"South Park" to Back Off Mocking Trump
by James Hibberd
2/2/17


"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone say fans keep assuming they must be loving the Trump presidency — there’s so much dramatic material to parody, right?

But no, the duo behind the long-running Comedy Central hit says in a new ABC News interview. Though last season had a character clearly inspired by Trump, Parker and Stone say they’re likely going to back off mocking “everybody in government” when they return.





Why? Because it’s become too hard.

“It feels like it’s going to be more difficult,” Stone says.

“They’re already going out and doing the comedy,” Parker adds. “It’s not something you can make fun of.”



“We’re having our head blown off like everybody else,” Stone says.

“It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality,” Parker notes. “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on last season but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just back off and let politicians do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”



"South Park" is expected to return for its 21st season later this year.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/02/south-park-trump/

Can South Park stay away from politics? (http://www.avclub.com/video/can-south-park-stay-away-politics-249680)

We need from politics. Especially Trump every week.

The ‘South Park’ Guys Compare Parodying Donald Trump To A Monkey Running Into A Wall (http://uproxx.com/tv/south-park-star-wars-trump/)

Media Shames South Park for Ignoring Trump Jokes (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/christian-toto/2017/08/19/media-shames-south-park-ignoring-trump-jokes)

South Park doesn't blame you—or itself—for obsessing over Trump

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2017/10/27/new-york-magazine-complains-south-park-goes-soft-donald-trump

By P.J. Gladnick | October 27, 2017 11:09 AM EDT
Have you noticed how so many media outlets have gone soft on President Donald Trump? Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, the Daily Show, etc.. All are now treating Trump with kids gloves. Yes, yes! Of course I'm just kidding. The fact is that the mainstream media in both its news and entertainment shows have presented an almost solid wall of total hostility towards Trump. So what happens when just one entertainment show treats Trump as a side character without weighing in on how evil he supposedly is?

At least he had a cameo.

http://splitsider.com/2017/10/saturday-night-live-and-south-park-are-haunted-by-their-pasts-in-the-trump-era

Two years later, the shock of Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live still hasn’t warn off, says John Hugar. No matter what Saturday Night Live does in attacking the president, his hosting the show casts “a nasty shadow over it," he says. “Put it this way: If every single cast member simultaneously stood on stage and said 'Donald Trump is absolute human garbage and we all condemn him to hell with every fiber of our beings,’ it still wouldn’t change the fact that two years earlier, he stood on the same stage and cracked jokes with them,” says Hugar. Meanwhile, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking “the coward’s way out” by focusing on Trump as little as possible. “Sure,” says Hugar, “it’s tiresome, but just ignoring him sends the wrong message, especially when there’s a line of thought that suggests South Park was somewhat responsible for the culture that led to someone as repulsive as Trump becoming president in the first place.” ALSO: On South Park, "the relative absence of Trump is disappointing for a show that loves to sh*t on power.” (https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/10/23/south-park-blinks/)

Why bother to have Trump on SNL? Alec Baldwin does a great impression of him.