Hank Azaria

Luigi's okay, he's a stereotype.

I do Luigi, I know the Simpsons.

How come I can do Cletus the slack-jawed yokel?

That ain't complimentary to Southern folks in the least.

He's kind of dumb.

So, but I can't do Apu.

And the simple answer is that in American context,

Those voices, while you might find them insulting, an Italian guy might go, I don't like that Luigi thing.

Everybody who came to America had their turn to be hazed and low man on the totem pole.

I'm Jewish.

And, but once white folks in America drop the accent, eventually we're kind of in, you know, we're done.

We're in, not totally, you know, Jews, there's, I'm in with an asterisk as a Jew.

There's some places that I'm as white, it depends on the white person you ask how white I am, but for the most part, I'm allowed access.

folks with black and brown skin in this country.

Hari Kondabolu is from Queens, where I'm from.

He sounds as or more American than I do.

He is smarter and funnier than I am.

He is denied certain access.

There's teeth in the biases against him.

It's beyond insulting for him.