What's the story with South Park creator Trey Parker?

He is funny, creative, and childlike.

I know someone who worked on South Park. Trey Parker damn near died in 2018- some kind of bowel blockage. It was impressive they kept it out of the press.

I've always found him very attractive, unlike the other guy.

You mean a man has double standards for what is proper behavior for himself versus a woman? Quell surprise.

Is that the blonde one or the dark-haired one with glasses?

Really? I follow rodent tabloids and it was all over The Gerbil Times. They even won the Golden Acorn prize for journalism.

I’m with R5, is he the Hall or the Oates of the duo?

He’s the Simon not the Garfunkel

Parker and Stone must have more money than god by now

R9 - you should ask God himself in the other thread!

How much of that money do they give to the Mormon Church, isn’t the tithing quite high in that religion? Are they the Tom Cruise of Mormonism?

He's the blond one, but now more mousy brown, balding and obese. During his break up with Boogie, he is said to have mocked her by basing a mummy (as in Egyptian corpse) on her, having the character stalk Butters.

So he hasn't grown out of that lashing out thing, although she was rumoured to have cheated on him as well, hence the divorce. In the filings he insisted she get no spousal support, so that would be a part of why they got back together, despite the divorce.

What else is an aged out ex-stripper going to do? She appears to have had a fair bit of facial surgery since they first got together, as well as upgrading her breast implants.

She posts a fair bit to instagram and seems to be encouraging her young daughter to dress and behave like her, ie slutty. They're almost always wearing denim hot pants.

They're not Mormons themselves.

How involved are they anymore in the creation of the cartoon? I assume they’ve turned most of it over to minions to run.

Matt Stone is Jewish. Trey Parker was raised Mormon but has not been a practicing Mormon in his adult life.

They still do the cartoon themselves.

Trey wasn't raised Mormon.

Creators usually base all kinds of characters on people they know and, yes, they do get a vicarious thrill out of abusing the characters named/based on those that did them wrong. I suppose it's healthier than acting out in real life. At this point, he must have more money than most, so to keep doing it would seem silly. He's made his point and is more successful than those that wronged him. As they say, success is the best revenge.

Matt and Trey admitted in a SP documentary that they don't get invited to parties anymore and that nobody in Hollywood has remained friends with them because they've ripped the piss out of them all.

Poor little rich boys, the Truman Capotes of the 21st century. Who will be their Joanna Carson?

I was disgusted to learn the reason they ripped on Barbra was due to her protesting a (proposed?) anti-gay law in Colorado. And they've ripped on Gisele and SJP by calling them ugly. Are they really in a position to judge anyone's looks?

Most guys named Trey turn out to be trash.

He looks like a slob who is probably a sloppy drunk.

Ask 1997, OP.

[quote]I was disgusted to learn the reason they ripped on Barbra was due to her protesting a (proposed?) anti-gay law in Colorado.

The South Park fangurlz on DL studiously ignore any mention of that fact. Also, I believe the one guy who goes bugfuck crazy any time Barbra is brought up on the board does so because he gets all of his personal opinions from South Park.

Trey may just be an asshole or he may have a personality disorder. Either way, he is almost impressively unappealing.

Man-child.

he was not model handsome but Matt Stone was sexy when he was young.

I believe the coke part. Just look at his nose. It's Artie Lange stage IIb.

What in the Charlie Brown is going on with his hair in R21? That’s the weirdest balding pattern I’ve ever seen!

When they wore their JLo and Gwynnie dresses to the Oscars, Joan Rivers interviewed them and said afterwards that they smelled like ass and she had to stand downwind. I think I read that here…

R19 Oh PLEASE, they made fun of Barbara Streisand because she's a NOTORIOUS goddamn egomaniac--not SIMPLY because she opposed anti-gay legislation. Deservedly so.

That's why they've made fun of EVERYBODY.

They both got the faces they deserved

They're creative geniuses but not good people. Not uncommon. How many geniuses were model citizens? They're almost always fucked up.

They worked hard for their ugliness

r29, you fucking idiot, Matt and Trey both said in the DVD commentary that it was because Colorado passed the homophobic Amendment 2, which caused a lot of celebrities like Streisand to boycott the state. They were mad about her boycott. They said so themselves.

[quote]In the DVD commentary for her debut episode, Matt and Trey cite her attitude after Colorado passed a constitutional amendment that forbid homosexuals from being protected under local laws.

More for r29.

[quote]The two still haven't forgiven Streisand for her strong support of boycotting their native Colorado a few years ago because the state approved an anti-gay rights amendment.

He was hot, now he's just fat

THANK YOU BARBRA STREISAND FOR OPPOSING ANTI-GAY LEGISLATION

I actually found/find Matt Stone more attractive. He's aging better than Parker.

I used to be a huge fan, but SP bores me entirely these days. And yes, I believe their enormous success has made them both insufferable assholes.

Both of them are married to women of color…I am speculating, but I can’t imagine them tolerating too much of their snark. Matt’s wife is African American and Trey’s wife is Latina.

Oh, R33. You dried up, Madonna-listening scrotum.

And another. Be sure to fetch your spectacles!

Here's a thought R33

Why don't you try watching something before your comment on it. AGAIN, they make of EVERYONE and I do mean EVERYONE which is why they were so brilliant,

They both seem pretty Libertarian to me which we all know is Republican-lite. They still can be spot on about stuff like Tegrity, Kanye and Yelp.

[quote]I actually found/find Matt Stone more attractive. He's aging better than Parker.

This is so true. Like how Matt Damon is now the pretty one. He aged much better than Benna Flick

I dated a guy once who had been friends with Trey Parker and they used to flirt with each other. This was even while Parker was engaged to his very docile Asian now-wife. My ex said he and Parker were feeling each other up under the table at a restaurant once. My ex also had some fancy toilet seat that warmed up, etc. A gift from Parker.

By the way, this ex I speak of was a man-child himself. I was glad to be rid of him.

They are childish and nihilists, hardly role models, but the show is smart and absurd at the same time and make fun of everyone as it should (conservatives are evil or stupid, liberals are annoying and self righteous).

They are still very involved on the show, that's why is still pretty good, unlike The Simpsons or Family Guy that are unwatchable now

[quote]The Simpsons or Family Guy that are unwatchable now

Ain't it the truth. I was rewatching some early Family Guy and Stewie was JUST EVIL. And not funny cartoon evil, he was bottom of the barrel outright EVIL.

Family Guy in early seasons had the cast more down-to-earth. Peter was a working-class idiot but meant well. Lois was the voice of reason and filled with warmth and compassion. Chris was an oddball and an aspiring artist. Meg was a whiny teenage girl who wanted her own space. Stewie was an evil psychopath who wanted to take over the world and kill Lois. Brian was Peter's conscience and a sophisticated intellectual. Joe was a successful police officer with a loving wife despite his disablity. Cleveland was the only sensible character and was a non-stereotype by being the most bland guy in the room despite being Black. Now all of them are obnoxious and without redeeming value.

Didn’t Cleveland get his own spin-off and leave the series?

R49 Yeah and they completely changed Cleveland's personality. He became a clone of Peter Griffin who just spoke jive turkey essentially which was weird because in Family Guy, Cleveland was extremely deadpan and boring with no personality and that was his gag. They also overhauled Cleveland Jr.'s character from being a hyper little boy to an obese and mototone lethargic teenager who seemed like he had Asperger's. They added Cleveland a wife, Donna who was basically Lois and a step-daughter Roberta who was basically Hayley from American Dad and a step-son Rollo who was basically Stewie but also talked in jive turkey with a big afro. It didn't last long for obvious reasons...

The only Family Guy character that remained consistent was Quagmire. He was creepy in the first season and remains creepy in the recent ones.

Holy fucking shit, his nose!

He has coke nose.

Comedians are often people with enormous amounts of anger, which is why it's always a huge problem when they try to pass themselves off as Mr./Ms. Nice Guy when they get big enough to have talk shows (as we saw with Rosie O., Ellen, and now James Corden). I have found South Park often hilarious over the years, but every time I read an interview with Parker and Stone I think they're self-serving smug assholes with huge rage problems.

Do they make fun of conservatives? I've never seen any evidence.

The pic of them as JLo and Gwyneth always makes me laugh because they have their personas down pat, esp the way "Gwyneth" is holding his hands and his upright posture. They are total assholes though.

R21's post shows he's fugly

Well, he wasn't always fugly...

Have they ripped on Madonna yet?

I e heard they’re both republican trash

No, R60. If anything libertarian, but I would say they're more of a bratty contrarian. But they made some really funny stuff.

They have ragged on Republicans…

Yes, R62, that's right. Especially Dump.

I don't think they're Republicans. They seem to hate the government and establishment. And they're smart enough to realize Republicans are exactly the big government they claim not to be. They're likely libertarian just like Mike Judge who created King of the Hill and Ideocracy.

[quote] Creators usually base all kinds of characters on people they know and, yes, they do get a vicarious thrill out of abusing the characters named/based on those that did them wrong. I suppose it's healthier than acting out in real life.

Cf. that quote about Agatha Christie about murdering her husband over and over

R33 They mocked her because the state-wide celebrity boycott she led had the brilliant idea of publicly dubbing Colorado "The Hate State". Now it might just be me, but I fail to see how generalizing an entire state can be productive and serve as a vehicle for rapport.

Colorado's Amendment 2 and California's Prop 8 passed by the same margins, but of course there were no calls to boycott all of California and name it "The Loathsome State". The response instead was calculated and intelligent, exposing and boycotting the organizations and people that supported it (LDS Church, California Musical Theatre, etc). Colorado is too small and unimportant, so it was easy to just brand it Terra Non Grata.

I love Streisand, in spite of all her nonsense. And R66 is 100% correct. I also laughed at Parker and Stone mocking her. They're also cunts. All that is true.

He got cheated on and it ruined his life and he said to himself: fuck it all. I feel the same after my crush got some rando ho pregnant. My life has been ruined since then. Are there more examples of celebrity cocaine noses?

I live in Colorado, and I remember Amendment 2, and Boycott Colorado quite well. Cyndi Lauper played the Gothic Theater during that time, and donated the proceeds from the show to the legal fight against Amendment 2, which I thought was a better way to go than just not coming here.

ABC's The Stand miniseries filmed the Boulder scenes in Salt Lake City instead of Boulder as originally planned because of Boycott Colorado. Utah still had anti-sodomy laws on the books at the time, so that move didn't really make sense, if the reason for the move was because the fundies in Colorado Springs were trying to stop Denver, Boulder, Aspen, and Ft Collins from banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Parker was very attractive in that photo at r58--he has such beautiful light blue eyes, and he actually had a good body in his twenties.

Later he became a fat fuck.

I love that there’s a woman out there named Boogie

R68 details. By crush do you mean you were actively dating him?

South Park basically kept Comedy Central afloat during its early years as an obscure cable network with struggling ratings. The network is so indebted to South Park (and the Daily Show) that both creators have a lot of free-reign over the content. I always liked that Parker and Stone wrote and directed every episode to maintain creative control and freedom, it's one reason South Park remained way more consistent in characterization and writing than The Simpsons and Family Guy which have a team of writers and directors that differ per episode. South Park is written more like a British TV show with small seasons all managed by the same group of people.

I often hate myself for it - but I do find South Park consistently witty and funny. The only cartoon show I have ever liked. Makes me wonder if I’m libertarian - though have always voted hard Dem. But they write good social commentary.

I think like Mike Judge, they mock both sides but I can't see them as legitimate conservatives because they have a strong sense of humor that leans heavily subversive and anarchist. Conservatives are authoritarian and literalist thus are not funny at all. No conservative could write South Park or King of the Hill but then no dyed-in-wool liberal could either in fear of offending too many people. Most of South Park's fans definitely lean left. It was conservatives trying to get the show canceled for years just like with Beavis and Butthead and Married... with Children.

Matt/Trey could be insightful and humanist at the prime of South Park, but in the past few years they've gotten bitter and old.

I quit watching the show after I realized they meant it when they said they REALLY hated liberals.

[quote]They mocked her because the state-wide celebrity boycott she led had the brilliant idea of publicly dubbing Colorado "The Hate State". Now it might just be me, but I fail to see how generalizing an entire state can be productive and serve as a vehicle for rapport.

She wasn't trying to create a "vehicle for rapport," whatever that even means.

[quote]Colorado's Amendment 2 and California's Prop 8 passed by the same margins, but of course there were no calls to boycott all of California and name it "The Loathsome State".

There were 16 years between these two votes, and Streisand was criticized by everyone for her 1992 call to boycott Colorado, so what on earth makes you think she'd do it again for Prop 8 years later? She DID speak out about Prop 8 frequently both before it was passed, holding fundraisers against Prop 8, and then afterwards, where she worked along with other celebrities to help fund the fight to take it to the courts, where it was overturned.

Here we are in 2022, and you and your widdle South Park hewwos are still shitting all over one single celebrity for what she did 30 years ago in 1992, ignoring that she changed her ways and stopped acting in the way that you hated, and did more good on a similar issue in 2008. It's not because of any moral or ethical viewpoints of yours that she offended, it's just because you hate her because a couple of libertarian shitballs told you to.

Of course the creator of South Park has coke nose. That show is some of the highest, drugged-out nonsense on mainstream tv and I love it for its manic irreverence.

[quote]Here we are in 2022, and you and your widdle South Park hewwos are still shitting all over one single celebrity for what she did 30 years ago in 1992, ignoring that she changed her ways and stopped acting in the way that you hated, and did more good on a similar issue in 2008. It's not because of any moral or ethical viewpoints of yours that she offended, it's just because you hate her because a couple of libertarian shitballs told you to.

We are? Because I thought we were correcting your narrative that they’re big mean homophobes who simply hate Streisand because she had the nerve to speak up for gay people--which we did.

Now you’re being defensive. Be an adult. Take the L. It happens to everyone.

The episode with Big Gay Al and Stan's gay dog (voiced by George Clooney) was very progressive for 1997. But like most things of that time it aged poorly. Chef and Token were great characters who called out the microaggressions and casual, PC-style racism of the small mountain podunk town, as a black guy who grew up in a majorly white town. It's spot-on.

Yep R59, they went after Madge

Trey has a little boy grown old feeling about him, like he can be sweet but also bratty and tantrum-prone. The immaturity is why he's been able to make a show about third grades for 25+ years.

Matt seems more practical and adult, though I think he has stronger dickish tendencies.

I can't imagine Stone and Parker are popular with Hollywood after mocking every major power player. And they tend to be spot-on. The only other show I can compare to it is Drawn Together, Duckman or The Boondocks (especially the BET episode) or the first Shrek (a kid-friendly version) which both went hard on mocking certain celebrities and executives.

Here's the hilarious guest appearance Madonna makes when Kenny is dying.

One of the things I've always liked about South Park is that they make fun of all kinds of celebrities. If you'll notice, SNL on the other hand stopped making fun of most celebrities long ago other than politicians and news personalities, and even in the latter case they often draw the line (they had a hilarious skit years ago mocking how awful Andy Cohen and WWHL are, and then they never did it again, apparently because Cohen threw a major shit-fit).

Opps, forgot the Madonna appearance on SP:

Yes, SNL is so obnoxious with it's celebrity ass-kissing now. Nobody wants to see celebrities be celebrated and have them lecture us on politics and mock politicians. It's beyond hypocritical that celebs who have wealth, power and privilege hate being made fun of yet will mock others with wealth, power and privilege.

Both Parker and Stone when they became rich and famous had the happier-than-a-pig-in-shit phenomenon that Martin Scorsese examined in "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Brian de Palma did in "Scarface": they immediately did tons of coke, and hung out at the Playboy Mansion and fucked tons of strippers. I can see why they would have wanted to do that but it's not good for you in the long run (look at Parker's nose).

R85 r87 yes. I've noticed how cowardly and lame SNL is when it comes to mocking major celebs. They will only go after people who won't bite back or D listers. Remember their super edgy skit mocking the long forgotten Black eyed peas....in 2022? Pathetic.

You know that SNL won’t be doing any Alec Baldwin skits.

Stop talking about fucking SNL in the Trey Parker thread. Get your own thread for that hackneyed, mainstream garbage for mouth-breathers.

R91 I much preferred In Living Color and MadTV which reached levels of insanity that SNL never would.

I kinda want to fuck him I’ll be honest.

R48 family guy has always been disjointed and terrible.

Colorado is full of rightwing militias and shitheads who elect people like Lauren Boebert. But yeah, get mad at Barbra Streisand for boycotting a state that sends assholes to congress and passes homophobic laws.

R95 Really? Despite eveything posted in this thread, you're STILL going with that?

They were mad that she referred to everyone in Colorado as "Hicks"--NOT because she boycotted anti-gay legislation. Also, because she sucks. Kinda like if someone said "All gays want to convert good-looking straight men"

Wait...

R95 South Park makes fun of the right-wing redneck gun nuts too like Stan's Uncle Jimbo, Kenny's white trash parents on welfare and that whole "they took our jobs" episode.

There was also a chicken fucker...