‘South Park’ Creator: Show Will Lay Off Trump Jokes To Avoid ‘Becoming CNN’

dailycaller.com ^ | 07/05/2017

[Helicondelta]

“South Park” creator Trey Parker says his subversive show won’t feature too many Trump-themed gags in its upcoming season, a deliberate effort to avoid becoming a cable news show disguised as an animated comedy.

Parker told the Los Angeles Times that he never intended “South Park,” now entering its 20th year, to be a show that obsesses over every political controversy of the moment, which today usually involves the president’s latest tweet.

“We did start to become that, though, especially the last season,” he said. “We fell into the same trap that “Saturday Night Live” fell into, where it was like, ‘Dude, we’re just becoming CNN now.’ We’re becoming, ‘Tune in to see what we’re going to say about Trump.’ Matt [co-creator Matt Stone] and I hated it but we got stuck in it somehow.”

[FreedomPoster]

IIRC, one of them once made a statement along the lines of “I hate Republicans, but I really effing hate Democrats!”

[logi_cal869]

I object to their line of reasoning.

[McGruff]

Ouch, now that’s gonna leave a mark.

[combat_boots]

The Russian collusion story was cooked up by whack job @johnpodesta & despite knowing it’s dead, @CNN will continue defiling the corpse.

#cnnblackmail

[LeoTDB69]

I remember the Tom Cruise “Come out of the closet” Scientology episode and the Joseph Smith Mormon episode. They have done some funny parody work. Haven’t watched much in recent years, at least -

Not since Kenny was killed! Those bastards!

[Secret Agent Man]

Yeah those are episodes 10-11 years ago. That was good stuff. They are not there anymore.

[SMGFan]

Oh, they explained his deaths with Mysterion /s

[AZLiberty]

Nobody wants to be “another CNN”. LOL!

Apparently South Park has already switched from Trump jokes to CNN jokes.

[Grimmy]

Amen.

[Vic S]

I think the real problem has been CNN becoming South Park.

[proud American in Canada]

South Park has a reputation of credibility to protect. They can’t let that fall into the toilet with the likes of CNN.

I agree! They are equal opportunity comics. Loved their movie, can't think of the name, but it had funny caricatures of the Norks and Hans Blix and France.

America...dah dah dah ... to save the day! (as the Eiffel Tower falls over, LOL!)

Darn my stupid memory! Too tired to go downstairs and look at my DVD of the movie. :)

[gogeo]

Team America-World Police.

[d_snow]

What??? Maybe you missed the episodeS where they made Obama a duck, that spat scat from its mouth. Or that episode where the McCain / Obama election was rigged just so they could heist some loot.....