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It's a good thing Trey Parker and Matt Stone like controversy because it sounds like they're in for quite a lot of it with their newest project - a Broadway musical based on the lives and loves of Mormons!

It's been nearly three months since Comedy Central aired a new episode of South Park, but fans of the animated comedy series only have to wait for a couple more weeks until the brand new season of the show premieres. Early last week, Comedy Central announced that South Park's 12th season will begin on Wednesday, March 12, at 10/9c...

"South Park" fans take for granted that the show consistently shocks and amuses in an environment flooded with distractions and imitators. Watching the Comedy Central series' Emmy-winning ninth season reinforces why. Creators and former CU-Boulder film students Trey Parker and Matt Stone position their pop culture texts violently against the grain, smartly engaging their characters in taboo topics of race, gender and sexuality. The duo's biggest asset? Their writing encompasses more more than shock value or self-amusement. Yes, potty humor and cheap shots fly left and right, attacking soft-skulled liberals and myopic conservatives alike. But the boys always make an...

>> This is an excerpt from the new issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands until March 22nd. Deep in a maze of adobe-colored huts at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort conference center in Indian Wells, California, men in polo shirts are striding to 8:30 a.m. meetings. Most are gathering to debate recent advances in re-wetting drops for contact lenses -- "I have superior lens technology to Bob, I know that," one man jabbers, croissant in hand -- but beyond the golf course, in a hut with a majestic plaque reading villa capri, six Viacom employees huddle over coffee on polka-dotted...

Loud and lewd but sweet underneath FRAZIER MOORE December 14, 2006 ONE reason South Park is so good is the united front, the shared vision, of co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. "Me and Matt love to argue," says Parker, "but in general our sense of humour is pretty much alike." "We never have that problem where I want something one way and he wants it another," Stone adds. "It never happens, and, when it does, we usually realise there was a flaw in the idea in the first place." As ever, their surrogates are Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman,...

IN LATE AUGUST Reason hosted a three-day conference in Amsterdam dedicated to exploring the future of free expression and free markets in Europe. The opening evening featured a conversation with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of the highly controversial and massively successful TV show South Park, now in its 10th season on Comedy Central. What follows is an edited transcript of the discussion with Parker and Stone, who were interviewed by Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie and Managing Editor Jesse Walker. Responses can be sent to letters@reason.com. Good evening, everyone, I’m Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine. What Jesse Walker and...

Last night South Park brilliantly satirized the loony 9/11 conspiracy theory crazies out there. And since most of DUmmieland consists of such conspiracy theorists, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were also talking about THEM. This was one of the BEST episodes of South Park and if you missed it, you can catch a clip of the latter part of the show at HOT AIR. Of course, the DUmmies were quite upset over being mocked by South Park especially since many of them were misled into believing that the show would buy into their paranoid view about President Bush before...

"We try to never be cynical," Matt says. "I think we're really optimistic, happy people, and we want the show to have an optimistic message." "It's not like we have a formula," says Trey, "but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart."

"Whether we're talking about the primitively animated fourth-graders in overstuffed parkas spouting scatological insults and sex jokes on Comedy Central, or the flesh-and-blood creators of "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone, we're talking Colorado's own."

Comedy Central's vulgar, profane, hilarious animated hit "South Park" begins its 10th season on Oct. 4 in an uncertain place. In the past year, the show and its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, won their first Emmy and were also honored with a Peabody for best electronic media. But the year was also fraught with moments of censorship that caused the show's creators to wonder if the world had changed so much in the last 10 years that "South Park" could really no longer thrive...

The creators of the South Park cartoon tell Jasper Gerard why no one and no faith is safe from their satirical bite Cartoons used to be so innocent. Jerry flying through the air on Tom’s tail counted as aviation terrorism. Now western civilisation can be condemned to burn in hell for a cartoon poking fun at Islam. It is not that slavering fundamentalists don’t have a sense of humour; they are furious precisely because they do see the joke — and see its power. Milan Kundera said laughter kills sex. How much more deadly is laughter to religion? That we...

Subversive animation kings Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a pair of live-action films in development at Paramount. According to Variety, the "South Park" creators are producing two comedies through their re-named Important Pictures shingle. Up first will be "My All-America," followed by the more excitingly titled "Giant Monsters Attack Japan!"...

On October 3, 2006, Comedy Central Home Entertainment will release South Park: The Hits - Volume 1 on DVD. The DVD features ten of Matt and Trey's favorite South Park episodes of all-time, as well as four fan favorite episodes. It will feature new commentaries on each episode and, for the first time ever, "The Spirit of Christmas" short film that started it all...

South Park creator Matt Stone is laughing off reports he has been targeted by Scientology officials following the controversial 2005 Tom Cruise episode, insisting the church bosses are perfectly happy about the scandal. The Trapped In The Closet episode poked fun at Cruise's sexuality and his involvement with the Church of Scientology, but despite media claims Stone and partner Trey Parker have been hounded by church officials, the animators have heard nothing. Stone doesn't even agree with reports the Scientologists were behind the decision to pull a repeat of the episode from airing on US cable network Comedy Central. He...

PASADENA, California (Hollywood Reporter) - The creators of "South Park" lambasted Comedy Central Thursday for removing an episode that lampooned Scientology and Tom Cruise from the network's repeat schedule and for blanking out the image of Muhammad during another episode. "So there are two things we can't do on Comedy Central: show Muhammad or Tom Cruise," Trey Parker said during the MTV Networks portion of the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour. Parker and Matt Stone said they had no doubt that the "Trapped in the Closet" episode was yanked as a result of Cruise's starring this summer in "Mission:...

Comedy Central has scheduled a July 19 airdate for "Trapped in the Closet," the South Park episode that lampoons Scientology and Tom Cruise, reports Variety. The segment, nominated for an Emmy, was removed from the repeat schedule in May...

'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are working on a Broadway musical - about Mormons. The new show - which willView the profile for Tom Cruise on Celebrity Spotlight be co-created by 'Avenue Q' writer Jeff Marx - is currently being developed by the comic duo but is yet to be given a title...

When Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the noxious South Park, see a taboo, they hasten to break it. So they were sure to weigh in on the controversy over those Danish cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The animated South Park, featuring foul-mouthed children, had long presented Jesus as a sympathetic but comical character. The creators were fresh off a series savaging Scientology as a cult of child-molesters. So Islam was ripe for ridicule. But at the climax of the two-part series—in which the politically correct citizens of South Park literally buried their heads in the sand so...

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Well, folks, it's finally here - the most eagerly awaited South Park episode in recent memory!He's Back!!! Chef Returns to South ParkThe launch of "South Park’s" 10th season is marked by the triumphant homecoming of school chef, Jerome McElroy. "The Return of Chef!," premieres tonight, Wednesday, March 22 at 10:00 p.m., on Comedy Central.The town is jolted out of a case of the doldrums when Chef suddenly reappears. While Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are thrilled to have their old friend back, they notice that something about Chef seems different. When Chef’s strange behavior starts getting him in trouble, the...