If anybody deserved the advantage of the doubt, it’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
The rebels behind “South Park” have spent a long time placing comedy first. Foolish, raunchy, outrageous and crass comedy, to be precise.
However comedy at all times mattered most. And that meant “South Park” punched up and down, Proper and Left sans apology.
That seemingly ended a couple of months in the past, roughly 28 years after the present’s 1997 Comedy Central debut. Out of the blue, Cartman and co. attacked President Trump and numerous GOP figures nonstop.
Truthful and balanced? Not even shut. They contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS.
Much more peculiar? The shift got here after “South Park” ignored a dementia-addled President Joe Biden for 4 lengthy years, and a Democratic occasion that has misplaced its classical liberal moorings. And the place have been the skits mocking Kamala “Phrase Salad” Harris in South Park, Colorado?
We’re ready. Nonetheless.
Had been Parker and Stone trolling their followers with their Hollywood-approved anti-Trump shtick? Was it a commentary on claims that it’s immediately problematic to mock President Trump, and he may take you off the air like he did to Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel (or so the fever swamp Left insisted with out a shred of proof)?
Now, we have now some solutions straight from the supply. And it’s much more miserable than hardcore followers feared.
Parker and Stone opened as much as The New York Instances (strike one!) in regards to the present’s new course. Right here’s Parker on the sudden shift.
“It’s not that we received all political…It’s that politics turned popular culture.”
Actually? This simply occurred? Was it yesterday, the day earlier than yesterday, or the previous decade when politics turned popular culture? Certainly, you may’t be critical. Nevertheless it will get worse.
The duo additionally swallowed the lie that it’s immediately “taboo” to mock President Trump. As if Hollywood, Inc. hasn’t accomplished simply that for a full decade, each when he was out and in of workplace.
Bear in mind this?
And this?
Nobody has but to step foot in a gulag consequently.
As an alternative, any anti-Trump voice is instantly praised all through Hollywood. Bear in mind how Colbert lastly gained his first Emmy for “The Late Present” after CBS canceled the long-running collection?
Pure coincidence. To not Group “South Park.”
“Trey and I are interested in that like flies to honey,” Stone stated. “Oh, that’s the place the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there … we simply needed to present our independence by some means.”
Independence? No present has been extra unbiased over the previous three a long time.
Plus, Parker and Stone simply landed a billion-dollar deal whereas mocking President Trump. Would a mega firm like Skydance do this if artists weren’t in a position to mock President Trump? Would the corporate danger Hitler 2.0’s wrath if that was an actual risk in play?
Do they even hear themselves?
It’s really “taboo” to mock Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … as a result of no late-night present or “Saturday Night time Dwell” skit will come near doing simply that.
What about DEI insurance policies? Taboo! The “banned books” farce? Taboo, too!
Maybe the worst half? This new, improved “South Park” isn’t humorous. Satire stings when there’s a kernel of fact at its core. Mocking President Trump’s penis measurement and staging an affair with Devil simply doesn’t minimize it.
Sorry.
It’s embarrassing, however possibly not as surprising as one would assume. In some unspecified time in the future most artists promote out. Assume Bruce Springsteen, the so-called blue-collar hero who now scoffs at excessive live performance ticket costs and friends round with presidents.
Or Howard Stern, the radio insurgent now seen as a softball interview for politicos with the “right” occasion affiliations.
Parker and Stone are following that unhappy, predictable trajectory. It simply took longer than anticipated. Sadly, they’re deceptive followers within the course of.
“We’re simply very down-the-middle guys,” Parker stated. “Any extremists of any type, we make enjoyable of. We did it for years with the woke factor. That was hilarious to us. And that is hilarious to us.”
The trendy Left calls for trans girls compete towards organic females. “South Park” mocked that madness years in the past. Now, it may double down and torch the Left for its “extremist” views. But, we’ve seen nothing of the type.
The trendy Left helps open borders and doesn’t need unlawful immigrants with prolonged rap sheets to be booted in a foreign country. Bear in mind all of the love proven for the so-called “Maryland Man?”
The trendy Left burned Tesla dealerships as a result of they didn’t like CEO Elon Musk decreasing authorities waste.
The trendy Left lets criminals run wild in main cities, helps failed socialist insurance policies and cheered on the dying of Charlie Kirk.
Nuthin’, Trey and Matt? Not extremist sufficient for you?
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It’s no accident that the media, which has been principally type to Parker and Stone through the years, is immediately fawning throughout “South Park.” Journalists breathlessly share particulars of every new episode prefer it’s a significant occasion.
That’s a coincidence, too, after all. Zero connection to the present’s sudden anti-Trump fervor. Why, it’s like there’s a monetary incentive to embrace TDS.
Naturally, no president ought to be off limits. President Trump could also be bigger than life, however he poses an actual problem to humorists. He’s nearly too simple to superficially mock, and lots of comedians go for the bottom hanging fruit.
The hair. The mannerisms. The jargon.
One of the best of the perfect dig deeper. The remainder let their TDS shine via in each gag.
Parker capped the interview by suggesting extra is but to return. In doing so, he summoned the true TDS spirit. Name it, the “now greater than ever!” syndrome.
“If there’s one factor we all know, it’s that our present will likely be lots longer than theirs [the Trump administration].
“So,” he continued, “we simply received to do that for now.”
Bizarre.
The present didn’t deal with the Biden administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. What about clear proof that Group Biden was censoring voices within the digital panorama? Focusing on on daily basis Mothers and Dads (AKA “terrorists“) for daring to talk up in school board conferences?
No? Nothing? Now, we get the drained, “We simply received to do that now” canard?
Even Cartman would agree that TDS is a horrible factor to behold.
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