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Toure Show

Hari Kondabolu–I Feel Funny

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Hari Kondabolu is an amazingly influential comedian and comedic writer and the man behind the landmark doc The Problem With Apu. He’s a brilliant and funny guy so we talk about comedy and being Indian-American and why he had to stand up to the Simpsons. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 284 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, ready.

0:02.0

Take what you know, and it's by the time when you get yourself and we are, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I want to know some things to see

0:15.0

I think about everyone you need to get all the things.

0:18.0

I think about everyone you need

0:21.0

I'll only need things with rooms and real now.

0:25.0

I have here seen you wanting you.

0:28.0

Hey, it's a race show.

0:30.0

Okay, though.

0:32.0

Good so a race show. Okay okay though. That might be the best question I've ever been on. Hari Kana Bolu is an amazing comedian who uses his comedy in really smart ways and he loved the Simpsons

0:57.8

but because Hari is Indian American the character of of Apu really bothered him and he made a documentary about it called

1:07.3

The Problem with a Pooh that got a ton of attention.

1:11.7

Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days.

1:16.1

There is a woman who went the distance, who broke ground as the first true influencer

1:22.1

by living a remarkable life. Her name Elizabeth Taylor.

1:27.0

I'm Katie Perry. This is the wherever you listen. With Apu, I imagine you were a fan of The Simpsons,

1:47.0

because the show, the documentary is very loving about the show,

1:52.0

and yet was this, fly in the ointment that like when a

1:56.3

poo would come on screen you'd be like pulling your hair out like you guys were

2:00.1

doing fine like you don't need to like punch down on this sort of a person.

2:06.4

It's a very, it's a mixed feeling, it's a very confusing feeling and I'm not, maybe you have similar

2:11.1

things about other pieces of art,

2:12.5

but it's like on one hand, you realize

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