Television is pathetic enough with all the sacarstic dry faced humor that seems to be in every single show, commercial and motion pictures. Seems that nobody knows how to write comedy and sarcasm is dominating the market place.
Now we have "Outsourced" NBC's new comedy based on a group of Indians (in India) doing phone sales, etc. Of course, they aren't using "real" Indians, but rather combo American Indian-ish actors (I guess America is not ready yet to see real Indians on tv.)
The previews look like pure racism. A room full of Indians with their "White Master" in control telling them all how to act and speak like Americans do, while pointing out their differences and pretty much making fun of them.
Sure it's funny when a stand up does some racial jokes, I think every race has it's ups and downs, but to base a television show on the format of "us" and "them" seems very racist.
America really sucks when it comes to tv entertainment. If this show gets high ratings and isn't cancelled, I predict massive protests against NBC from a few groups.
I can just picture a whole group of burned out angry writers creating this racist shit. The humor is for 14 years olds. "Hey, you fucking Indian, this is how you "say it!" oh gee, takes a real genious to write racist comedy. Those writers and producers should be ashamed of themselves. If you can't think of anything funny, then let's pick on the Indians...?
Shows like this make me ashamed to be an American.
http://www.nbc.com/outsourced/
Hire some real writers NBC. Comedy at the cost of a race is not comedy, it's called RACISM.
There are other ways to make people laugh at themselves and the world around them.... It's called "comedy writing." Hire some real writers and you'll know the difference.