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Live from South Park
September 20, 2006 1:35 PM
A little tease for Friday night's Nightline, which will feature an interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the controversial "South Park" series…Which may or may not include an appearance by the following two characters, the one on the left being your humble correspondent:
Says Parker of the past year, which has brought all sorts of censorship issues involving the image of the prophet Mohammed and the subject of Scientology:
"We really were starting to go, 'OK, wow, if this is the new sort of world we're living in, that's not a world for South Park to live in,' because we don't want to start making the choices of what's OK and what's not OK. Because we always get asked that question: What won't you make fun of? What's not OK to make fun of?
"What I think we've stood behind, for 10 years, is: It's got to all be OK or none of it is. Because as soon as you start picking, 'Well, OK, we won't do this,' then all of a sudden the ones you did about that shouldn't be OK either. So we were starting to say, 'I don't know that this is a world that South Park can live in.'
"And at the same time, just like we always did, we managed to get something on and say something about how we can't say something about Mohammed. "
Yes, it's a TV show -- one on basic cable, at that -- but by being on the cutting edge of what's permissible to say and satire, Parker and Stone really get into where we are as a society, I think….
More later
JT
September 20, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (6)
Who gets the rights to the South Park Jake Tapper bobblehead?
Posted by: flyover | Sep 21, 2006 8:45:19 PM
Jake, I think you got off pretty easy - they must like you!
p.s. Did you get to meet Chef?
Posted by: sasquatch | Sep 21, 2006 12:43:43 PM
What a wonderful portrait of you! I am thrilled! Please thank Trey and Matt for me.
Love,
Mom
Posted by: Mom | Sep 21, 2006 10:32:32 AM
They hit the nail on the head every episode. Sure the show is hilarious but, the social comments and points that are made are right on target. Remember the episode about the Mormon family that moved to SP? After poking fun at John Smith and the origins of their beliefs, the show ended on a positive note. Saying - so what if someone thinks this or that religion is strange - the end result is what counted which was how close the Mormon family was and what good people they were in South Park.
OH - then the Mormon kid says to Stan: "You got alot of growing up to do kid, go F yourself".
GENIUS
Posted by: jbond | Sep 20, 2006 5:18:23 PM
sophilly: I think you tied the record for "H"s in a word. That record is held by yours truly, set when I advised a friend back in 1988 that I would not be able to make it to her Hannuhkhahh Party.
Posted by: dkny | Sep 20, 2006 2:55:56 PM
Interesting that this Niteline interview will be on Friday evening, the first night of Rosh Hahshahnah. Quaint timing. Thank heavens (or techies) for TIVO.
Posted by: sophillyfatz | Sep 20, 2006 2:20:12 PM
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