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 ...

(CNN) — Sunday night's episode of "The Simpsons" took on the controversy over a character, and not everyone thought the response was funny. Comedian Hari Kondabolu's documentary "The Problem with Apu" ...

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 ...

"In order to answer that question, 'Do I keep doing the voice or not,' required a deep dive. It wasn't like, 'Well, let me take a week and look into this.' It was probably two or three years because ...

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. Azaria said he struggled to understand it at first. Apu had been created with affection, inspired partly by Peter Sellers’ ...

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) ...

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 ...