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Fresh Off the Boat says farewell after kicking off an Asian-American entertainment revolution
With Episodes 115 and 116, the groundbreaking Asian-American comedy said goodbye Friday night after six seasons with an episode fittingly...
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Posted Sunday 1/26/20 at 3:37PM EST
Bowen Yang comments for the first time on SNL's Shane Gillis scandal, recalls his parents putting him in gay conversion therapy
Yang, the first Asian-American cast member in Saturday Night Live history, has become a breakout star in his four months...
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Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens scores a Season 2 renewal ahead of its Comedy Central premiere
Awkwafina's semi-autobiographical comedy has been picked up for a second season one week before its Jan.
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Posted Saturday 12/14/19 at 1:25AM EST
Asian-American advocacy groups call on NBC to sever ties with Jay Leno following his reported Korean dog-eating joke
Media Action Network for Asian Americans and the Asian Americans Advancing Justice are condemning a Leno joke that Variety reported...
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Posted Saturday 11/16/19 at 4:20AM EST
Fresh Off the Boat was a game-changer for Asian-American representation
As Ken Jeong recently tweeted, the ABC comedy that is ending next year after six seasons paved the way for...
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ABC cancels Fresh Off the Boat after six seasons
Constance Wu, who had a Twitter meltdown in May in response to ABC's Season 6 renewal, will finally get her...
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Posted Monday 10/21/19 at 3:11PM EDT
HBO Max orders The Ho's, a reality show inspired by Crazy Rich Asians
The eight-episode series will follow the multi-generational Ho family, led by Vietnamese immigrants who've become the epitome of the American...
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Posted Saturday 9/21/19 at 12:54AM EDT
"Cancel culture" has become a phrase that's almost meaningless, especially in the Shane Gillis SNL controversy
"Like many phrases and ideas in 2019, this one has been appropriated, bastardized, and misused to the point of not...
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Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 3:54AM EDT
SNL doesn't have a liberal bias -- it's always been a conservative show that favors the status quo
Shane Gillis was reportedly hired as a conservative cast member to counter the belief that Saturday Night Live has a...
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SNL's Shane Gillis repeatedly used anti-Asian slur in May, including in reference to Andrew Yang
Comedy journalist Seth Simons, who was the first to discover Gillis' use of the anti-Asian racist slur "ch*nk" in a...
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Posted Thursday 9/12/19 at 6:29PM EDT
New SNL cast member Shane Gillis used an anti-Asian racial slur in a 2018 podcast
Standup comedian Gillis said "Chinatown's f*cking nuts.
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Posted Thursday 9/12/19 at 12:54PM EDT
SNL hires three new cast members, including its first Asian cast member
Bowen Yang, improv performer Chloe Fineman and standup comedian Shane Gillis are joining Saturday Night Live for Season 45 as...
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Posted Thursday 8/29/19 at 2:48PM EDT
Constance Wu on her Fresh Off the Boat Twitter meltdown: "I’m an actress — I can be dramatic"
It turns out Wu -- who is under contract to star on Fresh Off the Boat for another two years...
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Posted Monday 7/29/19 at 1:49PM EDT
PBS orders a five-part documentary on Asian-Americans
Producer Renee Tajima-Peña will explore the contribution of Asian-Americans to the United States, from their first wave in the 1850s...
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Posted Wednesday 7/03/19 at 10:59PM EDT
Cobra Kai has "all but divorced the story of The Karate Kid from its Asianness, or even its Asian-Americanness"
The Karate Kid was a landmark film for Asian-American representation with the late Pat Morita's Oscar-nominated performance as Mr.