On June 19, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment titled "Cash 4 Poop" on his talk show.
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It made fun of a new municipal corporation scheme in Ahmedabad through which people would be paid ₹1 to use public toilets instead of relieving themselves in the open.
It then moved on to a fictitious PSA taking more jabs at the scheme and the rampant open defecation problem in India.
With lack of toilets being a legit issue for 53% of the Indian population, the segment did not go down well with a lot of Indians.
Yo Kimmel, you're laughing at poverty here, that accent is ridic & you coulda looked up how to pronounce Ahmedabad. https://t.co/4WmBRHXN4g
Dear @jimmykimmel - do the research on villages,water,migrants & learned behaviour.Also UN cartoon in English hah! https://t.co/pgD2wt55rm
@ShivAroor it seems more like haha look at poor Indian people pooping on roads than legit punchline @RegaJha
@RegaJha omfg WHAT AWFUL TRAVESTY IS THAT ACCENT? IS THIS 1992?
While others didn't see what the outrage was about.
@RegaJha he's laughing at government and it's in competency Not poverty. This is funny. @thetanmay @GabbbarSingh @samitbasu
That Jimmy Kimmel bit maybe in bad taste, but it sure as hell isn't "offensive".
@IBNLiveBuzz @ibnlive @jimmykimmel Ofcourse in a country in which we are offended by anything and everything why spare Jimmy Kimmel? :)
Saw the Jimmy Kimmel bit on India. It's as offensive as Peter Sellers, Apu from Simpsons or Koothrapali from Big Bang. Too sensitive we are.
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