'South Park' creators tip their hand: Pro gay marriage, pro guns |

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• 'SOUTH PARK' CREATORS TIP THEIR HAND: PRO GAY MARRIAGE, PRO GUNS
• SOUTH PARK IS GAY
• GETTG GAY WH KIDS
• THE TOP 5 BT, GAYT SOUTH PARK EPISOS
• 20 SEASONS IN, MATT STONE AND TREY PARKER REVEAL THE SECRET TO KEEPG SOUTH PARK COOLAS SOUTH PARK MOV TOWARD S THIRD , VANY FAIR TALKED WH THE SHOW’S CREATORS ABOUT HOW THE SERI HAS EVOLVED, LAST SEASON’S DONALD TMP EPISO, AND WHAT THEY REALLY THK OF P.C. CULTURE.BY LRA BRADLEYSEPTEMBER 9, 2016FROM COMEDY CENTRAL/PHOTOFT.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON SOUTH PARK, NOTHG IS OFF LIMS. FOUL LANGUAGE, GLEEFULLY RENRED STOLOGIL HUMOR, BG SOCIAL MENTARY, KANYE WT G OUT AS A GAY FISH—’S ALL PRETTY MUCH PAR FOR THE URSE. OVER THE PAST 19 YEARS, COMEDY CENTRAL’S ANIMATED JUGGERNT HAS PROVEN TO BE THE MOST ENDURG, NSISTENTLY FUNNY EDY ON AIR. ITS CLOST NTEMPORARY, THE SIMPSONS, NTU TO EXPERIMENT—BUT MOST CRICS WOULD AGREE THAT SHOW HAS ALREADY SEEN S GOLN AGE. SOUTH PARK, HOWEVER, NTUALLY MANAG TO NOVATE WAYS THAT REALLY PAY OFF—LIKE LAST SEASON’S ROBT, SUCCSFUL FORAY TO SERIALIZATN.WHEN MATT STONE AND TREY PARKER FIRST STARTED WORK ON SOUTH PARK, THEY NEVER ULD HAVE KNOWN HOW BIG WOULD BEE. IN S FIRST SEASON, THE SERI BEME COMEDY CENTRAL’S BT-RATED SHOW; BY S SEND, WAS MORE-WATCHED THAN ANY NON-SPORTS SHOW BASIC BLE HISTORY. RATGS HAVE FLUCTUATED SCE THEN, BUT SOUTH PARK STILL DRAWS BOTH DIENC AND CRIL ACCLAIM. ITS MOST RECENT OUTSTANDG ANIMATED PROGRAM EMMY ME JT THREE YEARS AGO, FOR AN EPISO LLED “RAISG THE BAR”—WHICH WEAV TOGETHER PLOTL CLUDG CARTMAN EMBRACG HIS OBY, TOKEN MAKG A SECRET REALY SERI ABOUT HIS IEND LLED HERE COM FATTY DOO DOO, AND JAM CAMERON EMBARKG ON A EP-SEA EXPEDN, FOR SOME REASON.PERHAPS SOUTH PARK’S MOST REHG ELEMENT IS S REFAL TO TAKE SELF TOO SERLY—NO MATTER HOW SERLY S FANS TAKE . THE SERI HAS EFFECTIVELY LAMPOONED EVERYTHG OM SCIENTOLOGY TO RA-FORT NSERVATN TO P.C. CULTURE, BUT OFTEN MANAG TO DO SO WHOUT ANY REAL AGENDA. THE ADULTS ARE CRAZY; THE KIDS ARE PROFANE AND CLUELS; THE SUATNS THEY FD THEMSELV ARE SO RIDICULO THAT ONE HAS TO IMAGE THEIR CREATORS LGHG AT ANYONE LOOKG TOO HARD FOR A EPER MEANG. PERHAPS THE SHOW’S LONG-NNG TEXTUAL TRODUCTN SAYS BT: “ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS THIS SHOW—EVEN THOSE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE—ARE ENTIRELY FICTNAL. ALL CELEBRY VOIC ARE THE FOLLOWG PROGRAM NTAS ARSE LANGUAGE AND DUE TO S NTENT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE.”WH SEASON 20 ARRIVG SEPTEMBER 14, VANY FAIR CHATTED WH PARKER AND STONE TO FD OUT HOW THEY’VE MANAGED TO KEEP SOUTH PARK H FOR ALMOST TWO S—AS WELL AS WHY LAST SEASON’S DONALD TMP EPISO MA THEM NERVO, HOW EDY AND P.C. CULTURE HAVE CHANGED SCE THEIR SHOW BEGAN, AND WHAT’S G NEXT FOR THEIR QUIET MOUNTA TOWN.IT’S IMPRSIVE ENOUGH THAT SOUTH PARK IS S 20TH SEASON—BUT THIS HAS ALSO BEEN ONE OF THE MOST NSISTENTLY SATISFYG EDI ON TV. HOW DO YOU GUYS KEEP THE PEDAL ON THE GAS EVERY SEASON?TREY PARKER: FOR WHATEVER ’S WORTH, WE STILL DO EVERYTHG WE DID WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. WE REALLY HAVEN’T HAND THE SHOW OFF TO ANYONE. SO FOR BETTER OR WORSE, ’S NOT LIKE PEOPLE TRYG TO NSTANTLY RECREATE WHAT SOUTH PARK WAS—WE’RE NSTANTLY TRYG TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHG NEW FOR TO BE. AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF ’S TOTALLY NSC—’S JT THAT WE E , AND WE DON’T WANT TO DO THE SAME THG, BEE SOUNDS BORG TO . SO WE E TO EVERY SEASON TRYG TO SAY, “ALL RIGHT, WHAT N WE DO TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY?” AND THAT’S PART OF WHAT MAK FUN FOR .MATT STONE: AND I THK WE’VE BEEN DOG LONG ENOUGH, HOPEFULLY, THAT WE’VE GOTTEN A LTLE B BETTER AT WHAT WE DO—LIKE ANYBODY WHO’S DONE SOMETHG LONG ENOUGH. SO WE NEED TO KEEP EXCG FOR OURSELV, AND MAYBE WE’VE GOTTEN A LTLE B BETTER.AND I THK LAST YEAR— THE LAST UPLE YEARS, BUT REALLY LAST YEAR, SEASON 19—WE’VE STARTED DOG A LTLE B OF SERIALIZATN, WHICH IS JT SORT OF THE WAY TV IS GOG. THAT TURNED OUT TO BE SUPER SRY AT FIRST, AND THEN WAS SUPER SATISFYG AND FUN. IT UNLOCKED A WHOLE BUNCH OF CREATIVE STUFF FOR .I THK PROBABLY THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THG, IS WE GET BORED EASILY—SO WE’RE NSTANTLY LOOKG FOR SOMETHG NEW TO DO, AND THEN THERE’S ALWAYS SOME KD OF NEW FORM TO HAVE FUN WH.DO YOU THK YOU’LL TRY TO MAKE SEASON 20 SERIALIZED AS WELL?PARKER: WE’RE NOT GOG TO TRY, BEE WE ACTUALLY DID WELL BY NOT TRYG. ESPECIALLY LAST SEASON, WE REALLY FELL TO . IT’S NOT LIKE WE SAT THERE AND PLANNED THGS OUT—AND FACT, ’S REALLY TERTG, WE MA A NSC CISN LAST SEASON TO NOT PLAN AS MUCH AS WE UALLY DO. WHICH ISN’T MUCH, BUT WE UALLY E UP WH SOME VERY ROUGH, BROAD IAS FOR A FEW EPISOS, THEN GO, “O.K., WHAT SHOULD WE DO FIRST?”MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLAST SEASON WAS THE FIRST TIME WE SAID, “LET’S NOT EVEN DO THAT. LET’S JT SHOW UP A WEEK BEFORE THE FIRST SHOW AND GO.”WHILE WE WERE MAKG THE FIRST EPISO, WE WERE LIKE, “O.K., AT THE END OF THIS, P.C. PRCIPAL DI, AND THEN WE’LL FIGURE OUT WHAT WE DO NEXT WEEK; ’LL BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT.”THEN WE’RE LIKE, “OH, LET’S KEEP HIM AROUND.” THE NEXT SHOW WASN’T REALLY RELATED, BUT AS WE DID WE WERE LIKE, “OH, WE N KD OF RELATE THIS WAY.”IT HAPPENED VERY ANILLY. AND THAT’S WHAT’S SO HARD, IS WE’RE GOG TO THIS SEASON GOG, “WELL, FUCK. ON THE ONE HAND, THAT STUFF TOTALLY WORKS, BUT ON THE OTHER, ’S NOT WHAT WE DO.” IT’S NOT EVEN WHAT WE DID LAST SEASON—WE DIDN’T TEND , AND WE DIDN’T PLAN ALL OUT, SO NOW WE’RE REALLY HAVG A HARD TIME STARTG THE NEW SEASON GOG, “O.K., HOW DO WE DO THIS BUT—”STONE: PLAN WHOUT PLANNG.PARKER: PLAN WHOUT PLANNG, ’S CRAZY.STONE: WHILE YOU’RE DOG THE FIRST EPISO, YOU GO, “OH, THIS IS REALLY WORKG. LET’S LET THIS BE THE THG THAT SLIS THROUGH TO THE NEXT EPISO.” SO WE’RE REACTG TO WHAT IS WORKG THE WEEK BEFORE, STEAD OF HAVG SOME GRAND SIGN. AND THEN LATER ON, THE SIGN STARTS TO REVEAL SELF A LTLE B.. . . AS YOU N TELL, WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT.PARKER: STARTG THIS SEASON, WE WERE LIKE, “WELL, MAYBE WE SHOULD GET ONE OF THE SHOW-NNERS OM ONE OF THE REALLY WELL SERIALIZED SHOWS, AND BRG THEM AND BE LIKE, ‘O.K., WHAT DO YOU DO?’”OR MAYBE WOULD PLETELY FUCK UP.I THK OUR BIGGT STRENGTH IS THAT WE HAVE A SHOW THAT WE PLETELY MAKE ONE BUILDG SIX DAYS, AND THEN WE’RE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. AND THERE IS A MOMENTUM TO THAT. WE DON’T WANT TO TIE OUR HANDS AND BE LIKE, “WELL, NO, WE KNOW WE HAVE GOT TO GO HERE ON EPISO THREE.”STONE: WE LERALLY WERE TALKG ABOUT THIS HALF OF THIS MORNG WH OUR WRERS. WHAT YOU JT ASKED, WE DON’T KNOW; WE’RE JT FIGURG OUT OURSELV.COURTY OF COMEDY CENTRAL.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSO, HOW DID THAT SERIALIZATN AFFECT THE WRG PROCS—SCE YOU MAKE AN EPISO SIX DAYS BEGNG TO END, DID GET HARR TO TIE THE EPISOS TOGETHER?PARKER: IT GOT HARR. WE’D ALWAYS E ON A THURSDAY AND S DOWN AND GO, “O.K., WHAT SHOULD WE DO A SHOW ABOUT THIS WEEK?” AND WE WOULDN’T SAY, “O.K., WHERE WERE WE LAST WEEK?” BEE THAT, I THK, WE’D GET BORED OF. IT WAS REALLY LIKE, “OH, WE SHOULD DO A BIG SHOW ABOUT THIS ISSUE.” AND WE’D DO , BUT THEN WE’RE LIKE, “OH, AND NOW WE HAVE THIS P.C. GUY AROUND; WHAT WOULD HE SAY ABOUT ? IT ALL STARTED TO TIE TOGETHER. BUT WOULDN’T START THERE. WE WOULD START WH, “O.K., WHAT’S THE THG THAT WE’RE MAKG FUN OF SPECIFILLY THIS EPISO?”SO THE TIMG FOR SEASON 20 WORKS OUT PRETTY AMAZGLY: ’S AN ELECTN YEAR!PARKER: WE’LL FD OUT IF THAT ENDS UP BEG AWOME, OR IF WE END UP HATG BEE ENDS UP BEG A BIG PA THE ASS.STONE: WE’VE ALT WH BEG ON AIR DURG THE PRINTIAL ELECTN BEFORE. I’M NOT SURE HOW MANY TIM WE’VE DONE THE SHOW, BUT I AM PRETTY NFINT AT LEAST THE LAST TWO OR THREE ELECTNS WE’VE BEEN AT WORK ALL NIGHT ON THE TUDAY OF THE ELECTN, WORKG ON A SHOW FOR THE NEXT DAY. WE’LL HAVE TO PROBABLY DO AGA; ’S KD OF WEIRD TO IGNORE AND HAVE A SHOW ON THE AIR ON WEDNDAY.DEFELY.PARKER: AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALSO KNOW WE’RE NOT THE DAILY SHOW. WE DON’T WANT TO BEE SOMETHG WE’RE NOT AND JT BE LIKE, “O.K., NOW HERE’S OUR POLIL THG THIS WEEK.”YOUR POLIL SATIRE N BE REALLY MEMORABLE, THOUGH. THE EPISO WHERE THE KIDS HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER THEIR NEW SCHOOL MAST WILL BE A GIANT DOUCHE OR A TURD SANDWICH IS STILL SO ACCURATE.PARKER: YEAH, ’S VERY ACCURATE THIS YEAR. AND ’S FUNNY BEE WE SAY, “WELL, HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GOG TO MENT ON THAT? WE ALREADY DID ‘DOUCHE AND TURD.’”HOW DID YOU E UP WH THAT EPISO?PARKER: I THK THAT ONE WAS RIGHT AFTER WE HAD FISHED TEAM AMERI. AND WAS KD OF THIS BIG THG WHERE EVERYONE’S LIKE “OH, THE ELECTN, THE ELECTN—WHAT ARE YOU GOG TO DO, GUYS?” AND WE’RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT EHER ONE OF THE [NDIDAT]. AND KD OF ME OUT OF THAT.STONE: IT’S JT A FUNNY WAY OF SAYG LS OF TWO EVILS. BEE “EVIL” DON’T REALLY PTURE THE SENSE SOME ELECTNS, WHERE ’S NOT REALLY FIGHTG EVIL— JT FEELS LIKE, BLEH. I DON’T KNOW IF THAT PTUR THIS YEAR, BUT JT FEELS LIKE THAT’S A PRETTY EASY EMOTN THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE. LIKE: REALLY? I WENT TO A RTRANT AND THE ARE THE TWO POSSIBLE SELECTNS? PASTA WH BUTTER AND BBER CHICKEN? THIS DON’T PORT WH MY VISN OF BEG SPIRED BY POLICS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDYOU’VE REPRENTED DONALD TMP A FEW TIM ON THE SHOW: AS HIMSELF A MEO SEASON 5, AS THE CANADIAN PRINT, AND BY PROXY AS MR. GARRISON. DID YOU HAVE TO NSULT YOUR LEGAL TEAM FOR ANY OF THOSE?STONE: NO; ONCE THEY’RE NNG FOR PRINT, YOU N PRETTY MUCH DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WH SOMEBODY, I THK.PARKER: ONCE YOU’RE TRYG TO BE THE GIANT DOUCHE, THEN WE N DO WHATEVER.STONE: I WILL SAY, LAST YEAR WE DID THIS DONALD TMP EPISO—THAT WAS THE SEND EPISO OF LAST SEASON. WE TRY TO STRADDLE THIS LE WHERE WE’RE TALKG ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS, BUT HOPEFULLY MAKG SOMETHG WH SOME SHELF LIFE. THAT DONALD TMP SHOW, ’S FULL OF PISS AND VEGAR; [’S] PRETTY HARD. EVERYBODY [WAS THKG] AT THAT POT THAT THE DONALD TMP THG WAS GOG TO FA AWAY, SO WE WERE WORRIED WAS GOG TO BE ONE OF THOSE, “YOU GUYS VTED TOO MUCH SOMETHG FLEETG, AND NO ONE REMEMBERS [ NOW].” BUT NOW WE’RE ON THE OTHER SI OF .WE’VE DONE THIS WH OTHER ISSU. FOR STANCE, THE SCIENTOLOGY ONE, THERE WAS LIKE A LOT OF, LIKE, “OH, WE ULD DO A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT, AND A FOLLOW-UP TO A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT.” AND THERE’S A POT WHERE ’S LIKE, WE DID A SHOW ABOUT THAT. WE WANT TO MOVE ON. WE ALREADY DID THIS DONALD TMP EPISO—AND REAL LIFE IS OUTNNG SATIRE THIS YEAR. I THK A LOT OF EDIANS ARE PROBABLY FEELG THAT WAY. IF YOU’RE TRYG TO SATIRIZE SOMETHG THAT’S ALMOST PLAYG LIKE A EDY REAL TIME, THAT’S ALSO A CHALLENGE.COURTY OF COMEDY CENTRAL.SO, FANS SHOULDN’T EXPECT A RACE PTG A GARRISON/JENNER TICKET AGAST CLTON.PARKER: THERE’S NOT A GUARANTEE OF ANYTHG. THE SATURDAY BEFORE THE SHOW AIRS, WE ULD GUARANTEE WHAT ’S ABOUT. WE MOVE ON SO FAST, WHICH IS WHY WE N DO THIS SHOW. I GET BORED WH SOMETHG SO FAST, NO MATTER WHAT IS. THGS HAVE TO BE H, AND SO WE TRY NOT TO TALK ABOUT THEM TOO MUCH BEFORE WE START TO GET THE STUD.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDYOU’VE SAID BEFORE THAT YOU WON’T END THE SHOW UNTIL GETS NCELLED. IS THAT STILL THE PLAN?PARKER: I THK WHAT WE SAID IS LIKE, WE’RE THOSE KIDS THAT ARE NEVER GONNA EXCE OURSELV OM THE TABLE. WE’RE GONNA WA TO BE EXCED. WE’RE GONNA WA TO BE THROWN OUT. IT’S JT BEEN A MENTALY FOR —AND A WAY ’S BEEN A HEALTHY MENTALY—THAT WE, OM THE BEGNG, THOUGHT, “O.K., WELL, THIS ISN’T GONNA LAST. ANY MUTE NOW WE’RE GONNA GET N OUT OF TOWN.”AND THAT WAS PART OF THE FEELG OF LAST SEASON; THAT’S WHEN WE REALLY STARTED TO FEEL, O.K., THIS MIGHT BE . WE MIGHT BE GETTG N OUT OF TOWN. THE WAY THGS ARE GOG, THIS MIGHT BE ABOUT FOR . AND SO WAS ALG WH THAT SORT OF—’S NOT EVEN REALLY FEAR. PART OF ’S FEAR, AND PART OF ’S LIKE, “OH, FALLY. GOD, WHAT TOOK YOU GUYS SO LONG?”*STONE: * YEAH, AND I MEAN, WE’RE OLD. WE’RE MARRIED WH KIDS. WHEN WE STARTED, WE WERE THE ASSHOL OM COLORADO, AND WE’VE BEEN DOG SO LONG THAT TELEVISN HAS CHANGED. BUT ’D JT BE WEIRD IF WE DIDN’T CHANGE, TOO, AND DIDN’T HAVE AN ATTU.COMEDY’S CHANGED, AND I THOUGHT LAST SEASON WAS REALLY SPIRED BY HONT NVERSATNS. P.C. PRCIPAL EMBODI A NEW KD OF A NEW POLIL RRECTNS, SOME OF THE STUFF THAT WE [HAVE] TALKED ABOUT WH EDIANS: “MY JOK DON’T PLAY LLEGE,” AND “SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T LIKE THE SAME JOK.” AND ’S LIKE, “WELL, ARE WE OLD?” DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT’S LIKE, “IS THIS POLIL RRECTNS GONE WILD, OR ARE WE JT OLD?” AND ’S KD OF BOTH.SOME DAY, YOU’RE THE OLD GUY. AT SOME POT, YOU ARE. AND MAYBE A LOT OF PEOPLE THK WE ALREADY ARE.PARKER: WHAT I ALSO THOUGHT WAS TERTG ABOUT LAST SEASON WAS HOW MUCH CENTERED AROUND THE ADULTS. WE ED TO BE REALLY SRED OF THAT, AND SLOWLY RANDY—STAN’S DAD—BEME JT AS BIG A CHARACTER, IF NOT BIGGER, THAN STAN. NOW, RANDY’S SH IS WHAT’S FUNNY TO . AND WE WERE JOKG THAT LUCKILY, STAN HAS A GRANDPA. BEE NOW ’S GONG TO START FOCG ON STAN’S GRANDPA.OH, GOOD!PARKER: AND THAT’S WHAT’S ACTUALLY BEEN OL: WE’VE NEVER SAID, “O.K., WELL, WHAT ARE THE KIDS LIKE THE DAYS? WE WANT TO MAKE OUR IENDS LGH, AND NOW OUR IENDS ARE OLD FARTS, TOO.STONE: I THK ONE OF THE SECRETS OF SOUTH PARK—WE LERALLY JT FIGURED THIS OUT AT SOME POT LAST YEAR—WE NOTICED WE DON’T HAVE TEENAGERS, AND WE DON’T HAVE LLEGE KIDS OUR SHOW, REALLY. THERE’S KIDS AND THERE’S ADULTS. AND THOSE TWO SIS OF HUMANY. AND WE DON’T HAVE ANY REPRENTATN OF ACTUALLY CURRENT, OL KIDS, BEE WE HAVE NO IA [WHAT THEY’RE LIKE].WE THOUGHT ABOUT DOG A WHOLE EPISO WHERE EVERYONE’S LIKE, “WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE 25-YEAR-OLD PEOPLE THIS TOWN?” THEY ALL DIED OR SOMETHG.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSOME SORT OF BODY SNATCHER SUATN.STONE: YEAH. BODY SNATCHERS FOR TEENAGERS AND TWENTY-SOMETHGS. THEY JT DON’T EXIST OUR TOWN. SO ’S KD OF OL, BEE KEEPS AWAY OM THAT KD OF HUMOR, TRYG TO REPRENT OL. BEE WE JT N’T, AND WE JT DON’T WANT TO. SO ’S JT KD OF TERTG. IT’S KIDS AND ADULTS—AND SOME OLD PEOPLE, LUCKILY, NOW.YOU MENTNED CHANGG HUMOR AND P.C. CULTURE. WHERE DO YOU STAND ON ? GOOD, BAD, NTRAL?STONE: I DON’T KNOW—I THK THAT’S WHAT WE WERE WRTLG WH THE WHOLE SEASON.PARKER: I THK THAT THAT’S WHY, FOR , MA LAST SEASON SO TERTG, BEE THAT’S EXACTLY THE QUTN WE WERE ALG WH. IS, “OH, FUCK, ARE WE THE OLD—DO WE NEED TO GO? SHOULD WE?” AND I DON’T THK THAT WE ME TO ANY REAL ANSWERS..YOU KNOW HOW THEY HAVE THAT SAYG—A JOKE’S FUNNY, AND IF YOU KEEP DOG , STARTS TO BE NOT FUNNY, BUT IF YOU KEEP DOG , STARTS TO BE FUNNY AGA? I THK THAT’S SORT OF WHAT WE’RE DOG. WE’VE BEEN AROUND SO LONG, ’S LIKE WAS FUNNY, AND THEN STARTED BEG NOT FUNNY, AND NOW WE’RE 47-YEAR-OLD MEN DOG FART JOK, AND ’S STARTG TO BE FUNNY AGA. BEE ’S LIKE, “DU, REALLY? YOU’RE STILL REALLY DOG THAT SH?”STONE: WHEN WE STARTED, [ WAS] BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, AND , AND SOME WAYS THE SIMPSONS, AND MARRIED WH CHILDREN,—SH LIKE THAT. IT WAS BEFORE THE INTER, WHICH IS A CRAZY THG. IT’S BEFORE CELLPHON, MUCH LS SOCIAL MEDIA, FACEBOOK, AND ALL THAT STUFF. BEFORE DVDS. THATS HOW LONG WE’VE BEEN ON THE AIR. AND THE VERY BEGNG, WE WERE A REACTN NOT AGAST THE POLIL RRECTNS WE SAW OUR LIV, BUT JT, LIKE, TV WAS SO BLAND. WE GREW UP WATCHG SHTY SS THAT WERE JT SO LIFELS. AND SO WAS FELY A LOT OF REACTN AGAST THAT. IT’S TERTG TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH AND BE WORKG LONG ENOUGH TO SEE A NEW WAVE.NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A PUNK ROCKER YOU THK YOU ARE—SOME KD OF REBEL—YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GET OLD, THE KIDS ARE GOG TO E TRY TO EAT YOUR LUNCH. IT’S JT WHAT THEY’RE GOG TO DO. THEY’RE G FOR YOU. IT’S ACTUALLY FUN TO WRTLE WH. I FD THE SUBJECT TERTG, AND ’S FUN TO WRTLE WH WH OUR SHOW STEAD OF TRY[G] TO ANSWER . BEE THERE IS NO ANSWER. IT’S JT A DYNAMIC BETWEEN YOUNG PEOPLE AND OLD PEOPLE.THIS TERVIEW HAS BEEN EDED AND NNSED FOR CLARY.LRA BRADLEY

'SOUTH PARK' CREATORS TIP THEIR HAND: PRO GAY MARRIAGE, PRO GUNS

Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.

SOUTH PARK IS GAY

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. “Gay marriage and guns, ” Parker said.

GETTG GAY WH KIDS

” Stone add, “We’re om Colorado, and look at the way Colorado’s gone polilly the last few electns, ’s now gay-iendly, weed-iendly, gun-iendly. Parker and Stone received their first Emmy Award nomatn for the show’s fourth episo, which bore a typilly flammatory tle, “Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ri.

When South Park began, was a time where was unual for an openly gay character to exist a rtoon, even an mature one. Crics and dience members praised at the time for social novatn by havg homosexuals be rporated to s st. Even for some time after, was wily regnised that South Park was pneerg by ‘normalisg’ the gay muny and for beg clive.

THE TOP 5 BT, GAYT SOUTH PARK EPISOS

In an early episo, a character named Big Gay Al sence promoted acceptance of the gay muny. In the episo "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ri", homosexual animals were seen to be shunned and brought to shelter by Big Gay Al, who took the character Stan on a boat ri to expla how acceptg his gay dog back to his home is the right thg to do, as well as how changg him would be wrong; he should stead unrstand his pet's sexual preference and love him for what he was. This dark portrayal of forcg young people to not be who they are is typil of South Park and by the end of this episo the youngsters and Butters' father who sent had him sent there me to the realisatn and acceptance of homosexualy, although may be notable that is likely that Butters did not fully unrstand the tennci though he was ed acceptg what he perceived.

20 SEASONS IN, MATT STONE AND TREY PARKER REVEAL THE SECRET TO KEEPG SOUTH PARK COOLAS SOUTH PARK MOV TOWARD S THIRD , VANY FAIR TALKED WH THE SHOW’S CREATORS ABOUT HOW THE SERI HAS EVOLVED, LAST SEASON’S DONALD TMP EPISO, AND WHAT THEY REALLY THK OF P.C. CULTURE.BY LRA BRADLEYSEPTEMBER 9, 2016FROM COMEDY CENTRAL/PHOTOFT.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEON SOUTH PARK, NOTHG IS OFF LIMS. FOUL LANGUAGE, GLEEFULLY RENRED STOLOGIL HUMOR, BG SOCIAL MENTARY, KANYE WT G OUT AS A GAY FISH—’S ALL PRETTY MUCH PAR FOR THE URSE. OVER THE PAST 19 YEARS, COMEDY CENTRAL’S ANIMATED JUGGERNT HAS PROVEN TO BE THE MOST ENDURG, NSISTENTLY FUNNY EDY ON AIR. ITS CLOST NTEMPORARY, THE SIMPSONS, NTU TO EXPERIMENT—BUT MOST CRICS WOULD AGREE THAT SHOW HAS ALREADY SEEN S GOLN AGE. SOUTH PARK, HOWEVER, NTUALLY MANAG TO NOVATE WAYS THAT REALLY PAY OFF—LIKE LAST SEASON’S ROBT, SUCCSFUL FORAY TO SERIALIZATN.WHEN MATT STONE AND TREY PARKER FIRST STARTED WORK ON SOUTH PARK, THEY NEVER ULD HAVE KNOWN HOW BIG WOULD BEE. IN S FIRST SEASON, THE SERI BEME COMEDY CENTRAL’S BT-RATED SHOW; BY S SEND, WAS MORE-WATCHED THAN ANY NON-SPORTS SHOW BASIC BLE HISTORY. RATGS HAVE FLUCTUATED SCE THEN, BUT SOUTH PARK STILL DRAWS BOTH DIENC AND CRIL ACCLAIM. ITS MOST RECENT OUTSTANDG ANIMATED PROGRAM EMMY ME JT THREE YEARS AGO, FOR AN EPISO LLED “RAISG THE BAR”—WHICH WEAV TOGETHER PLOTL CLUDG CARTMAN EMBRACG HIS OBY, TOKEN MAKG A SECRET REALY SERI ABOUT HIS IEND LLED HERE COM FATTY DOO DOO, AND JAM CAMERON EMBARKG ON A EP-SEA EXPEDN, FOR SOME REASON.PERHAPS SOUTH PARK’S MOST REHG ELEMENT IS S REFAL TO TAKE SELF TOO SERLY—NO MATTER HOW SERLY S FANS TAKE . THE SERI HAS EFFECTIVELY LAMPOONED EVERYTHG OM SCIENTOLOGY TO RA-FORT NSERVATN TO P.C. CULTURE, BUT OFTEN MANAG TO DO SO WHOUT ANY REAL AGENDA. THE ADULTS ARE CRAZY; THE KIDS ARE PROFANE AND CLUELS; THE SUATNS THEY FD THEMSELV ARE SO RIDICULO THAT ONE HAS TO IMAGE THEIR CREATORS LGHG AT ANYONE LOOKG TOO HARD FOR A EPER MEANG. PERHAPS THE SHOW’S LONG-NNG TEXTUAL TRODUCTN SAYS BT: “ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS THIS SHOW—EVEN THOSE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE—ARE ENTIRELY FICTNAL. ALL CELEBRY VOIC ARE THE FOLLOWG PROGRAM NTAS ARSE LANGUAGE AND DUE TO S NTENT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE.”WH SEASON 20 ARRIVG SEPTEMBER 14, VANY FAIR CHATTED WH PARKER AND STONE TO FD OUT HOW THEY’VE MANAGED TO KEEP SOUTH PARK H FOR ALMOST TWO S—AS WELL AS WHY LAST SEASON’S DONALD TMP EPISO MA THEM NERVO, HOW EDY AND P.C. CULTURE HAVE CHANGED SCE THEIR SHOW BEGAN, AND WHAT’S G NEXT FOR THEIR QUIET MOUNTA TOWN.IT’S IMPRSIVE ENOUGH THAT SOUTH PARK IS S 20TH SEASON—BUT THIS HAS ALSO BEEN ONE OF THE MOST NSISTENTLY SATISFYG EDI ON TV. HOW DO YOU GUYS KEEP THE PEDAL ON THE GAS EVERY SEASON?TREY PARKER: FOR WHATEVER ’S WORTH, WE STILL DO EVERYTHG WE DID WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. WE REALLY HAVEN’T HAND THE SHOW OFF TO ANYONE. SO FOR BETTER OR WORSE, ’S NOT LIKE PEOPLE TRYG TO NSTANTLY RECREATE WHAT SOUTH PARK WAS—WE’RE NSTANTLY TRYG TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHG NEW FOR TO BE. AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF ’S TOTALLY NSC—’S JT THAT WE E , AND WE DON’T WANT TO DO THE SAME THG, BEE SOUNDS BORG TO . SO WE E TO EVERY SEASON TRYG TO SAY, “ALL RIGHT, WHAT N WE DO TOTALLY DIFFERENTLY?” AND THAT’S PART OF WHAT MAK FUN FOR .MATT STONE: AND I THK WE’VE BEEN DOG LONG ENOUGH, HOPEFULLY, THAT WE’VE GOTTEN A LTLE B BETTER AT WHAT WE DO—LIKE ANYBODY WHO’S DONE SOMETHG LONG ENOUGH. SO WE NEED TO KEEP EXCG FOR OURSELV, AND MAYBE WE’VE GOTTEN A LTLE B BETTER.AND I THK LAST YEAR— THE LAST UPLE YEARS, BUT REALLY LAST YEAR, SEASON 19—WE’VE STARTED DOG A LTLE B OF SERIALIZATN, WHICH IS JT SORT OF THE WAY TV IS GOG. THAT TURNED OUT TO BE SUPER SRY AT FIRST, AND THEN WAS SUPER SATISFYG AND FUN. IT UNLOCKED A WHOLE BUNCH OF CREATIVE STUFF FOR .I THK PROBABLY THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THG, IS WE GET BORED EASILY—SO WE’RE NSTANTLY LOOKG FOR SOMETHG NEW TO DO, AND THEN THERE’S ALWAYS SOME KD OF NEW FORM TO HAVE FUN WH.DO YOU THK YOU’LL TRY TO MAKE SEASON 20 SERIALIZED AS WELL?PARKER: WE’RE NOT GOG TO TRY, BEE WE ACTUALLY DID WELL BY NOT TRYG. ESPECIALLY LAST SEASON, WE REALLY FELL TO . IT’S NOT LIKE WE SAT THERE AND PLANNED THGS OUT—AND FACT, ’S REALLY TERTG, WE MA A NSC CISN LAST SEASON TO NOT PLAN AS MUCH AS WE UALLY DO. WHICH ISN’T MUCH, BUT WE UALLY E UP WH SOME VERY ROUGH, BROAD IAS FOR A FEW EPISOS, THEN GO, “O.K., WHAT SHOULD WE DO FIRST?”MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDLAST SEASON WAS THE FIRST TIME WE SAID, “LET’S NOT EVEN DO THAT. LET’S JT SHOW UP A WEEK BEFORE THE FIRST SHOW AND GO.”WHILE WE WERE MAKG THE FIRST EPISO, WE WERE LIKE, “O.K., AT THE END OF THIS, P.C. PRCIPAL DI, AND THEN WE’LL FIGURE OUT WHAT WE DO NEXT WEEK; ’LL BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT.”THEN WE’RE LIKE, “OH, LET’S KEEP HIM AROUND.” THE NEXT SHOW WASN’T REALLY RELATED, BUT AS WE DID WE WERE LIKE, “OH, WE N KD OF RELATE THIS WAY.”IT HAPPENED VERY ANILLY. AND THAT’S WHAT’S SO HARD, IS WE’RE GOG TO THIS SEASON GOG, “WELL, FUCK. ON THE ONE HAND, THAT STUFF TOTALLY WORKS, BUT ON THE OTHER, ’S NOT WHAT WE DO.” IT’S NOT EVEN WHAT WE DID LAST SEASON—WE DIDN’T TEND , AND WE DIDN’T PLAN ALL OUT, SO NOW WE’RE REALLY HAVG A HARD TIME STARTG THE NEW SEASON GOG, “O.K., HOW DO WE DO THIS BUT—”STONE: PLAN WHOUT PLANNG.PARKER: PLAN WHOUT PLANNG, ’S CRAZY.STONE: WHILE YOU’RE DOG THE FIRST EPISO, YOU GO, “OH, THIS IS REALLY WORKG. LET’S LET THIS BE THE THG THAT SLIS THROUGH TO THE NEXT EPISO.” SO WE’RE REACTG TO WHAT IS WORKG THE WEEK BEFORE, STEAD OF HAVG SOME GRAND SIGN. AND THEN LATER ON, THE SIGN STARTS TO REVEAL SELF A LTLE B.. . . AS YOU N TELL, WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKG ABOUT.PARKER: STARTG THIS SEASON, WE WERE LIKE, “WELL, MAYBE WE SHOULD GET ONE OF THE SHOW-NNERS OM ONE OF THE REALLY WELL SERIALIZED SHOWS, AND BRG THEM AND BE LIKE, ‘O.K., WHAT DO YOU DO?’”OR MAYBE WOULD PLETELY FUCK UP.I THK OUR BIGGT STRENGTH IS THAT WE HAVE A SHOW THAT WE PLETELY MAKE ONE BUILDG SIX DAYS, AND THEN WE’RE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. AND THERE IS A MOMENTUM TO THAT. WE DON’T WANT TO TIE OUR HANDS AND BE LIKE, “WELL, NO, WE KNOW WE HAVE GOT TO GO HERE ON EPISO THREE.”STONE: WE LERALLY WERE TALKG ABOUT THIS HALF OF THIS MORNG WH OUR WRERS. WHAT YOU JT ASKED, WE DON’T KNOW; WE’RE JT FIGURG OUT OURSELV.COURTY OF COMEDY CENTRAL.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSO, HOW DID THAT SERIALIZATN AFFECT THE WRG PROCS—SCE YOU MAKE AN EPISO SIX DAYS BEGNG TO END, DID GET HARR TO TIE THE EPISOS TOGETHER?PARKER: IT GOT HARR. WE’D ALWAYS E ON A THURSDAY AND S DOWN AND GO, “O.K., WHAT SHOULD WE DO A SHOW ABOUT THIS WEEK?” AND WE WOULDN’T SAY, “O.K., WHERE WERE WE LAST WEEK?” BEE THAT, I THK, WE’D GET BORED OF. IT WAS REALLY LIKE, “OH, WE SHOULD DO A BIG SHOW ABOUT THIS ISSUE.” AND WE’D DO , BUT THEN WE’RE LIKE, “OH, AND NOW WE HAVE THIS P.C. GUY AROUND; WHAT WOULD HE SAY ABOUT ? IT ALL STARTED TO TIE TOGETHER. BUT WOULDN’T START THERE. WE WOULD START WH, “O.K., WHAT’S THE THG THAT WE’RE MAKG FUN OF SPECIFILLY THIS EPISO?”SO THE TIMG FOR SEASON 20 WORKS OUT PRETTY AMAZGLY: ’S AN ELECTN YEAR!PARKER: WE’LL FD OUT IF THAT ENDS UP BEG AWOME, OR IF WE END UP HATG BEE ENDS UP BEG A BIG PA THE ASS.STONE: WE’VE ALT WH BEG ON AIR DURG THE PRINTIAL ELECTN BEFORE. I’M NOT SURE HOW MANY TIM WE’VE DONE THE SHOW, BUT I AM PRETTY NFINT AT LEAST THE LAST TWO OR THREE ELECTNS WE’VE BEEN AT WORK ALL NIGHT ON THE TUDAY OF THE ELECTN, WORKG ON A SHOW FOR THE NEXT DAY. WE’LL HAVE TO PROBABLY DO AGA; ’S KD OF WEIRD TO IGNORE AND HAVE A SHOW ON THE AIR ON WEDNDAY.DEFELY.PARKER: AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALSO KNOW WE’RE NOT THE DAILY SHOW. WE DON’T WANT TO BEE SOMETHG WE’RE NOT AND JT BE LIKE, “O.K., NOW HERE’S OUR POLIL THG THIS WEEK.”YOUR POLIL SATIRE N BE REALLY MEMORABLE, THOUGH. THE EPISO WHERE THE KIDS HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER THEIR NEW SCHOOL MAST WILL BE A GIANT DOUCHE OR A TURD SANDWICH IS STILL SO ACCURATE.PARKER: YEAH, ’S VERY ACCURATE THIS YEAR. AND ’S FUNNY BEE WE SAY, “WELL, HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GOG TO MENT ON THAT? WE ALREADY DID ‘DOUCHE AND TURD.’”HOW DID YOU E UP WH THAT EPISO?PARKER: I THK THAT ONE WAS RIGHT AFTER WE HAD FISHED TEAM AMERI. AND WAS KD OF THIS BIG THG WHERE EVERYONE’S LIKE “OH, THE ELECTN, THE ELECTN—WHAT ARE YOU GOG TO DO, GUYS?” AND WE’RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT EHER ONE OF THE [NDIDAT]. AND KD OF ME OUT OF THAT.STONE: IT’S JT A FUNNY WAY OF SAYG LS OF TWO EVILS. BEE “EVIL” DON’T REALLY PTURE THE SENSE SOME ELECTNS, WHERE ’S NOT REALLY FIGHTG EVIL— JT FEELS LIKE, BLEH. I DON’T KNOW IF THAT PTUR THIS YEAR, BUT JT FEELS LIKE THAT’S A PRETTY EASY EMOTN THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE. LIKE: REALLY? I WENT TO A RTRANT AND THE ARE THE TWO POSSIBLE SELECTNS? PASTA WH BUTTER AND BBER CHICKEN? THIS DON’T PORT WH MY VISN OF BEG SPIRED BY POLICS.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDYOU’VE REPRENTED DONALD TMP A FEW TIM ON THE SHOW: AS HIMSELF A MEO SEASON 5, AS THE CANADIAN PRINT, AND BY PROXY AS MR. GARRISON. DID YOU HAVE TO NSULT YOUR LEGAL TEAM FOR ANY OF THOSE?STONE: NO; ONCE THEY’RE NNG FOR PRINT, YOU N PRETTY MUCH DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WH SOMEBODY, I THK.PARKER: ONCE YOU’RE TRYG TO BE THE GIANT DOUCHE, THEN WE N DO WHATEVER.STONE: I WILL SAY, LAST YEAR WE DID THIS DONALD TMP EPISO—THAT WAS THE SEND EPISO OF LAST SEASON. WE TRY TO STRADDLE THIS LE WHERE WE’RE TALKG ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS, BUT HOPEFULLY MAKG SOMETHG WH SOME SHELF LIFE. THAT DONALD TMP SHOW, ’S FULL OF PISS AND VEGAR; [’S] PRETTY HARD. EVERYBODY [WAS THKG] AT THAT POT THAT THE DONALD TMP THG WAS GOG TO FA AWAY, SO WE WERE WORRIED WAS GOG TO BE ONE OF THOSE, “YOU GUYS VTED TOO MUCH SOMETHG FLEETG, AND NO ONE REMEMBERS [ NOW].” BUT NOW WE’RE ON THE OTHER SI OF .WE’VE DONE THIS WH OTHER ISSU. FOR STANCE, THE SCIENTOLOGY ONE, THERE WAS LIKE A LOT OF, LIKE, “OH, WE ULD DO A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT, AND A FOLLOW-UP TO A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT.” AND THERE’S A POT WHERE ’S LIKE, WE DID A SHOW ABOUT THAT. WE WANT TO MOVE ON. WE ALREADY DID THIS DONALD TMP EPISO—AND REAL LIFE IS OUTNNG SATIRE THIS YEAR. I THK A LOT OF EDIANS ARE PROBABLY FEELG THAT WAY. IF YOU’RE TRYG TO SATIRIZE SOMETHG THAT’S ALMOST PLAYG LIKE A EDY REAL TIME, THAT’S ALSO A CHALLENGE.COURTY OF COMEDY CENTRAL.SO, FANS SHOULDN’T EXPECT A RACE PTG A GARRISON/JENNER TICKET AGAST CLTON.PARKER: THERE’S NOT A GUARANTEE OF ANYTHG. THE SATURDAY BEFORE THE SHOW AIRS, WE ULD GUARANTEE WHAT ’S ABOUT. WE MOVE ON SO FAST, WHICH IS WHY WE N DO THIS SHOW. I GET BORED WH SOMETHG SO FAST, NO MATTER WHAT IS. THGS HAVE TO BE H, AND SO WE TRY NOT TO TALK ABOUT THEM TOO MUCH BEFORE WE START TO GET THE STUD.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDYOU’VE SAID BEFORE THAT YOU WON’T END THE SHOW UNTIL GETS NCELLED. IS THAT STILL THE PLAN?PARKER: I THK WHAT WE SAID IS LIKE, WE’RE THOSE KIDS THAT ARE NEVER GONNA EXCE OURSELV OM THE TABLE. WE’RE GONNA WA TO BE EXCED. WE’RE GONNA WA TO BE THROWN OUT. IT’S JT BEEN A MENTALY FOR —AND A WAY ’S BEEN A HEALTHY MENTALY—THAT WE, OM THE BEGNG, THOUGHT, “O.K., WELL, THIS ISN’T GONNA LAST. ANY MUTE NOW WE’RE GONNA GET N OUT OF TOWN.”AND THAT WAS PART OF THE FEELG OF LAST SEASON; THAT’S WHEN WE REALLY STARTED TO FEEL, O.K., THIS MIGHT BE . WE MIGHT BE GETTG N OUT OF TOWN. THE WAY THGS ARE GOG, THIS MIGHT BE ABOUT FOR . AND SO WAS ALG WH THAT SORT OF—’S NOT EVEN REALLY FEAR. PART OF ’S FEAR, AND PART OF ’S LIKE, “OH, FALLY. GOD, WHAT TOOK YOU GUYS SO LONG?”*STONE: * YEAH, AND I MEAN, WE’RE OLD. WE’RE MARRIED WH KIDS. WHEN WE STARTED, WE WERE THE ASSHOL OM COLORADO, AND WE’VE BEEN DOG SO LONG THAT TELEVISN HAS CHANGED. BUT ’D JT BE WEIRD IF WE DIDN’T CHANGE, TOO, AND DIDN’T HAVE AN ATTU.COMEDY’S CHANGED, AND I THOUGHT LAST SEASON WAS REALLY SPIRED BY HONT NVERSATNS. P.C. PRCIPAL EMBODI A NEW KD OF A NEW POLIL RRECTNS, SOME OF THE STUFF THAT WE [HAVE] TALKED ABOUT WH EDIANS: “MY JOK DON’T PLAY LLEGE,” AND “SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T LIKE THE SAME JOK.” AND ’S LIKE, “WELL, ARE WE OLD?” DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT’S LIKE, “IS THIS POLIL RRECTNS GONE WILD, OR ARE WE JT OLD?” AND ’S KD OF BOTH.SOME DAY, YOU’RE THE OLD GUY. AT SOME POT, YOU ARE. AND MAYBE A LOT OF PEOPLE THK WE ALREADY ARE.PARKER: WHAT I ALSO THOUGHT WAS TERTG ABOUT LAST SEASON WAS HOW MUCH CENTERED AROUND THE ADULTS. WE ED TO BE REALLY SRED OF THAT, AND SLOWLY RANDY—STAN’S DAD—BEME JT AS BIG A CHARACTER, IF NOT BIGGER, THAN STAN. NOW, RANDY’S SH IS WHAT’S FUNNY TO . AND WE WERE JOKG THAT LUCKILY, STAN HAS A GRANDPA. BEE NOW ’S GONG TO START FOCG ON STAN’S GRANDPA.OH, GOOD!PARKER: AND THAT’S WHAT’S ACTUALLY BEEN OL: WE’VE NEVER SAID, “O.K., WELL, WHAT ARE THE KIDS LIKE THE DAYS? WE WANT TO MAKE OUR IENDS LGH, AND NOW OUR IENDS ARE OLD FARTS, TOO.STONE: I THK ONE OF THE SECRETS OF SOUTH PARK—WE LERALLY JT FIGURED THIS OUT AT SOME POT LAST YEAR—WE NOTICED WE DON’T HAVE TEENAGERS, AND WE DON’T HAVE LLEGE KIDS OUR SHOW, REALLY. THERE’S KIDS AND THERE’S ADULTS. AND THOSE TWO SIS OF HUMANY. AND WE DON’T HAVE ANY REPRENTATN OF ACTUALLY CURRENT, OL KIDS, BEE WE HAVE NO IA [WHAT THEY’RE LIKE].WE THOUGHT ABOUT DOG A WHOLE EPISO WHERE EVERYONE’S LIKE, “WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE 25-YEAR-OLD PEOPLE THIS TOWN?” THEY ALL DIED OR SOMETHG.MOST POPULARTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORDWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDSOME SORT OF BODY SNATCHER SUATN.STONE: YEAH. BODY SNATCHERS FOR TEENAGERS AND TWENTY-SOMETHGS. THEY JT DON’T EXIST OUR TOWN. SO ’S KD OF OL, BEE KEEPS AWAY OM THAT KD OF HUMOR, TRYG TO REPRENT OL. BEE WE JT N’T, AND WE JT DON’T WANT TO. SO ’S JT KD OF TERTG. IT’S KIDS AND ADULTS—AND SOME OLD PEOPLE, LUCKILY, NOW.YOU MENTNED CHANGG HUMOR AND P.C. CULTURE. WHERE DO YOU STAND ON ? GOOD, BAD, NTRAL?STONE: I DON’T KNOW—I THK THAT’S WHAT WE WERE WRTLG WH THE WHOLE SEASON.PARKER: I THK THAT THAT’S WHY, FOR , MA LAST SEASON SO TERTG, BEE THAT’S EXACTLY THE QUTN WE WERE ALG WH. IS, “OH, FUCK, ARE WE THE OLD—DO WE NEED TO GO? SHOULD WE?” AND I DON’T THK THAT WE ME TO ANY REAL ANSWERS..YOU KNOW HOW THEY HAVE THAT SAYG—A JOKE’S FUNNY, AND IF YOU KEEP DOG , STARTS TO BE NOT FUNNY, BUT IF YOU KEEP DOG , STARTS TO BE FUNNY AGA? I THK THAT’S SORT OF WHAT WE’RE DOG. WE’VE BEEN AROUND SO LONG, ’S LIKE WAS FUNNY, AND THEN STARTED BEG NOT FUNNY, AND NOW WE’RE 47-YEAR-OLD MEN DOG FART JOK, AND ’S STARTG TO BE FUNNY AGA. BEE ’S LIKE, “DU, REALLY? YOU’RE STILL REALLY DOG THAT SH?”STONE: WHEN WE STARTED, [ WAS] BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD, AND , AND SOME WAYS THE SIMPSONS, AND MARRIED WH CHILDREN,—SH LIKE THAT. IT WAS BEFORE THE INTER, WHICH IS A CRAZY THG. IT’S BEFORE CELLPHON, MUCH LS SOCIAL MEDIA, FACEBOOK, AND ALL THAT STUFF. BEFORE DVDS. THATS HOW LONG WE’VE BEEN ON THE AIR. AND THE VERY BEGNG, WE WERE A REACTN NOT AGAST THE POLIL RRECTNS WE SAW OUR LIV, BUT JT, LIKE, TV WAS SO BLAND. WE GREW UP WATCHG SHTY SS THAT WERE JT SO LIFELS. AND SO WAS FELY A LOT OF REACTN AGAST THAT. IT’S TERTG TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH AND BE WORKG LONG ENOUGH TO SEE A NEW WAVE.NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A PUNK ROCKER YOU THK YOU ARE—SOME KD OF REBEL—YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GET OLD, THE KIDS ARE GOG TO E TRY TO EAT YOUR LUNCH. IT’S JT WHAT THEY’RE GOG TO DO. THEY’RE G FOR YOU. IT’S ACTUALLY FUN TO WRTLE WH. I FD THE SUBJECT TERTG, AND ’S FUN TO WRTLE WH WH OUR SHOW STEAD OF TRY[G] TO ANSWER . BEE THERE IS NO ANSWER. IT’S JT A DYNAMIC BETWEEN YOUNG PEOPLE AND OLD PEOPLE.THIS TERVIEW HAS BEEN EDED AND NNSED FOR CLARY.LRA BRADLEY

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