Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu has a new special coming out next week, and he’s teamed up with his old nemesis Hank Azaria to promote it. The Simpsons The Apu character haunted Kondabolu’s childhood.
In the promotional video, Azaria gives a special mention to Kondabolu and gives her lines with winking insincerity. holiday baby “Honestly one of the greatest stand-up pieces I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“It’s filled with so many funny and touching anecdotes about what it’s like to have a child during a global pandemic, and just the kind of thoughtful and sarcastic social commentary we’ve come to love,” Azaria says before looking away. from the camera to ask if he got his lines right.
“I had to do this, didn’t I?” Azaria finally asks Kondabolu and asks for a laugh and “Absolutely”.
He wrote and acted in the Kondabolu 2017 documentary. Problem with apufollowed by Kondabolu’s ultimately futile task of getting Azaria to talk to him about Apu in front of the camera. In the document, Kondabolu and other South Asian-American comedians, including Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn and Aparna Nancherla, for the first time publicly revealed how Apu and references to Kwik-E-Mart turned their childhoods into a nightmare.
For a while, The Simpsons He refused to answer the doctor. Months later, when the show finally took up the controversy, the results weren’t very inspiring.
Azaria eventually offered to “step aside” from voicing the character in 2018. In 2020, three years after the doctor’s release, Azaria New York Times he was no longer voicing the character because when he realized what the character looked like, he said, “I didn’t want to join him anymore… It just didn’t feel right.”
But now a new day begins. holiday baby He debuts on YouTube on April 18, and since Azaria joked in the teaser after singing his praises, no one is looking forward to seeing him any more than he actually is.
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