Call it a side effect of the social-media era or call it a millennial thing, but whichever way you slice it, jokes and humour are being fully dissected nowadays, especially online.
Take note: Actress and comedy writer Tina Fey, who created and wrote Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is now officially done explaining and apologizing for jokes.
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“Steer clear of the Internet and you’ll live forever,” Fey said to luxury fashion magazine Net-a-Porter in a recent interview. “We did an Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode and the Internet was in a whirlwind, calling it ‘racist,’ but my new goal is not to explain jokes. I feel like we put so much effort into writing and crafting everything, they need to speak for themselves.”
Fey was referring to a storyline on the Netflix comedy that involved Jane Krakowski’s character, who is very obviously white but was written to have Native American ancestry, which she denies. Of course, there are a slew of Native-American references that some are calling racist.
“There’s a real culture of demanding apologies, and I’m opting out of that,” said Fey.
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Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is set to stream on Netflix in spring 2016.
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