“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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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.

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’ ...