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Whoa, 2 Broke Girls' showrunner is something else
I don't watch this show, so I don't have a frame of reference for the supposed racist jokes it has, but it sounds like the press tour panel was a little bit crazy.
Anyone watch this show want to weigh in on this? I'm just curious if the critics are being too hard on the show or if the showrunner is out of line (although I'm pretty sure he's out of line with the remark he made about one of the reporters).
Re: Whoa, 2 Broke Girls' showrunner is something else
I don't think they're any more offensive than Mind of Mencia was on Comedy Central. If you didn't like Mencia, you won't like this show. If you think that making fun of how PC everything has become can be a level of comedy, this is the show for you. As for the sex jokes, I don't think the way the two main characters talk is any more crass than the way most of my friends (and a good chunk of Nesties) talk.
And honestly, Barney on HIMYM is just as sexually crass as the cook and people are fine with that. The Big Bang Theory is based on the stereotype of nerds (likes, dislikes, ability to get women, how they dress, how Sheldon functions, social abilities, etc.) and that show is a huge hit.
I live in NYC and these are not stereotypes, there are really people who do and say things shown on the show. The hipsters are annoying, spoiled and rich people who think they are better than everyone else. And if you've ever been to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, you will see Russian men by the hundreds who resemble the cook. The Chinese restaurant owner, um "herro", have you ever called a Chinese restaurant and found it impossible to communicate to the guy taking your order? As for the black character played by Garrett Morris on SNL fame, well, let's just say that the streets on NYC are teeming with old, recovering addicts who are clean but still talk and think like they did 30 years ago.
People are too sensitive, what makes it funny is that it is true, like when Margaret Cho spoofs her mother in her stand up routines or when George Lopez makes jokes about Mexicans sneaking across the border.
It is funny because Cho and Lopez are making fun of themselves, their families, their friends, and, yes, their race or ethnicity in general.
When somebody else does it?
Herro! Not quite the same.*
*I can say "herro" because I'm Taiwanese.
The person playing the restaurant owner is Chinese and if he felt it were offensive, he wouldn't do it. Same with Garrett Morris. The writers may be white but I'm sure they take advice from the actors playing the roles. Besides, while the character of the restaurant owner is kinda stereotypical, I don't see how the Garrett Morris character is, he seems kinda cool. As for making fun of the hipsters, well I don't see how that would be considered racist. They have got to be the most annoying, self indulgent, self-absored, spoiled, rich people since the yuppies of the 80s. They are the Twenty-something "Thirty-somethings".
Perhaps they're doing it because they want to get paid.
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There is nothing new or groundbreaking about this show. It's a situation comedy. Bazillions of situation comedies came before this and did the same exact thing.
I heart you, fitzpemberley.