Haha...that's funny...funny like the time my 89 year old grandma referred to the sales clerk as "that colored girl." Which means its not funny.

Breadbowl

Listen Director Guy, Hank Azaria's Apu is perhaps the greatest stereotype of our times. Please don't ruin it.

Leviticus_71

@Wrapitup: 'Nough said. Someone should revoke his DGA card.

kookla

Fellow Defamers, the mystery of Why The Hell Was The Director or Baby Mama Such An Asshole to Talented And Awesome Comedy Goddess Mindy Kaling has been solved.
According to IMDB, one Michael McCullers who directed Baby Mama also wrote the following unfunny movies which excessively rely on racial humor and stereotyping to cover up for the terrible jokes:
Goldmember
The Spy Who Shagged Me
Undercover Brother

Wrapitup

I have to differ with the director as whenever I get calls from a Becky or a Jenny in Customer Service, they sound just like this.

Little Mintz Sunshine

This just proves that Mindy Kaling is a certifiable genius.

durgalicious

Mindy Kaling is my effen hero, being a small brown ethnic type myself. If I had the brass balls, I'd form a league of all Indian-American girls for Roller Derby, and we'd call ourselves the Mindy Kalings.

Huge Tracts of Land

@Huge Tracts of Land: I am a small white un-ethnic type who cannot skate but would like to join your team. I respectfully request payment in homemade Samosas.

Little Mintz Sunshine

@Huge Tracts of Land: I am a white Euro-American who is in small part probably responsible for the oppression of ethnic minorities worldwide. If your group needs someone to make an example out of, please feel free to administer a forearm smash to my jaw anytime you like.

Losin_it

"Come quick, Indian on TV!" - An oft heard refrain in the junkie household of my youth.

The Apu-Manjula wedding episode was the moment we realized our peoples had been recognized.

That and the first time Gwen Stefani wore a bindi.

junkie

@Little Mintz Sunshine: You're gonna have to wear brownface! Or get 12 mystic tans in a row?

@Losin_it: I don't want to hurt anyone! How about I just kind of gently push you down to the ground so you get mild carpet burn?

Huge Tracts of Land

@Huge Tracts of Land, @junkie: It's sad and in some ways inexcusable that American media still heavily marginalizes anybody who is not Caucasian, middle-class, suburban and straight. I think comedy has been particularly brutal to so-called minorities. Much cruelty has been perpetrated under the name of ballsy political incorrectness.

Wrapitup

@Losin_it: Why, what did you personally do?

Wrapitup

@Wrapitup: Unfortunately, I had the unmitigated gall to laugh at the social and cultural differences that divide us instead of uniting us. What right did I have to laugh at George Burns making fun of his fellow Jews at a Dean Martin Roast? What was I thinking when I chuckled when Don Rickles made fun of the black underclass? What kind of despicable person could I have been to think Andrew Dice Clay's horrible remarks dedicated at women? Etc.

I am still a white man. But I will never again laugh at any comedian who points out that people are different. And, being offended is a better conversation starter in case I want to meet women, anyway.

Losin_it

Please sir not to be laughing at the fake Indian accent, my goodness gracious me.
I wonder if this gag of Groening's ever led anyone to the real Satyajit Ray?
Seriously, though, George Orwell was complaining about this stuff last century in his essay on boy's weekly magazines...(essential reading for anyone trying to crack the Harry Potter phenom.)

regisgoat

@Huge Tracts of Land: Correct me if I'm wrong but I understand being unqualified and white entitles me to at least a management position.

Little Mintz Sunshine

Is she trying to curry favor with Letterman?

Mr-Busy

@Wrapitup:
It's sad and in some ways inexcusable that American media still heavily marginalizes anybody who is not Caucasian, middle-class, suburban, skinny (unless male), and straight. I think comedy has been particularly brutal to so-called minorities. Much cruelty has been perpetrated under the name of ballsy political incorrectness.

fixed

aloysius

oh boy... calm down. it is funny.
this is for the website moderators: do you have the whole clip of the internet and if so can you post it??

thanks

bdolfi