Brian Damage
12-17-2010, 10:24 AM
Yes, it has two overweight leads who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous gathering. Many critics have commended that as an antidote to unrealistic beauty standards everywhere else in prime time. But the show also has, er, a ton of fat jokes. Is "Mike & Molly" trying to have it both ways on size acceptance?
Burrows, 69, takes the issue in stride. "I remember on the pilot of 'Will & Grace,' when one of the NBC executives came over and said, 'There's too many gay jokes,'" he recalled in his second-floor office above the Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank. "I said, 'If not here, where?'"
As for "Mike & Molly," he said, "There may be a few too many fat jokes in the show… [but] it's not what the show's about."
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/27/entertainment/la-et-burrows-27sept2010/2
Burrows, 69, takes the issue in stride. "I remember on the pilot of 'Will & Grace,' when one of the NBC executives came over and said, 'There's too many gay jokes,'" he recalled in his second-floor office above the Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank. "I said, 'If not here, where?'"
As for "Mike & Molly," he said, "There may be a few too many fat jokes in the show… [but] it's not what the show's about."
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/27/entertainment/la-et-burrows-27sept2010/2