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If anyone deserved the benefit of the doubt, it’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
The rebels behind “South Park” have spent decades putting comedy first. Silly, raunchy, outrageous and crass comedy, to be exact.
But comedy always mattered most. And that meant “South Park” punched up and down, Right and Left sans apology.
That seemingly ended a few months ago, roughly 28 years after the show’s 1997 Comedy Central debut. Suddenly, Cartman and co. attacked President Trump and various GOP figures nonstop.
Fair and balanced? Not even close. They contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS.
Even more peculiar? The shift came after “South Park” ignored a dementia-addled President Joe Biden for four long years, and a Democratic party that has lost its classical liberal moorings. And where were the skits mocking Kamala “Word Salad” Harris in South Park, Colorado?
We’re waiting. Still.
Were Parker and Stone trolling their fans with their Hollywood-approved anti-Trump shtick? Was it a commentary on claims that it’s suddenly problematic to mock President Trump, and he might take you off the air like he did to Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel (or so the fever swamp Left insisted without a shred of evidence)?
Now, we have some answers straight from the source. And it’s even more depressing than hardcore fans feared.
Parker and Stone opened up to The New York Times (strike one!) about the show’s new direction. Here’s Parker on the sudden shift.
“It’s not that we got all political…It’s that politics became pop culture.”
Really? This just happened? Was it yesterday, the day before yesterday, or the past decade when politics became pop culture? Surely, you can’t be serious. But it gets worse.
The duo also swallowed the lie that it’s suddenly “taboo” to mock President Trump. As if Hollywood, Inc. hasn’t done just that for a full decade, both when he was in and out of office.
Remember this?
And this?
No one has yet to step foot in a gulag as a result.
Instead, any anti-Trump voice is immediately praised throughout Hollywood. Remember how Colbert finally won his first Emmy for “The Late Show” after CBS canceled the long-running series?
Pure coincidence. Not to Team “South Park.”
“Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey,” Stone said. “Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there … we just had to show our independence somehow.”
Independence? No show has been more independent over the past three decades.
Plus, Parker and Stone just landed a billion-dollar deal while mocking President Trump. Would a mega company like Skydance do that if artists weren’t able to mock President Trump? Would the company risk Hitler 2.0’s wrath if that was a real threat in play?
Do they even hear themselves?
It’s actually “taboo” to mock Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … because no late-night show or “Saturday Night Live” skit will come close to doing just that.
What about DEI policies? Taboo! The “banned books” farce? Taboo, too!
Perhaps the worst part? This new, improved “South Park” isn’t funny. Satire stings when there’s a kernel of truth at its core. Mocking President Trump’s penis size and staging an affair with Satan just doesn’t cut it.
Sorry.
It’s embarrassing, but maybe not as unexpected as one would assume. At some point most artists sell out. Think Bruce Springsteen, the so-called blue-collar hero who now scoffs at high concert ticket prices and pals around with presidents.
Or Howard Stern, the radio rebel now seen as a softball interview for politicos with the “correct” party affiliations.
Parker and Stone are following that sad, predictable trajectory. It just took longer than expected. Sadly, they’re misleading fans in the process.
“We’re just very down-the-middle guys,” Parker said. “Any extremists of any kind, we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
The modern Left demands trans women compete against biological females. “South Park” mocked that insanity years ago. Now, it could double down and torch the Left for its “extremist” views. Yet, we’ve seen nothing of the kind.
The modern Left supports open borders and doesn’t want illegal immigrants with lengthy rap sheets to be booted out of the country. Remember all the love shown for the so-called “Maryland Man?”
The modern Left burned Tesla dealerships because they didn’t like CEO Elon Musk reducing government waste.
The modern Left lets criminals run wild in major cities, supports failed socialist policies and cheered on the death of Charlie Kirk.
Nuthin’, Trey and Matt? Not extremist enough for you?
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It’s no accident that the media, which has been mostly kind to Parker and Stone over the years, is suddenly fawning all over “South Park.” Journalists breathlessly share details of each new episode like it’s a major event.
That’s a coincidence, too, of course. Zero connection to the show’s sudden anti-Trump fervor. Why, it’s like there’s a financial incentive to embrace TDS.
Naturally, no president should be off limits. President Trump may be larger than life, but he poses a real challenge to humorists. He’s almost too easy to superficially mock, and many comedians go for the lowest hanging fruit.
The hair. The mannerisms. The jargon.
The best of the best dig deeper. The rest let their TDS shine through in every gag.
Parker capped the interview by suggesting more is yet to come. In doing so, he summoned the true TDS spirit. Call it, the “now more than ever!” syndrome.
“If there’s one thing we know, it is that our show will be a lot longer than theirs [the Trump administration].
“So,” he continued, “we just got to do this for now.”
Weird.
The show didn’t tackle the Biden administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. What about clear evidence that Team Biden was censoring voices in the digital landscape? Targeting every day Moms and Dads (AKA “terrorists“) for daring to speak up at school board meetings?
No? Nothing? Now, we get the tired, “We just got to do this now” canard?
Even Cartman would agree that TDS is a terrible thing to behold.
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