After spending years relentlessly moving just about everyone and everything, it is no surprise to see Trey Parker and Matt Stone turn their South Park guns on the current US administration with their pointed brand of comedy.
The show has been openly poking fun at the administration, the President himself, the VP, FCC chairman Brendan Carr, Kristi Noem, and even the associated MAGA movement. Some, such as VP Vance, have taken it on the chin and laughed along with it, understanding it goes with the territory.
Others… not so much.
In an interview with The New York Times, Parker and Stone explain that they haven’t suddenly gone political, and they are not taking sides. Politics is now pop culture, and everyone is fair game:
“It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture… there’s no getting away from [MAGA]. It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look.
Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.
We’re just very down-the-middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.
You know, next year will be different. If there’s one thing we know, it is that our show will be a lot longer than [Trump’s administration]. So, we just got to do this for now.”
Stone went on to add that they simply can’t help themselves but be drawn to controversy, as this is what makes them tick:
“Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey. Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? Ok, then we’re over there.”
The current, and 28th, season of South Park is now airing worldwide.
