Interview: D.L. Hughley Stirs Controversy
The Onion AV Club has an interview up today with comedian and actor D.L. Hughley. In it, Hughley talks about the demise of Studio 60 and the backlash he received after making fun of the Rutgers women's basketball team:
AVC: The point [Gina McCauley's] trying to make is that while you have the
right to say what you want, she also has the right to vocally disagree
with you. So you agree with that.DLH: Of course I do! I don't negate her right to say what she
said. But look, people like her have systematically killed an industry.
Every year, a television show comes on, black activists get together
and go, "This show is stereotypical. We don't want it on." Anything
from The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfeiffer to Homeboys In Outer Space to Booty Call to Barbershop
to whatever. Now studios don't even make black television shows any
more, because they're so tired of this controversy. This is the same
woman who had a problem with Hot Ghetto Mess—the whole purpose of which was to be satirical,
to get people to look at themselves and go, "Wow, we don't want to be
that." I don't see the world the way she does. My gig is to call it
like I see it, and I'll do it until the day before forever.
For more with D.L., check out the complete interview.
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