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Obsidian's CEO talks about meeting Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and kick-starting development of an RPG that will stay true to the show's roots, vulgar language and all.

MTV’s college network, mtvU, has crowned “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone as its “Men of the Year.”

They still haven't found a line they won't cross. The latest taboo busted wide open by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone is religion. It's a comedic assault on religious dogma called "The Book of Mormon" and it's currently the hottest show on Broadway. Steve Kroft talks to the pair about that musical comedy and brings "60 Minutes" cameras to observe the creative process that's kept the foul-mouthed school boys of "South Park" at the top of the basic cable television heap for years.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have confirmed to EW that they plan to adapt their Broadway hit The Book of Mormon for the big screen.

Shortly after “South Park’s” midseason finale aired last week, fans (and many television critics) predicted that the end was near for the long-running series. After all, a cynical episode framed around the notion of that we’re all getting too old to appreciate more of the same must mean the show is on the way out, right? Wrong.

The profane and hysterical "The Book of Mormon" took home nine Tony Awards on Sunday including the prize for best musical, a considerable achievement for a pair of first-time Broadway playwrights known more for their raunchy cartoons featuring potty-mouthed kids. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the Emmy Award-winning "South Park," found a kindred soul in Robert Lopez, who co-wrote the Tony-winning "Avenue Q," and all three found themselves with plenty of awards when they collaborated to gently mock Mormons and send-up Broadway itself. Collecting the best musical prize, a subdued Parker, who tied Josh Logan of "South Pacific"...

South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone describe their Broadway Musical, The Book of Mormon, as an “atheist love letter to religion.” The show, which opens March 24, tells the story of two young missionaries who travel to a troubled area of Africa — beset by AIDS, poverty, a warlord who likes to force clitoridectomies, and just, overall, lots of despair — to spread their faith. We spoke with the pair at length about just why they love and are obsessed with Mormons, how Star Wars is a religion, and the future of South Park.

No one has seen Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s musical comedy “The Book of Mormon” yet. It doesn’t start previews on Broadway until the end of February. But early chatter from the Mormon community is already divided between those eager to see the show, and a more conservative group who views the play as another instance of persecution against their faith. John Dehlin, 41, of Logan, Utah has already purchased his tickets to the Broadway musical and will be flying to New York with a group of 10 people (only one of whom isn’t Mormon) on March 25th. He says...

Norris and all Americans currently live under the "Rushdie Rules," which punish whoever disrespects Islam, Muhammad, or the Koran. Make fun of Muhammad and you're on your own. Local and national politicians had nothing to say about her plight. Journalists, usually keen to protect one of their own, went silent. No organization sprung up to raise money for her protection.

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Throughout civilization, there have been those who have attempted to find humor at the expense of others. This has been the case in American history as well. People who are different because of their social class, skin color, ethnic or religious backgrounds have often been the butt of the most vile so-called humor. However, supposedly, we now live in a time of tolerance. Yet it is clear there are certain groups who apparently are fair game to be the recipients of mean-spirited attacks which have little to do with levity. Recently, an episode of South Park -- a cartoon which...

A Web site that promotes Islam is warning the creators of the television cartoon "South Park" that they could be killed for airing a recent show that depicted the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. The site says in an entry posted Thursday that the authors of the irreverent cable show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, could wind up like Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. He was killed by a radical Islamist in 2004 after making a movie that featured a beaten, naked Muslim woman covered in writings from the Quran. The post includes a photograph of van Gogh...

Episode 1406 Press Release From the Comedy Central Press Release: WHO IS ERIC CARTMAN'S FATHER? AN ALL-NEW EPISODE PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL® NEW YORK, April 19, 2010 - "South Park" is in danger from angry celebrities, violent Ginger kids and Mecha Streisand in an all-new episode titled "201," premiering on Wednesday, April 21 at 10:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL. It's a tense situation in South Park as Muhammad has become the pawn in the game to save the town. The Ginger kids are threatening to destroy the city if Stan and Kyle don't hand...

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...

Chef's Back, Even If Hayes Isn't 'South Park' premiere trumpets character's return March 20 2006 LOS ANGELES -- "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone may yet have the final word on Isaac Hayes' departure from the show. The series, which has been the focus of much media speculation in the past week over Hayes leaving and Comedy Central's pulling of a Scientology-mocking episode, begins its 10th season Wednesday night with an episode called "The Return of Chef!" -- while making no mention of Hayes. In the episode, Chef makes a "triumphant homecoming" to South Park (even prior to...

Ode to Hypocrisy By the Comedy Central bigwigs (and Tom Adkins) Once, Comedy Central Was a network that stood tall South Park was unleashed, And man, did they have balls. South park lampooned big shots, and megastars who got fat They said a bunch of swear words Man, we LOVE when they do that! They attacked religion. And politicians, too Heck, they bitch-slapped everyone! In fact, we quite approved. But Suddenly, our braintrust Has our panties tied in knots They tweaked the Scientologists! Those dirty little snots! Sure, we let ‘em have fun. And even throw some slime! But don’t...

The attorney for South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued this official statement to us via e-mail late yesterday addressing the Scientology-clowning, Tom-Cruise-baiting "Trapped in the Closet" episode that Comedy Central quietly disappeared on Wednesday night, reportedly because of threats Cruise made to parent company Viacom. And yes, it's really from their lawyer:...

There are several items of interest for South Park fans. TONIGHT! - South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone appear on the David Letterman show to discuss the new season, Isaac Hayes, and more. Next Tuesday, March 21 - The Complete Seventh Season South Park DVD set will be released.EPISODES: I'm a Little Bit Country, Krazy Kripples, Toilet Paper, Cancelled, Fat Butt and Pancake Head, Lil' Crime Stoppers, Red Man's Greed, South Park Is Gay, Christian Rock Hard, Grey Dawn, Casa Bonita, All About Mormons?, Butt Out, Raisins, It's Christmas In Canada. If you haven't done so already, pre-order...

The animated television series South Park has got grosser over the years - but its creators are getting away with it. Hardly anyone raised an eyebrow five years ago when the show depicted the Islamic prophet Mohammed, co-creator Trey Parker told Time magazine. "We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making fun of themselves," said Parker, 36, as the show heads into its 10th season. The first season was much tamer than shows of late, said co-creator Matt Stone, 34. "None of the shows we've done...

Remember push polls? Emerging just before elections, they pretend to desire the opinions of voters. Then, to those foolish enough to remain on the telephone, they proceed to shove political propaganda right down unsuspecting throats. In a variation, Al Franken has introduced the art of "push interviews", where in theory he's there to be asked questions. Pity the reporter, though, who believes it's anything other than Al's latest manipulation: an overbearing effort to persuade the other party his very line of inquiry is wrong. If Franken had his facts straight, that would one thing.....................snip...........................

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone avoided poking fun at Scientology for years because they didn't want to upset show regular Isaac Hayes.

Is Cartman a crook? Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the gross-out gurus behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are accusing South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone of ripping off a movie idea.

Is Cartman a crook? Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the gross-out gurus behind Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are accusing South Park masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone of ripping off a movie idea.

In their insightful and offbeat Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner tell the remarkable story of Stetson Kennedy’s important role in preventing a substantial national revival of the Ku Klux Klan following World War II. Kennedy first infiltrated the Klan on his own and learned its secret structure, terminology, and passwords and then, in a stroke of genius, provided these to . . . The Adventures of Superman radio show. The script writers made great sport of the Klan’s goofy terminology (“Exalted Cyclopses,” “Kleagles,” “Klaverns,” etc.) as Superman battled against them. Very soon all over the country children were playing...

The recent South Park TV episode in which South Park educates the global community through humor on the dangers of the destructive, mind control cult Scientology has done a great service to societies and families everywhere their show airs around the world.

"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have signed a three-year production deal with Paramount Pictures, which released their most recent film, the 2004 puppet comedy "Team America: World Police." The acerbic pair, best known for mocking pop culture icons, will need extra large business cards because they named their new banner Trunity, a Mediar company, a division of True Mediar, a Unity Corpbopoly.

Live Q&A with Matt Today! Today is the big day: Matt Stone will be taking questions live in the chatroom from the fans! The event begins at 6pm Pacific / 7pm Mountain / 8pm Central / 9pm Eastern. When the event begins, we'll be providing a link to our Java-based IRC client, or you can install your own: we recommend mIRC for Windows users and MiCE iRC for Macintosh users. While you're waiting, be sure to check our transcript from his last Q&A: click here.

South Park is my absolute FAVORITE TV show. I always look forward to flipping on the tube at 9:30 PM with a glass of rum in hand to watch that show. Even if it is a re-run I still love watching South Park. Therefore it was with great anticipation that I watched this season's NEW episode last night. If you missed it, you missed a gem. It was a satire on media misinformation about Hurricane Katrina along with panic over Global Warming. What happened was that Cartman and Stan accidentally caused the collapse of a dam that flooded Beaverton...

'Team America' unsettles Team Kim in Pyongyang Special to World Tribune.comEAST-ASIA-INTEL.COMWednesday, February 9, 2005 The caricature of North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-Il, in the film, "Team America: World Police," is striking a discordant note among North Korean officials, and probably their supreme leader himself, despite his well-known love for private viewings of foreign movies. North Korean leader Kim Jung Il in Paramount's "Team America: World Police - 2004." Word from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is that the North Korean embassy there is asking the government to ban the film, the creation of Trey Parker and Matt...

Facts to consider: The two have been seen at the Stoned Family Reunion held each year in Ithaca, New York. The content of their films and their production styles bear a striking similarity to one another. They both go to the same dentist. Both boys drive Peugeots. They both have a penchant for French wines and imported German Bratwurst. Oliver enjoys criticizing anything of real value. Matt enjoys criticizing anything. Both collect Jane Goodall documentaries. Both collect the musical works of Judy Garland and Cher. The list of their mutual likes and dislikes goes on and on, but these should...

Just wanted to add my .02 about this movie. It was one of the funniest movies that I have ever seen. Kim Jong Il was priceless, especially when he became mad. The songs were great. One song had lyrics like "America, f*@* yeah!" I simply cannot say anything taht will do this movie jsutice. I will have to see it again. The message was great, as these guys can deliver a great message. Be prepared for swearing, but not as bad as South Park, The movie.