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. Fortnite developer Epic Games has said it will adjust an image within its newly-launched The Simpsons season that depicts ...

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 ...

For more than two decades, Apu was a constant on The Simpsons. Voiced by Hank Azaria, the character appeared regularly, delivered some of the show’s most quoted lines, and became one of its most ...

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 ...

(LOS ANGELES) — For about a year now, The Simpsons character of Apu has been under fire for cultural insensitivity. While the show finally addressed the controversy, it did so in an an offhand way.

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 ...

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’ ...