Last night on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," voice actor Hank Azaria acknowledged that "The Simpsons" does have an Apu problem. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS") HANK AZARIA: (As Apu) ...

“The Problem With Apu,” says Melamedoff, whose own family emigrated from Argentina, is about “how we succeed and fail representing minority voices and elevating minority voices so they can represent ...

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.

"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 ...

Is Apu Nahasapeemapetilon going to be gone forever from The Simpsons? Long-time voice actor Hank Azaria has announced he's quitting Apu in light of backlash from the documentary "The Problem with Apu.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Azaria said he struggled to understand it at first. Apu had been created with affection, inspired partly by Peter Sellers’ ...

A slow-brewing controversy over the longest-running TV show in history came to a head a few weeks ago. In his documentary “The Problem With Apu,” Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu called “The ...

"The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening waded into the muddy waters surrounding his animated character Apu during an interview with USA Today... and basically shrugged. "I’m proud of what we do on the ...

On Sunday night’s episode, “The Simpsons” addressed criticism that its character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon was a racist stereotype. Last November, comedian Hari Kondabolu looked into the representation ...