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‘South Park’ creator on avoiding Trump: We don’t want to become CNN
The Hill ^ | 07/06/2017 | Robin Eberhardt

Posted on 07/07/2017 11:19:21 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

Trey Parker, a co-creator of the Comedy Central staple “South Park,” says the next season of the not-for-children cartoon is going to be scaling back on political humor, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

Parker, who also voices several characters in the long-running satire, thought showrunners were falling into the “same trap” as "Saturday Night Live," he tells the the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday. He didn’t want the show to turn into CNN, where viewers can just “tune in to see what we’re going to say about [President] Trump.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; comedy; national; southpark; treyparker
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1 posted on 07/07/2017 11:19:22 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

As Rush has said..

‘They’ve [CNN] become a national joke’


2 posted on 07/07/2017 11:19:30 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

How many South Park Episodes mocked Barack Obama?


3 posted on 07/07/2017 11:19:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ForYourChildren

SP mocks everyone. I was actually looking forward to their take on recent events.

Wont be the same.


4 posted on 07/07/2017 11:21:38 AM PDT by Tx Angel (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: ForYourChildren

replay the ‘snuke’ episode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 07/07/2017 11:23:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: ForYourChildren

The job is open, CNN having self-destructed.


6 posted on 07/07/2017 11:23:24 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: BenLurkin
How many South Park Episodes mocked Barack Obama?

I have it from a good authority that it's "quite a few" and that they make fun of "everyone". Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUsttPsqx1k
7 posted on 07/07/2017 11:24:23 AM PDT by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: ForYourChildren

I could make fun of Reagan or Trump all day and night and I like both of those presidents. Making fun has apparently become ‘savage lying attacks’. Too bad. Lotta’ great gags out there going undone...


8 posted on 07/07/2017 11:32:01 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: ForYourChildren
Wut?

You mean South Park didn't really post this?


9 posted on 07/07/2017 11:34:08 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: ForYourChildren

Blame Canada


10 posted on 07/07/2017 11:36:12 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: ForYourChildren

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3FCjeynuY


11 posted on 07/07/2017 11:38:00 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Zarro; All

One of the SP guys said “We hate conservatives but we really f-—ing hate liberals.” Hollywood was spoofed in Team America World Police. America...Trump, yeah!


12 posted on 07/07/2017 11:42:59 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: ForYourChildren

Im sure that crap family giy will make up for it.


13 posted on 07/07/2017 11:43:15 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: RedStateRocker

“Canada; our mortal enemy”

MST3K


14 posted on 07/07/2017 11:43:41 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Mr Garrison ran against HRC and won. But we know that last season began with them expecting she would win. And all that Bruce Jenner nonsense & member berries. Stupid .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Garrison#Presidential_campaign_and_presidency


15 posted on 07/07/2017 11:53:37 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: ForYourChildren

SP you are a fake...no a very fake cartoon.


16 posted on 07/07/2017 12:07:38 PM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: BenLurkin

South Park has always been good a skewering what it considers “extremism”, and that goes for both the left and the right. Although, it’s always funnier when they go after the left. Way back in Season 1 (Episode 12), they devoted a whole show to Mecha-Streisand, a mechanized, monstercized version of Barbra Streisand ala Godzilla.


17 posted on 07/07/2017 12:14:52 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: BenLurkin

South Park has always been good a skewering what it considers “extremism”, and that goes for both the left and the right. Although, it’s always funnier when they go after the left. Way back in Season 1 (Episode 12), they devoted a whole show to Mecha-Streisand, a mechanized, monstercized version of Barbra Streisand ala Godzilla.


18 posted on 07/07/2017 12:15:05 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Sertorius
SP you are a fake...no a very fake cartoon.

Please explain.

19 posted on 07/07/2017 12:16:15 PM PDT by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: SMGFan

That was the point I stopped watching South Park. It was the topic, it was just the way they did it. It wasn’t funny anymore.


20 posted on 07/07/2017 12:16:29 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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