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" debuted ...

Actor Hank Azaria declared that he regrets playing the Simpsons character Apu on NPR’s podcast "Code Switch." Apu was a recurring Indian-American character on "The Simpsons," an internationally famous ...

In the episode titled “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” the show producers slipped in a scene with Lisa and Marge Simpson, who is reading an updated version of “The Princess in the Garden” that was ...

“I helped to create a pretty marginalizing, dehumanizing stereotype,” Azaria said. The comedian now finds it “embarrassing” that the stereotype is broadly applied to Desi people in the United States.

Hank Azaria, 59, opened up about voicing “The Simpsons” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon as a white man on the latest episode of NPR’s podcast “Code Switch.” Apu is a recurring Indian-American character in the ...

The character's legacy has been exposing the extent to which racism lives in Hollywood, and that’s no laughing matter Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster ...

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon may be a secondary character on The Simpsons, but he has been at the forefront of a big conversation about representation on TV throughout 2017. A documentary called The Problem ...

While “The Simpsons” has sidelined Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian immigrant owner of the Kwik-E-Mart, until a new voice actor can be found, creator Matt Groening says he’s still proud of 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 ...