White Home reacts to South Park’s Trump-Devil episode
White Home calls South Park “fourth-rate” after episode reveals Trump in mattress with Devil.
SAN DIEGO – The day after one of the vital controversial episodes within the present’s historical past, “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a succinct response to the ruckus they induced.
“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker mentioned with a sly grin on Thursday, July 24, at Comedy Central’s Comedian-Con animation panel subsequent to Stone, “Beavis and Butt-Head” honcho Mike Decide and “Digman!” creator Andy Samberg.
The Season 27 premiere of “South Park” tore into President Donald Trump, exhibiting him actually moving into mattress bare with Devil, and referenced their Paramount bosses’ settlement with the president, the “60 Minutes” flap and the shock cancellation of CBS’s “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.” The identical day, Paramount introduced an settlement with the “South Park” creators for 50 new episodes and a profitable new streaming deal on Paramount+.
White Home spokesperson Taylor Rogers slammed the episode in an announcement to USA TODAY, calling “South Park” a “fourth-rate present” that “hasn’t been related for over 20 years.”
When Comedian-Con panel moderator Josh Horowitz joked that he had a subpoena with him, Parker responded, “It’s high quality; we’re prepared.”
Parker and Stone talked at size in regards to the velocity of in the present day’s topical comedy and making newsy jokes. “It’s not simply ‘SNL’ anymore,” Stone mentioned.
Parker revealed that they have been at their studios this morning attempting to determine subsequent week’s episode. “Proper now we don’t know,” Parker mentioned. “It’s tremendous aggravating.”
And when engaged on the July 23 season premiere, “three days in the past I didn’t know if anybody’s going to love this,” Parker added. They have been taking a look at newspapers and altering issues on the fly proper up till they wanted to be finished.
So far as huge concepts for the season go, “my whiteboard’s clean, dude,” Parker mentioned. A lot in order that once they have been requested to do a summer season promo video hyping the brand new season, they made up a bunch of scenes only for that sizzle reel. “You severely suppose we went and made a bunch of reveals forward of time and banked them?”
Then Stone chimed in, mock severely: “No politics. We’re not doing any of that (stuff).”
Stone mentioned he feels best with “what the youngsters are doing on TikTok and YouTube.” Actually, he and Parker admitted they now get plenty of their leisure on-line and from social media. “We’ve an amazing gig, however I’m jealous. You see somebody do one thing of their entrance yard, and it’s actually humorous.”
Contributing: Brendan Morrow
