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Susan Boyle Is Everyone's Fault
Oh no! Susan Boyle actually has been kissed. The overnight Britain's Got Talent/YouTube singing sensation lied! Or was joking. Either way, it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that we all stop the madness. More »
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Kanye West Forsakes the Douche Life
Animajapesters at South Park had a bit of fun at Kanye West's expense, but Kanye didn't get upset; he's taking this opportunity to examine himself. And he's decided to stop being a "HUGE DOUCHE"! More » -
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'South Park' Creators' 'Mormon Musical' To Light Up Broadway With Magical Underwear
File this under "good timing": just as the passage Proposition 8 ignited a gays vs. Mormons clash so intense that only David Archuleta can mediate a resolution, word has leaked about the next project from South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, a Broadway-bound show entitled Mormon Musical. The two have set openly gay Xanadu alum Cheyenne Jackson to star, and Jackson opened up to Pop Wrap about what to expect (besides, obviously, the angel Moroni slathered in gold body glitter): More » -
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Listening To Stars Of 'XXX Facts Of Life' Makes You Dumber: Study
· We really don't know what ET expected to get out of this interview with the stars of a porn version of Facts of Life, but we'll just consider ourselves lucky we never got to meet Mrs. Garrett and Jo. More » -
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Sarah Palin Goes For One Last, Sexy 'South Park' Score
This may replace holograms as Election Night's most stunning TV accomplishment: While the rest of us were recognizing the historic evening with a drink or 20, the South Park foremen cranked their assembly line into perversely high gear with animated snippets from both Barack Obama and John McCain's campaign-ending speeches. And as we should have figured, their statesmanship was simply a means to a lucrative, criminal end at a drunken nation's expense. Leave it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone to squelch our hard-earned hope that a new era is upon us — or at least that the geography-deficient divazilla Sarah Palin may yet take that long, much-deserved hiatus from our television screens. At least she's wearing leather this time around; that is change we can believe in. It's after the jump. More » -
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Boom Baby: South Park Takes On The President-Elect
Yesterday we asked whether South Park could make Obama jokes that were actually amusing. As we suspected, the most cutting jokes in last night's episode focused on the crazed supporters of the candidate, while the politicians were parodied in a heist to steal the Hope Diamond from the Smithsonian, a dated reference to Ocean's 11. Still, the show had its fun with Obama as smooth movie star, imagining McCain and Obama as secret-handshake best buds and Barack as just a glitzy jewel thief in Michelle's eyes. All the clips come after the jump. More »
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President-Elect Obama In Line to Get the South Park Treatment
As the likelihood of Obama becoming president became larger and larger over the last few months, critics wondered openly how comedians would find things to lampoon about our new president. Maureen Dowd chronicled the concern she had for comedians in a column and even Obama himself wasn't terribly impressed by Fred Armisen's SNL portrayal. Following in the footsteps of Pareene's helpful guide to the subject, tonight's episode of South Park is titled "About Last Night…", and will portray Barack Obama's early arrival at the White House. From the early preview, and how the show has depicted the commander-in-chief in the past, it looks like overzealous Obama supporters will bear the brunt of the joke. More »
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The Most Conservative and Most Liberal Shows On TV
The Gossip Girl kids have gotten political. Two of them at least, Penn Badgley who plays Dan and his off-screen ladylove Blake Lively, who plays his on-screen ladylove Serena. They're appearing in a MoveOn.org anti-McCain ad in which regular kids—including these two soap stars at that Hannah girl from that American Teenager documentary—condescend to their McCain-voting parents as if they were about to drink or take doobies. Har har. So Gossip Girl is a bit liberal, but it's not the only politicized show on the air. No indeed there are others, subtly (or not so) spouting rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. Our Photoshop expert Steve Dressler has created a simple chart that we'll explain after the jump. More » -
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Was South Park's Indiana Jones Rape Too Much?
This week's episode of cartoon iconoclast South Park, in which Indiana Jones was raped repeatedly by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (see clip), is causing quite a commotion! The showrunners were, you know, just trying to voice their dissatisfaction with this summer's kinda crappy Indiana Jones fourquel, Kingdom of the — Wait What the Hell Is Shia LaBeouf Doing?, but people are wondering: did they go too far? Oh, and, ruh roh, it looks like the Indiana folks weren't given any warning. More »
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South Park Presents: 'Indiana Jones and the Pinball-Machine Rape of Doom'
We knew George Lucas had a taste for franchise-rape, but our relatively proscribed imaginations prevented us from conjuring the horror of Lucas and accomplice Steven Spielberg forcibly tag-teaming Indiana Jones not once, not twice, but three times in 30 minutes. But that's what South Park is for, we guess, where the mandate to get tanked on Crystal Head Vodka™ and crossbreed cinema's most notorious rape scenes with Indy's own violation was thriving nicely in last night's episode. We've culled one-third of the NSFW nightmare for your viewing pleasure after the jump; expect the filmmakers' "He was asking for it" defense to arrive here later in the day. [Comedy Central] -
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South Park power outage frees workers from Web 2.0
The power is out in South Park, San Francisco's startup epicenter. Wired and Yahoo Brickhouse — in the same building — are affected. Caffe Centro is down. Jack Falstaff isn't answering the phone. Six Apart, a block away on Fourth Street, is up. Workers are roaming the neighborhood. Got any more data points? Send 'em in to tips@valleywag.com.
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Isaac Hayes Makes Two, And We Can't Seem To Dig It
As if the surprise death of Bernie Mac wasn't showbiz tragedy enough, before the weekend was through we'd also be robbed of music legend Isaac Hayes. What can we say about the wocka-chicka- wocka-chicka-popularizer that hasn't already been said? More » -
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Holy Rainbows Cartman! Are Cartman and Stan Going 'Brokeback Mountain' for Outfest?
Today is a special Gay Day! No, they didn’t pass another fabulous law for the gheys, it’s the first night of 26th annual film fest, Outfest. The 13-day blast of gay film kicks off tonight with Breakfast with Scot, featuring Tom Cavanagh (Ed) and Ben Shenkman (Angels In America) at the Orpheum Theatre. We talked to Kirsten Schaffer, the interim executive director about her new favorite flicks, and the process of whittling all those submissions down to a manageable “225 movies from 25 countries and nine venues for over 13 days, and we expect over 50,000 attendees,” as she put it in her understated way. And also we find out how exactly a South Park movie makes the cut in a gay fest. (Hint: It’s a sing-a-long. All together now: “Uncle Fucker!”) More » -
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So-called recession hits "Grapes of Wrath" levels, with Okies eyeing the Valley
Maybe the possibility of an impending recession hasn't hit home for you yet, comfortable as you are with your South-Park-cafe Wi-Fi connection. But as this clip documents, times are tough in such middle American towns as South Park, Colorado.
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How Much Did Everyone In The South Park YouTube Episode Really Make?
A friend at YouTube told me that maybe a half-dozen people make their living as YouTube creators. Everyone else in the site's partner program gets maybe a couple thousand bucks for millions of views (like our guest writer Yuri Baranovsky). How can someone figure out their personal worth to YouTube? Good question. Tech and media blogs like paidContent keep guessing and making rough calculations, but it's all fake numbers based on spotty data. So how much did the YouTube stars in that South Park episode — the ones waiting in YouTube's office for their money until they all fight to the death — how much money did they really make? More » -
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South Park: The Day The Internet Stood Still
On last night's South Park, disaster struck. The internet disappeared. Stan's father couldn't look at porn! His mom couldn't check her boring old email! And, most ominously and amusingly, television news was unable to find any information to report on. It was a pretty funny horror movie panic homage, even if it felt a tad dated. Click through for the clip. -
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South Park kills 10 YouTube memes for good
Viacom continues to pursue a $1 billion lawsuit against Google's YouTube for allowing video piracy. On Viacom's Comedy Central, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't helping their corporate parent's legal case. In last night's episode, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny asked themselves "How Do We Make Money on the Internet?" and predictably, they find it difficult — just like YouTube. This leads to a South Park scene straight out of Viacom CEO Philippe Daumann's dreams as, one by one, the viral-video sensations that made YouTube so big are destroyed. Here's the scene in two clips, and all the popular videos it refers to: More » -
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All of Your Favorite YouTubers Are Dead
Your dreams finally came true. In TV form, at least. In a love letter to the same internet that often parodies/steals from them, last night's South Park depicted many of those viral YouTube sensations that you so love, from dramatic look gopher to Tay Zonday to that Numa Numa kid (the soundtrack to my senior year of college, sadly), all meeting grim ends in a web celebrity on web celebrity melee. In the episode, the South Park boys try to collect on their "YouToob" fame (they made a video with Butters called "What What In The Butt") by going to a DMV-esque bureaucratic office and waiting for cash. All of the other internet fameballs are there, hoping to finally receive some of their theoretical riches. A fight breaks out over, what else, how many views everyone has and then Tay Zonday pulls out a gun and everyone dies. It's wonderful! [Complex] Episode clip after the jump, plus Butters' lovely ditty. More »
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When Kenny Met Taarna
· Yesterday, we promised you a brainmeltingly awesome new thing, and dare we say, you got it. We only wished the entire episode could have existed inside the cat-pee-induced, hallucinatory world of Heavy South Metal Park [South Park] More » -
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Next Up On Port-au-Prince Action News: Your Weather
· We take three things from this video: One, Haitian Weather Guy is about the lowest-stress vocation on the planet. Two, some videos really do improve upon subsequent viewings. And three, if there's a Meaning of Life, Arthur knows it. [YouTube] More » -
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South Park: Smaller, Shorter, Completely Free
Timmeh! SouthParkStudios.com (beta) is finally live. The maybe a little bit groundbreaking ad-based site allows users to stream every single episode from every single season of the maybe a little bit groundbreaking animated series (like this recent brilliant, sad Britney Spears installment) for free. This development, coupled with the debut of Hulu, bodes well for television obsessed people who don't want to spend money on iTunes. Hopefully a SwansCrossingStudios.com isn't far behind. Oh! And! There are tons and tons of clips that you can embed on your blog website! Just like the wonderful Scientology clip that lies after the jump. More »
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'South Park' Enacts The Worst Britney Case Scenario
After a touching season premiere in which Cartman learns he's been accidentally infected with HIV, South Park decided to lighten things up in the second episode of their 12th season by having Britney Spears put a shotgun in her mouth and blow off 70% of her head. (Don't worry—she lives!) More » -
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Britney Spears Finally Killed In Cartoon Form
Cartoon death trailblazer South Park last night finally ran a Britney Spears episode, featuring her gruesome demise. Not to give it away, but it's not just the shotgun that does it! Oh South Park, you are truly the world leader in animated superstar celebrity tasteless murder techniques. Below, a clip [P6] of headless Britney on the show. More » -
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Isaac Hayes' Scientology Serenade
Scientologist Isaac Hayes, formerly Chef on the TV series "South Park," has a new gig singing custom Valentine's Day serenades for Sprint cell phone customers, via computer magic. There could hardly be a better way to tell your loved one you will be with her from stalled to a clear to OT, washing off her Thetans every step of the way. Sure, it would be nice if Sprint's computer Isaac Hayes could sing classic Tom Cruise lines like "I've canceled that in my area" or "when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else," but it's still possible to coax a pro-Scientology gem out of him, as shown after the jump. More »
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Abbreviated Scientology
Andrew Morton, best-selling biographer of Tom Cruise, says some Scientologists believe the actor's daughter with Katie Holmes carries the spirit and maybe even the DNA of the sect's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. What else do adherents believe? Despite the fuss around Tom Cruise's manic Scientology video, published here, I didn't have the patience to go through all the background material. (Some of Scientology's critics are even more rabid, and paranoid, than the sect's zealots.) But there's a solution: the South Park's episode, in which one character is briefly lured into the cult, is still up on the web, although Tom Cruise forced the cartoon show's owner Viacom to stop airing the episode on television. In this excerpt, Stan learns Scientology's extraordinary doctrine: that human beings are haunted by the souls of frozen aliens, captured and brainwashed by the evil galactic overlord, Xenu. Bonus fact: Mark Ebner, the Hollywood investigative reporter who first leaked the Tom Cruise video, consulted on this South Park episode. Though it's a cartoon, and mocking in tone, this is a pretty accurate summary of Scientology's far-fetched central narrative. And, blessedly, it's short. More »
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'Times' Ed Board Totally Aware Of 12-Year-Old Cartoon
"South Park," which begins its 12th season in October and has been extended to 15 seasons, is no longer merely the crudely animated, rudely scripted tales of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. It is now a studio, a digital hub, a creative powerhouse in its infancy — but with the potential to become the kind of marketing monster that the boys might well find themselves fleeing from, a monster like, say, Mecha-Streisand.
That's from today's New York Times editorial about the recent online revenue-sharing deal between the show's creators and Viacom. Talk about hip, young, and cutting edge! These guys are not afraid to sound like "South Park" nerds; they are down with it. Stay tuned for that "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" editorial in about seven years. -
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Keanu Reeves Practicing His 'Whoas' For Sci-Fi Remake
· Hollywood Out of Ideas: Let's Stick Neo in Another End-of-the- World-with- Robots-Movie Edition: Fox greenlights a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves. [Variety] More » -
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have opened up SouthParkStudios.com, an "Internet hub" — what's wrong with just calling it a "website"? — to promote the show online and combat rampant piracy of the cartoon show on YouTube. It will also host new projects prior to their TV launch. [PaidContent] -
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'South Park' Dream Of Sending A Nuke Up Hillary Clinton's Vagina One Step Closer To Reality
There comes a point in every long-running, Peabody Award-winning series' lifespan when its creative team is faced with the artistic dilemma, "Well, we've already done the episode where Oprah's asshole and vagina find themselves in a doomed hostage situation. Where to go from there?" In South Park's case, it was to send a nuclear missile up Hillary Clinton's ladyflower, in a recent, 24-inspired episode entitled The Snuke. (Viacom's YouTube-scouring stormtroopers have already shot on sight anyone suspected to have posted clips, but here's a CNN report about it that, amazingly, never once utters the word "vagina.") A jubilant South Park staffer wrote to tell us about the exciting delivery that soon arrived at the production offices: More » -
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Tribune Company A Bunch Of Drama Queens
For months now, the Tribune Company, owners of what's left of Newsday, as well as the LA Times, Baltimore Sun, AM New York and ten other papers—as well as South Park and the Chicago Cubs—have been begging for bids for all or part of the company. They've enticed the likes of David Geffen and Ron Burkle into putting together bid packages, even making potential bidders fly to Chicago. (Eww!) More » -
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And We'd Like To Thank Our Attorney, Whose Constant Support Has Kept Tom Cruise From Taking Away Our Summer Homes
The professional alcoholics at SorryIGotDrunk.com scanned this ad from today's Variety, in which South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone say thank you to long-suffering (but apparently good-humored) attorney Kevin Morris on his firm's 10th anniversary by posing in front of the creative aids that have enabled a decade of staggering billable hours. Cute ads in the trades are nice, but in the end, there's really no better way to reward friendship and loyalty than by making someone a shitload of money. More » -
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Magic Red Carpet Ride
Comedy Central prankster laureates Matt Stone and Trey Parker have a gift for bullshitting reporters—only recently they had the European media reporting that Saddam Hussein was being tortured with forced viewings of the South Park movie—which is something you may want to keep in mind as you read Page Six's account of the duo's Electric Kool-Aid Academy Awards: More » -
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Saddam Hussein Not Aware Satan Was Once His On-Screen Boyfriend
It turns out the fishy-smelling-but-just-amusing- enough-to-post-as-fact news item circulating throughout the European press about a month ago, in which Trey Parker and Matt Stone claimed that Saddam Hussein was being tortured with forced viewings of his animated manifestation rolling around in bed with Satan, was, in a shocking twist that we could never have anticipated from a source as earnest and trustworthy as the two creators of South Park, just a joke: More » -
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Exposing Saddam Hussein To 'South Park' Movie Well Within Geneva Convention Torture Guidelines
In Edinburgh to host a TV festival's "South Park Masterclass," Matt Stone told the audience that Saddam Hussein has been subjected to South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut during his trial, the animated feature-length film in which Hussein is portrayed as Satan's selfish and meanspirited gay lover. Reports The Sun:
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Redstone Vs. Cruise: The 'South Park' Conspiracy
We pass along the following snippet of conspiracy-minded tinfoil-hattery belched up from within Viacom's corporate bowels and into our inbox earlier today not because we believe there's any truth to it, but rather because we were more than a little amused at how its author connected the seemingly coincidental events of yesterday's announcement of Paramount's two-picture deal with longtime Tom Cruise tormentors Trey Parker and Matt Stone to cranky, brittle-fist-shaking Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone's somewhat more attention-grabbing announcement that Cruise is too unhinged to work within his multimedia empire. Enjoy: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: 'Trapped In The Closet' Robbed At Creative Arts Emmys
Scientologists seize control of the Creative Arts Emmys, awarding the prime-time animation statue to The Simpsons over South Park's Tom Cruise-baiting "Trapped in the Closet" episode. Not particularly caring about the other races but wanting to generally recognize excellence in pay TV programming, the shadowy sect decided to give 17 Emmys to HBO. [Variety] More »
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