Tim Allen blames DEI for the death of sitcoms and ridicules TV diversity

“You’re one of the few people who made it stick, boy,” Maher gushed to his guests’ list of hits on the Monday, January 5, episode of his Club random podcast.

“Someone told me I was the Tom Brady of sitcoms. When they asked me to do a third one, I said, ‘I thought they were joking,'” said Allen, as he now stars in the ABC family comedy. To change gear.

The Toy story Star thought it would be too difficult to cast these days.

“I don’t know if my generation will make it, because all the people I know I would make it are either dead or not the right gender. They’re all light-skinned European older men, and that doesn’t fit with the DEI thing that everyone wanted. They wanted, you know, a potpourri of…” Allen continued before Maher interjected: “DEI in the cast,” referring to the diversity, equality and inclusion rules.

“I didn’t want to go into that. I didn’t want to patronize people,” Santa Claus star said he was reluctant to go in the DEI direction. “If you’re going to do a sitcom, it just has to be funny.”