simpsons freely acknowledge, including Groening). And as another person pointed out, for all of…

He was only there for a year and a half or so, around seasons 4-5. He left during season 5 (and made a guest appearance later on that season, since he had already moved to late night by then). He was a great writer on the show of course but his importance to it has been greatly overinflated over the years due to his…

As I understand he actually did delete them and they were found through an archive.

I don’t care about Gunn (though Super was pretty good) and I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty lame. But this is a bad precedent. Most of those tweets make me cringe but they are what they are, failed attempts at blue/dark humor. He made them years ago when he was not directing Marvel films, and has…

I kind of agree about Bob’s Burgers. I remember finding it a little odd when it first came out and how many of the female voices were done by men. I can understand the humor of it, but considering that it’s (contrary to The Simpsons example which was done more like shows of its time and earlier) a show where basically…

A lot of Simpsons casting decisions (and this is true of many cartoons) stem from the fact that they had to fill many many roles with just a few actors. To put it in some context, it wasn’t that they decided from the outset to have an Indian character and then went around looking for a white actor to fill the role;…

Uh....Krusty’s voice is Italian, not Jewish. (This despite several available Jewish actors IN THE SIMPSONS CAST.) And he sounds a little bit like Alec Guinness doing Jew-voice, just saying. 

I love that movie, but one common critique, which Kal even cops to (sort of) in the documentary, is that it was still an extremely rare major role for an Indian character, and then he is made to be this goofy stoner and not an especially “admirable” character. For a long time it was as common for Indians to be called…

Barsanti’s not that left wing. If anything he’s the quintessential centrist lib Dem. 

Yeah especially after all the actually #MeTooed celebrities that seems like an....odd thing for anyone to give a shit about in 2018

What the other guy said but basically it’s a quality and form distinction. It’s actually widely used by a lot of comedians to describe something they try to avoid (the term is credited to Seth Myers I believe, however ironically). Because if it’s just phishing for easy applause and not actually a joke, or it’s…

Well since one of the hosts of the show is Asian and another is female, I guess you don’t have to worry about that here.

It’s a little weird that this guy got #MeTooed only seven or so months ago and now he’s being treated as a hero on sites like this.

Damn, yeah must have slipped. But yeah, Gita, go on Chapo!

This article is fantastic, though the erasure of Amber is violence. (Also Rita go on Chapo.)

I mean, not to defend Whedon here as having affairs with young actresses (allegedly anyway) is at bare minimum an abuse of power and definitely wildly hypocritical to his supposed “feminist” credentials. That being said, I don’t even think his ex-wife claimed that he “demanded” those affairs or used them in exchange…

I mean, I was kidding, but fair. I singled out Klepper that way in my edit because A) I realized I had forgotten to even mention him and B) his show was so bad and cancelled so quickly that he isn’t even really part of the conversation of these comedians. The others are successful, for better or worse.