PaleyFest: ‘The Mindy Project’ Cast Discusses The Kiss And James Franco

“The death of comedy is political correctness,” Mindy Kaling said at The Mindy Project Q&A at PaleyFest.  The comment was apropos of some lines delivered on the show, but could be a response to the group Media Action Network for Asian Americans which wants Kaling’s character to stop dating so many white guys on the series. “We are concerned that in the course of two seasons, her character, Dr. Lahiri, has had a ‘white-only’ dating policy involving about a dozen men,” the org wrote the other day to Fox, nothing Kaling’s “strangely defensive” response to Entertainment Weekly on the subject: “Do people really wonder on other shows if female leads are dating multicultural people? Like I owe it to every race and minority and beleaguered person. I have to become the United Nations of shows?” At PaleyFest tonight, Kaling said of her show, “My writing staff on this show is the best writing staff on television…they love women and love their characters”
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Nobody attending PaleyFest’s session on the show asked about that. Ticket-buyers did, however, beg to know more about That Kiss between Kaling’s Dr. Lahiri and Chris Messina’s Danny Castellano at the season finale. The season finale kiss took place on a plane because planes haves particular meaning on the show, explained EP Matt Warburton. “As writers, we can write dialogue and arcs and stories, but ... Read More »

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