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’ ...

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 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 ...

Hank Azaria says his "eyes have been opened" and he's willing to "step aside" from playing his controversial "Simpsons" character. The actor appeared on Tuesday's episode of "The Late Show with ...

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) ...

Over the last few weeks, The Problem with Apu, a documentary by comedian Hari Kondabolu, has sparked a conversation about the racism behind famed The Simpsons character Apu, as well as the character’s ...

"The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening waded into the muddy waters surrounding his animated character Apu during an interview with USA Today... and basically shrugged. "I’m proud of what we do on the ...

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 ...