EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND!!

By looking thoroughly at various media outlets and especially in television and movies, we can easily notice that social minorities in America are very often depicted in a way that is based on stereotypes rather than true cultural aspects of such social groups.
Coming across an episode of one of my favorite shows "Everybody Loves Raymond", I couldn’t help but notice a recurring event that we all see over and over in many American comedies and movies. The episode was the one in which Raymond joined his cop brother Robert and partner Judie in one of their nights on the job as police patrol.
Judie’s character reflected the stereotyped and misrepresented African-American woman in comedies. Who most of the time have to be portrayed as significantly overweight, talking slang, rude, authoritarian and aggressive in order to be funny and hilarious.
Surprisingly, the American society and audience in general seems to be positively responding to such a depiction by the media, and many movies that based their story on such a portrayal like "Big mommas house" and "Norbit" have been pretty successful, resulting in a common unfortunate trend in American comedy.
In "Everybody Loves Raymond", the character of "Judie" does not break free from the usual misrepresentation and portrayal of overweight African-American women. Instead it reinforces it as much as possible, which is most often the case in every comedy that reflects such a character, by being bossy and funnily rude to Raymond who happens to be disturbing her inside the police car.
In my perspective, I see a lack of innovation and intelligence in the American media when it tries to draw and produce comedy simply by stressing social stereotypes or misrepresenting a minority. But what is more alarming is that most of the American audience rarely seem to be disturbed by such a thing and don’t mind encouraging it as long as it makes them laugh.