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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘South Park' Lampoons Trump in Shocking Season 27 Premiere as Creators Ink $1.5 Billion Deal
South Park returned to television Wednesday after a nearly two-and-a-half-year hiatus, kicking its 27th season off with a hilarious and, as expected, controversial premiere, where the show took on President Donald Trump, showing a depiction of him in bed with series regular, Satan. Government censorship, the death of wokeness, ChatGPT, and religion in the nation's public schools were the main topics of the season premiere. After Cartman learns of the cancellation of the radio show where 'liberals bitch and whine about stuff,' an assembly is called by series favorite PC Principal, who introduces a guest at an assembly: Jesus Christ. Before the first act break, the town's parents are rioting and a cutout of President Trump turns up, as the plot shifts to the White House and a president at odds with Canada and lying naked in bed with Satan, with his small penis on full display. More from The Hollywood Reporter Jeff Daniels Takes Aim at Trump and His Supporters: "I Hope You're Losing Tons of Money" White House Calls 'The View's' Joy Behar an "Irrelevant Loser" After She Says Trump's "Jealous of Obama" Five Things to Know About Donald Trump's "AI Action Plan" for Government Regulation In a promo clip for the episode, the return of a series favorite is touted in voiceover and PC Principal is introducing fellow series regular, Jesus Christ. The clip featured Cartman saying, 'The government can't cancel the show, I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?' The episode follows Trump as he finds himself in crisis, as his South Park supporters turn on him over Jesus entering the education system. After shimmying through a White House lawn party, the president finds himself on a call with Randy Marsh (Stan's dad). The call ends with Trump threatening to sue the people of South Park for $5 billion. Trump is back in bed with Satan in the following scene, where the devil confronts the president about rumors that his name appears on the notorious 'Epstein list.' 'It's weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax,' Satan says, adding that Trump reminds me a lot of someone else he dates, an allusion to his beau in the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, in which Satan is romantically involved with Saddam Hussein. By the end of the episode, Paramount and the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert come up as Jesus pleads with the people of South Park not to mess around with Trump. The town settles Trump's lawsuit for $3.5 million, but must also produce pro-Trump public service announcements; check out the disturbing NSFW deepfake ad below, which gives Trump's 'teeny-tiny' manhood its close-up. The premiere of the 27th season of the enduring animated series, known to cannonball into the pool of politics and pop culture and leave no party or person safe from its scathing satire, comes just as Paramount Global and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's company, Park County, reached a new licensing deal. Their agreement allows South Park's new season to debut as scheduled and for a run of 50 new episodes over five years, which will all debut on Paramount-owned Comedy Central. The companies added an expansive new streaming partnership (via their joint venture South Park Digital Studios), which will bring the South Park library to Paramount+ in the U.S., where it will remain in the HBO Max library for now, and globally. New episodes will also stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. the day after airing on Comedy Central. The deal was said to be valued at $1.5 billion. The deal comes after a behind-the-scenes legal dispute between Park County, Paramount Global and Skydance, which is set to assume control of Paramount in the coming weeks. 'This merger is a shitshow and it's fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow,' Parker and Stone wrote in a social media post July 2, after Comedy Central announced that the season 27 premiere had been pushed by a few weeks. Stone however said earlier today that he, Parker and their team are grateful and thanked Paramount co-CEO and president of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Chris McCarthy and COO Keyes Hill-Edgar for years of great partnership. 'We are grateful for this opportunity and deeply honored by the trust placed in us. This is about more than a contract — it's about our commitment to this organization, our teammates, and our fans. We're focused on building something special and doing whatever it takes to bring championships to this city.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
Metro
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
South Park fans convinced Donald Trump will cancel series over 'teeny tiny' manh
Last night, South Park season 27 premiered to the delight of fans who were concerned the series was doomed to TV purgatory. One person, however, who might not be so delighted about the satirical cartoon's return is President Donald Trump. The opening episode, 'Sermon on the Mount', mercilessly mocked Trump, portraying him as a litigious sex pest who is in a relationship with Satan. South Park also made several (quite literally) below-the-belt jokes about the US Commander-in-Chief's penis. During one scene, when Satan and Trump are getting intimate, the president exposes himself to the Devil and declares, 'Come on, Satan, you know you can't resist this.' To which the Devil replies, 'I can't even see anything because it's so small.' Following the episode, a fake public service announcement aired, which showed an AI version of Donald Trump wandering through the desert naked. As the president collapses in the desert, his penis (which can talk and appears to have googly eyes) declares, 'I'm Donald J. Trump and I endorse this message' before a voice over states, 'Trump! His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.' Following the episode's premiere, fans were shocked and amused in equal measure, with many speculating how the notoriously thin-skinned president might react to the show. Our South Park historian and deputy TV editor Tom Percival explains his thoughts on the significance of Satan sleeping with Trump… Jokes are never funny after you've explained them. Still, as a journalist, it's fallen to me to explain the Trump gag, and this is a callback to the show's earlier seasons. You see, South Park has a long tradition of showing Satan in relationships with problematic men. In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Satan was in a similar relationship with Saddam Hussein until the pair had a rather dramatic break-up. The South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker may then be attempting to draw parallels between the former Iraqi leader and President Trump; they've even animated the pair in the same fashion. What are the similarities? Well, I don't think we have the right to dictate that to you. 'OMG South Park went straight for the jugular with Trump! The ending is amazing,' wrote @Pookerella on X. 'If you haven't watched the new #SouthPark… watch the new South Park. Maybe their best episode ever,' added @BlackMagicSama 'They told us what we all know,' wrote @TylerandAndrei. 'They are definitely going to try and give #SouthPark the Colbert treatment.' @DowntownHWV meanwhile, perhaps summed it up most succinctly when they wrote, 'Trump is going to lose his sh*t'. Other fans, meanwhile, couldn't help but point out that Paramount, who own the network that airs South Park, just paid Trump $16,000,000 to settle a 60 Minutes lawsuit. This decision has been seen by critics as Paramount capitulating to the White House. 'The new #SouthPark is an absolute masterpiece and a shot across the bow to all those companies currently capitulating to Trump. Paramount should be ashamed,' wrote @BlackMagicSama @defonotfranklin said, 'This is why I love South Park. They don't give a f**k and want to give us a clear message that Donald Trump is a piece of sh*t. F*ck Trump. F*ck idiotic MAGA supporters. F*ck Paramount. 'Holy smokes, South Park just went scorched earth on Trump for their season 27 premiere,' added @WUTangKids. 'Paramount is gonna love this after giving Trey Parker and Matt Stone a cool $1.5B streaming deal'. Of course, not everyone enjoyed the episode @ajonestherapist branded the episode 'lazy ' and 'woke'. 'It has become self-aware of its own cultural cache and relevance,' he continued. 'It's leaning into it with the subtlety of Marvel humour.' @gregorytangelo was similarly upset by the episode, claiming the series had 'jumped the shark'. 'Matt & Trey succumbed to the cancer of recalibrating storylines to trash Trump—without sarcasm, irony, or laughs' he wrote. 'The show used to poke fun at everything and everyone; now it's just a partisan hatefest—and only sociopaths want to watch that.' Sadly, at the time of writing, South Park season 27 is not available to stream in the UK. That said, we do know that brand new episodes of South Park season 27 at some date in the future and be available to stream on Sky. Meanwhile, @RandMatthews 'South Park has gone woke. They must go broke.' More Trending Sadly for Mr Matthews, it might be a while before the South Park team goes broke. The co-creators have reportedly signed a deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount to keep the show on the air for another five years. Metro has reached out to the White House and President Trump for comment. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. View More » MORE: Last surviving main Hogan's Heroes cast member Kenneth Washington dies aged 89 MORE: 'I lead a wondrous new TV period drama – it's a blessing' MORE: Steven Knight's 'utterly compelling' thriller series quietly added to free streaming service
The National
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Ramy Youssef's first animated series #1 Happy Family USA is a satire about post 9/11 America
Ramy Youssef will release his first animated series, #1 Happy Family USA, this April. Youssef tells The National: 'This is a premise I had wanted to see come to life for a long time". Co-created by Youssef and Pam Brady (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Team America: World Police, Hamlet 2) and produced by British-Iraqi journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi, the series was helmed by Youssef's own production company Cairo Cowboy, as well as A24 and Amazon MGM Studios. The eight-episode first season will be released on April 17 via Amazon Prime Video. Set in the early 2000s, the show follows the 'manically upbeat' Hussein family – 'the most patriotic, most peaceful and most-definitely-not-suspicious Muslim family in post 9/11 'Amreeka',' according to the official description. Youssef adds: 'It's set in the early 2000s, which is an exciting time to look at from this vantage point. Surprisingly, a lot of the same tensions exist. So it's been fun just looking at that era with 20 years of experience.' Youssef headlines the cast opposite Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development, Search Party). Youssef voices Rumi, described as a hopeful 12-year-old-boy with a big imagination and a desire to fit in. The comedian also takes the role of Hussein Hussein, the family's patriarch, a former cardiothoracic surgeon, who now runs a halal cart. Shawkat plays his older sister Mona, the family's "golden child". Also starring are rising comedian Salma Hindy, author Randa Jarrar, as well as comedian Akaash Singh, Chris Redd, Whitmer Thomas and Mandy Moore. Hindy plays the family's mother, Sharia, who is equally obsessed with being a good mum and solving the conspiracy around Princess Diana's death. Jarrar plays Grandma, a blunt, talk-show obsessed niqabi woman. The subject matter is something Youssef has explored in his own work before, including in his stand-up comedy specials and in the fourth episode of the series Ramy's first season. While the show was inspired by his existing comedic material, it has grown due to the input of his collaborators and their own experiences. 'Much of it is spilling over from my stand-up and my own inner stuff, but this is very much a comedy collective,' Youssef explains. 'For me, this cartoon is a great collection of people that I've been wanting to work with for the last few years coming together – some of my favourite emerging comedians and writers' fingerprints are on it.' Youssef notes that it was particularly exciting to work with Chalabi, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for her work with the New York Times. 'She's an amazing journalist and political cartoonist. And she very much has her own style, so this is modern political cartoon show that is really dope.' Youssef doesn't think the show compares to any animated series to date, saying: 'I just want it to be its own thing". The comedian is set to have a busy 2025. In addition to his coming cartoon, he co-wrote each episode of Mo season two, a series he co-created with Mo Amer, which released in January to great acclaim. He also has a show titled Golf, set to premiere on Netflix at an unannounced date, the first project under his current first-look deal with the streaming platform. Youssef will next perform comedy as part of a benefit event to support those affected by the Los Angeles fires on March 4. His latest comedy special, Ramy Youssef: More Feelings, was nominated for a Golden Globe in January.
