-thank you very much, ai weiwei.tainment, comedian and writer hari kondabolu is no stranger to addressing tough topics t he takes on the long-running cartoon series "the simpsons" in his documentary titled, "the problem with apu." it exploies how an indian conve store owner caters to stereotypes. -the problem is we didn't have any other representation in this country. -there was no aziz, no mindy, no kal, no "that dude who was on 'lost' and that other dude from 'heroes' inand that dude that's he apu documentary," no politicians or reporters and no whatever deepak chopra is. this is all we had. apu reflected how america viewed us -- servile, devious, goofy. i nd joining me now is hndabolu. so nice to have viu here. -thanks for me. -"the simpsons" was one of your favorite tv shows as a kid, and yet thu were so frustrated he character named apu. why? -apu is a conveniene very one-dimensional, stereotypical, and at that time, that's the only depiction south asian-americans had, specifically indian-americans. like, we did

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