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.

The Simpsons character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon has been silent for nearly a decade after being criticised for perpetuating harmful stereotypes. The Indian convenience store worker is considered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But no story reason was given for Apu’s conspicuous absence from the show, not even a handwritten note explaining that Apu went ...

The Simpsons faced some major controversy a few years ago over the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and the representation of South Asian people in media, and the former voice actor behind the ...

In the three decades that he has been a voice actor on “The Simpsons,” Hank Azaria has played dozens of Springfield’s absurd denizens on that long-running animated Fox comedy, including the surly ...

"It's practically a slur at this point," he says of what the character represents. By Ryan Parker Former Senior Reporter Hank Azaria was a recent guest on the Armchair Expert podcast, where he ...

Comedy sometimes ages like milk. The things that were funny in say the '80s may not be as funny in ’20 or '25, and as time passes so does the nature of things people laugh about. Everything from ...

It’s no secret that Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is no longer a significant part of The Simpsons. The decision to sideline the character came in the wake of Hari Kondabolu’s 2017 documentary The Problem ...