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 'Outsourced' Indian Jokes Reference Cultural Differences, Producers Say - TCA Report

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We critics are a sensitive bunch. We try to think like The Simpsons DVD the audiences who will watch the shows we review, and try to pick out whatThe Simpsons DVD Box Set we think people may like or dislike. But often we're wrong, mainly because we forget that, through it all, it's our opinion that South park dvd season we're writing here.

I mention this because 'Outsourced' came South park dvd to the TCA press tour in the same situation as CBS's 'Mike & Molly' did two days ago. Critics threw questions at the producers about 'Mike & Molly'Disney dvd collection being one long fat joke. Today, producers Ken Kwapis and Robert Borden Disney movies dvd basically got the same questions, only about the fact that many thought the 'Outsourced' pilot was one long Indian joke.

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"We don't approach it from a mean place,"Hayao Miyazaki box set Borden said. "A third of the writing staff is Indian. We have characters that behave like characters in an office setting" Hayao Miyazaki dvd As an example, he referred to Gupta, played by Parvesh Cheena. He's the guy around the office you always try to avoid talking Criminal Minds box set to because he just starts in on a lame conversation and won't leave. Yes, Criminal Minds DVDs you've had people like that around your office (if you don't remember having one, then you were that guy).

Kwapis said that "we're trying to put One Tree Hill Box Set a face to the voice on the other end of the line" when someone in this One Tree Hill DVD Season country calls a call center in India. "There's a way to deal with cultural Cold Case DVD Set confusion that's not offensive to either party. It's a two-way street; the Cold Case DVDs Indians have confusion about American culture and vice-versa."

For instance, in one episode Asha, played by CSI Las Vegas Box Set Rebecca Hazlewood, will be in an arranged marriage, and when call center CSI Las Vegas DVD Season manager Todd (Ben Rappaport) questions that, she'll pointWarner Bros out that half of all American marriages end in divorce. His response? "Well, Warner Bros DVD we crushed you at the Olympics."

The hope here is that they ease off on the Naruto dvds easy Indian jokes going forward. I saw enough humor in the cultural Naruto box set difference and workplace angles, where easy jokes about snicker-inducing names or spicy, diarrhea-inducing food won't need to continue.

Most of the Indian actors are second-generation: Dragon Ball Z three Americans, two Brits. They said that their families saw the pilot Dragon Ball Z DVD collection and enjoyed it. Rizwan Manji, who plays call center co-manager Rajiv, said his family found the pilot "hilarious." Anisha Nagarajan, Bleach DVDs who plays the quiet and shy Madhuri, said that "my family was just happy to see such Buy Bleach DVD a large Indian contingent on TV."

Borden told me in the scrum that, even Frasier dvd series though most of the Indian cast aren't from India, they saw tapes from all Frasier complete dvd over the world. "We made the best choice of actor no matter where they were, then we dealt with the visa issues. We (in show biz) have a license to do a Scrubs dvd season show who's one-third Italian and fifth generation so if we have someone playing Scrubs dvds an Indian who's second generation, it shouldn't be much of a problem."

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