Does 'Mike & Molly' Have Too Many Fat Jokes For A Sitcom Looking For Size Acceptance? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

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...s-27sept2010/2

Chocolate Moose · 12-17-2010, 12:06 PM

What he said. That's what the show is abut !

12-17-2010, 10:24 AM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	Does 'Mike & Molly' Have Too Many Fat Jokes For A Sitcom Looking For Size Acceptance? 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...s-27sept2010/2
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Chocolate Moose Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 21, 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 4,881	What he said. That's what the show is abut !
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