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Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Charlie Kirk embraces 'South Park' parody of him in upcoming episode as a 'badge of honor'
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk may have cemented himself as a pop culture figure as he appears to have been parodied by "South Park." In a teaser released Tuesday for its upcoming episode, Kirk's likeness was adopted by iconic "South Park" character Eric Cartman, who is seen with a hairstyle similar to the conservative firebrand and is in a heated spat with a classmate, mirroring Kirk's exchanges with students on college campuses. "You can just shut up, Bebe, because you hate America and you love abortion," Cartman shouts at fellow student Bebe Stevens. Kirk quickly embraced the parody, changing his X profile picture to a screenshot of Cartman and posting to his over 5 million followers, "I'm so watching this." Speaking with Fox News Digital, Kirk said he laughed when he first saw the teaser, saying multiple people sent him the clip. He initially thought it was "some sort of AI troll." "I think it's kind of funny and it kind of goes to show the cultural impact and the resonance that our movement has been able to achieve," Kirk told Fox News Digital. "So I look at this as a badge of honor." Kirk said he hasn't seen as much of "South Park" in recent years as he did in high school, but appreciated the long-running animated series being an "equal opportunity offender." While it's unclear what Cartman's Kirk-like persona does in the episode, which will air August 6, last week's season premiere may give a clue. In the previous episode, Cartman is demoralized after it is declared that "woke is dead," causing the foul-mouthed, offensive fourth-grader to have an identity crisis as everyone else in South Park sheds their cultural sensitivities. Meanwhile, controversy erupted in his hometown when South Park Elementary began injecting Christianity into school, even going so far as having Jesus Christ looming in the hallways. "I'm excited to watch it because, look, we as conservatives need to be able to take a joke, right? We shouldn't take ourselves so seriously," Kirk said. "That's something that the left has always done to great detriment to themselves and their movement." "They're professional comedians. They're probably gonna roast me, and I think that's fine. And that's what it's all about, being in public life and, you know, making a difference. And I'm gonna have a good spirit about it. I'll watch it. I'm going to laugh at it," Kirk continued. "From a religious standpoint, we're all sinners. We all fall short of the glory of God. Like from a more practical life standpoint, we're all broken people. Stop taking yourself so seriously. That's probably one of the problems that we've had in our politics is that people can't take a joke." "South Park," which airs on Comedy Central, held no punches against President Donald Trump after the network's parent company Paramount reached a major settlement with him earlier this month to resolve his "60 Minutes" lawsuit. In the 27th season premiere, Trump was repeatedly compared to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (who "South Park" had previously satirized during the Iraq War), depicted him as literally being in bed with Satan, and was lampooned for leveling lawsuit threats. The episode quickly went viral for showing a life-like graphic depiction of the president and his genitalia. "This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital. "President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country's history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump's hot streak." Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park," recently reached a whopping $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount.
Spectator
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Do Donald Trump's fans like South Park or not?
Eric Cartman, the antihero of South Park, is a disgusting bigot who mocks disabled people, demeans women and says hateful things about Jews. When the series debuted in 1997, much of what offended parents, educators and religious groups came out of the mouth of this school-aged Alf Garnett. Later, it was the forces of coercive progressivism who bridled, especially at its derision of the trans creed. Suddenly, the median South Park disapprover was Emily, 30 ans, who worked in HR, actually met a black person once, and renamed her dachshund because 'Dumbledore' made her feel complicit in JK Rowling's gendercide. Now the series is displeasing MAGA groupies after its 27th season debuted with a mild satire of Donald Trump. It marks the first time the White House press office has responded to an animated series mocking the size of the presidential appendage In 'Sermon on the 'Mount', Cartman awakes to a world in which 'woke is dead'. He first realises something is up when he tunes into Morning Edition only to find that NPR has been defunded by Trump. The ultra-progressive station is Cartman's favourite listen because it lets him savour the suffering of well-intentioned liberals: 'It had, like, gay rappers from Mexico all sad because girls in Pakistan got stoned to death. And guess why they got stoned to death? Because they were raped. It was hilarious. Why would anyone cancel that?' He goes to school to find that PC Principal is no longer politically correct and has invited Jesus to address the school assembly. Christianity, he says, is the only true faith and all students must accept Christ — in their hearts and at their lunch table — or face expulsion. Along with the establishment clause of the First Amendment, liberal pieties about tolerance and inclusion and all those things Cartman despises have been swept aside. And he's miserable about it, glumly telling his friend/bullying victim Butters: 'Everyone hates the Jews. Everyone is fine with using gay slurs… It's terrible, 'cause now I don't know what I'm supposed to do.' The townsfolk, most of whom voted for Trump because they were sick of woke coercion, come to resent his anti-woke coercion and turn on the president. He is dubbed a 'retarded faggot', derided for his litigiousness, depicted with a tiny penis, and a White House portrait shows him bumming a sheep. When he climbs into bed at night with Satan, feeling amorous, the mood quickly cools when the Antichrist asks why Trump won't confirm whether he is named on Jeffrey Epstein's client list. Like I said, very mild stuff. Jesus recreates the Last Supper and pleads with the town to stop antagonising Trump in case South Park gets cancelled like Stephen Colbert's show. CBS dropped the latter from its late-night slot after he denounced parent company Paramount's decision to settle a lawsuit from Trump about its editing of a pre-election Kamala Harris interview. Paramount recently signed a $1.5 billion (£1.1 billion) deal with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to produce 50 new episodes and give the platform streaming rights to the previous 26 series. Eventually, the president sues the town and, as part of the settlement, they have to produce pro-Trump ads. The episode ends with their first effort, an AI-generated clip in which a heavily obese Trump stumbles through the desert with messianic delusions before stripping off, falling down, and leaving his micro-member to become semi-erect and chirp: 'I am Donald J Trump and I approve this message'. All good, clean fun and the president's media detractors could learn from it. This is what MSNBC could be if only they'd employ a heterosexual male or two. The White House issued a statement about the episode, because of course it did, and snipped: 'This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.' It marks the first time the White House press office has responded to an animated series mocking the size of the presidential appendage. Parker and Stone replied with a fake apology and revealed the behind-the-scenes discussions about whether to blur Trump's wiener. And to think there are people who consider this the bad timeline. The episode has drawn criticism — well, angry chimp noises — from Trump's chud supporters and the blue checkmark grifters who steal a living prodding them for engagement. Roughly 172 per cent of them have previously shared clips of the show mocking liberal shibboleths and called those who objected snowflakes. There has been praise from the very resistance liberals who five minutes ago considered South Park and its cruel, punching-down humour the embodiment of Trump's America. As the new season progresses, the show will doubtless take aim at progressive targets, at which point these two sets of insufferable humour-voids will switch sides and resume hostilities. South Park is sophomoric satire in the very best sense, satire that takes neither its targets nor itself very seriously. It understands that the hypocritical and the pompous are inherently funny, but all the more so if you lampoon them not with clever-clever Monty Python comedy but with puerile insults. Toilet humour is a great leveller, triggering bores both over- and under-educated into the same condescending sneer, confirming that while their tastes in comedy might differ, their sense of humourlessness is indistinguishable. To paraphrase Mark Twain, against the assault of tiny penis jokes, nothing can stand. Back in 2018, I wrote on Coffee House about the rise of anti-comedy, as American stand-ups and late-night hosts, traumatised by Trump, dropped the humour to offer their equally traumatised audience therapy in the guise of comedy. The problem, as I diagnosed it, was a mass case of progressives taking themselves too seriously. Trump idolisers are afflicted by the same disease. If you love comedy, the self-serious, woke and anti-woke alike, are the enemy. The dull, scowling, tribal, dishonest, umbrage-taking, laughter-policing enemy. It is your duty to heap scorn upon them, ridicule all that they hold sacred, and scandalise their soulless sensibilities. Failing that, call them what they are: 'retarded faggots.'
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘South Park' Vs. Donald Trump—The Controversial Episode, Explained
South Park takes a jab at President Donald Trump Comedy Central/Paramount South Park roared back into relevancy with the show's season 27 premiere, mocking President Donald Trump, seemingly daring the president to sue the show. Clips from the premiere quickly spread through social media, with the show's signature crude humor proving a hit—many were satisfied to see schoolyard taunts used against a president known for punching down. South Park's season 27 premiere sees Cartman lament the death of 'woke' culture, as the rise of reactionary sentiment ripples through the quiet mountain town. Normally, South Park pushes back against political correctness, but this time, show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone seem to think the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. PC Principal, the show's signature social justice warrior, has become a born-again Christian who has invited Jesus Christ himself into the school, much to the dismay of the parents. Amusingly, Cartman has found himself alienated by so-called 'death of woke,' as he no longer feels like a rebel against polite society—now, he's just another edgelord. Mr. Garrison, the show's warped version of Donald Trump, has been replaced by a far more direct parody, based on the show's old caricature of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein— South Park's new Trump proudly parades his naked body in the White House, complete with comically undersized genitalia. This version of Trump is a lawsuit-happy hedonist who is literally in bed with Satan (in South Park , Satan is something of a lost soul, often ending up in abusive relationships). When the parents of South Park push back against Trump, complaining about the rise of religion in the classroom, Jesus warns them to drop it, and hints that the show might be cancelled, whispering, 'You really want to end up like Colbert?' Jesus also makes a reference to a 'lawsuit and an agreement with Paramount,' seemingly a reference to Paramount's $16 million settlement with Donald Trump. As Trump waltzes around South Park , threatening to sue in response to every single criticism, the episode feels very much like Parker and Stone trying to provoke President Trump into legal action. The episode ends with a satirical PSA featuring a realistic, seemingly AI-generated version of Trump wandering the desert, before stripping down and revealing his small penis, which then talks directly to the camera. Parker and Stone have since revealed that the network had 'notes' for the provocative episode, and that there was serious disagreement over Trump's genitalia, with the network wanting his penis blurred. Stone, however, insisted that the penis stay in focus, and ended up getting his way after adding eyeballs to the diminutive organ, arguing that the network couldn't blur the penis because it was a 'character.' Did The White House React To 'South Park'? While there was no social media post from Trump, the White House was provoked into a reaction, with Trump's spokesperson Taylor delivering a statement: 'The Left's hypocrisy truly has no end—for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as 'offensive' content, but suddenly, they are praising the show.' Rogers went on to dismiss South Park , stating, 'This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.' As this was only the premiere, it's likely that the show will continue to mercilessly mock Trump—Parker and Stone have always been willing to push boundaries. MORE FROM FORBES Forbes What Is 'Squid Game' Season 3 Really About? By Dani Di Placido Forbes What Is The 'Gen Z Stare'? The TikTok Debate, Explained By Dani Di Placido Forbes How 'JD Vance Edit' Memes Broke The Internet By Dani Di Placido Forbes The Optimistic Ending Of 'Superman,' Explained By Dani Di Placido
Los Angeles Times
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘South Park' season opener puts Trump in bed with Satan and has Paramount on its knees
'South Park' wasted no time putting its very existence on the line, again. On Wednesday, the Comedy Central series kicked off its 27th season with a searing indictment of President Trump and its network's parent company, Paramount. Paramount recently paid the president $16 million toward his future library rather than fighting a lawsuit Trump brought against '60 Minutes' (Paramount is also a parent company of CBS). It was also announced last week that 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,' which airs on Paramount-owned CBS, was being canceled. Colbert is one of the most prominent political satirists in America, and from his pulpit has been a relentless critic of MAGA policy and Trump. Like the payout over the '60 Minutes' lawsuit, Colbert's cancellation comes just as Paramount is seeking federal approval of an $8-billion merger with Skydance Media. 'South Park' couldn't have returned at a better time. The episode, titled 'Sermon on the Mount,' opens with Cartman discovering his favorite radio station, NPR, has been canceled. Making fun of its wokeness was part of his identity, and now he's lost and angry. 'The government can't cancel a show!' he laments before dropping a self-referential joke about 'South Park's' own vulnerability. 'I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?' Paramount might be tempted to cancel 'South Park' after Wednesday night's damning premiere, when the show repeatedly lampooned the company's costly capitulation to Trump. And Paramount earlier this week announced a $1.5 billion deal with 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for 14 new movies, six more seasons and streaming rights on Paramount+ for the next five years. The new season continues to plumb the horrifying depths of 2025 when Cartman also finds that his school is demanding students accept the presence of Jesus, literally. Cartman is called to the principal's office for not letting Jesus sit with his group in the cafeteria at lunch, even though there were no empty seats. There's always room for the Lord, he's told. The townspeople become angry that they voted in a guy who they thought would target other people — like immigrants. They don't want religion forced on their kids at school, but newscasts make their plight seem hopeless. 'More protests today as the president pushes harder for Christianity in our schools. The president stated earlier today that the spirit of Jesus is important to our country and he will sue anyone who doesn't agree with him.' The truly wicked satire begins when they cut to Trump at the White House. He's the only character whose head is an actual photo rather than a drawing, and the president's image is deftly manipulated to reflect the many faces of the real man: pouting, grimacing, smiling, leering and pouting, again. He repeatedly demands that everyone relax while he threatens to destroy them. He argues with Canada's prime minister over tariffs ('You don't want me to bomb you like I did Iraq,' says Trump. 'I thought you just bombed Iran,' the PM replies. 'Iran. Iraq. What the hell's the difference?'). Trump also lies naked in bed with Satan, revealing his minuscule manhood. Disgusted, the devil rebuffs the president's advances and says, 'I can't even see anything, it's so small.' Satan is also perturbed that some rando on Insta keeps commenting about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's client list. 'Epstein, are we still talking about that?' Trump says. 'Are you on the list or not?' Satan asks. 'It's weird that when it comes up you just keep telling everyone to relax.' Then we jump to a segment of '60 Minutes' where the beleaguered show's hosts mumble in terror for fear of another lawsuit as the show's signature stopwatch sound is set to the image of a ticking time bomb. They refer to the president as 'a great man' who 'is probably watching' before cutting to their reporter who is covering the protests against Trump in South Park, Colorado. Jesus touches down to address his flock under the guise of fulfilling Trump's wish to bring Christianity back into public schools. But he's really there to warn the crowd, and does so in a whisper. 'I didn't want to come back and be in the school, but I had to because it was part of a lawsuit and the agreement with Paramount.' 'The president's suing you?' a protester asks. Jesus, through clenched teeth, explains: 'The guy can do what he wants now that someone backed down. ... You guys see what's happened to CBS? Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount! You really want to end up like Colbert? … All of you, shut the f— up or South Park is over!' The town ends up being sued by Trump, and they, like Paramount, cave. They pay him off, but are also required to sing his praises as part of the settlement. The episode ends with a pro-Trump ad by the town. It's a realistic deepfake video of the president trekking through the desert heat in a show of loyalty to his supporters. He strips naked and once again we're reminded that it's not just his hands that are small. That wail you just heard? It's coming from the White House. A new lawsuit is born.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Yahoo
Douglas County Sheriff's Office seeking Highlands Ranch road rage suspect
DENVER (KDVR) — A white male believed to be in his late teens to early 20s is being sought by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office following an alleged road rage incident in Highlands Ranch on April 30. The sheriff's office that the suspect, who was shown in photos that appeared to show he was driving a black Tesla without a visible license plate, nearly struck an unidentified female driver after reversing his vehicle aggressively in the wake of a minor traffic dispute. Colorado third worst state for road rage, report says The suspect was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and black beanie depicting the South Park cartoon character 'Cartman,' according to photos posted by the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office is asking for anyone who may recognize the individual or has information that can assist their investigation to contact Deputy Marc Werder by email at mwerder@ Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
