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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
New ‘South Park' Episodes to Debut in July After 2-Year Break
At long last, 'South Park' Season 27 has a premiere date. The long-running Comedy Central original will premiere new episodes on July 9. And based on the first teaser, Matt Stone and Trey Parker have been watching the news. Wednesday's new clip starts with a series of dramatic live-action images, including an empty swing and the wing of an airplane. 'The acclaimed drama returns,' white text against a red background reads. The teaser then immediately jumps to Randy asking his daughter Shelly if she's been taking ketamine. 'Because I think it could really help you,' he adds. And with that, 'South Park' Season 27 is off. The rest of the teaser cycles through images of South Park on fire, Butters panicking as he tries to stop planes from repeatedly crashing into each other, Canadians pulling down the Statue of Liberty, the boys flying through what appears to be space alongside Diddy and Randy cheerfully telling his wife Sharon he's going to do some ketamine 'and f–k around with the government a little.' The video then ends with a creepy, slowed down version of 'Blame Canada,' one of the fan-favorite songs from 1999's 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' Check out the teaser, below: The time between Seasons 26 and 27 currently stands as the longest break the show has ever faced. Since 1997, 'South Park' has consistently released a new season every year. But the last time the series proper released a new season was in February of 2023. Three 'South Park' specials did air later in 2023 and in 2024 — 'South Park: Joining the Panderverse,' 'South Park (Not Suitable for Children)' and 'South Park: The End of Obesity.' But because those are Paramount+ exclusives that are typically 45 minutes to an hour long, those are a bit different. Still, this yearlong gap was intentional. After heavily covering the first Trump election and administration through Mr. Garrison, Parker and Stone said that they would not be releasing new episodes in 2024 in an effort to avoid covering yet another election. 'We've tried to do 'South Park' through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing — it's such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,' Stone said in September. Now known as one of the most recognizable series of all time, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny first appeared in Stone and Parker's 'The Spirit of Christmas' animated short. The pair currently serves as executive producers on the series along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. Christopher Brion is the creative director of South Park Digital Studios. The post New 'South Park' Episodes to Debut in July After 2-Year Break appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘It's South Park!': CNN Panel Ridicules Trump's ‘War on Canada'
A panel of CNN guests agreed that President Donald Trump's hostility toward the United States's mild-mannered neighbor to the north has gone beyond parody. 'The war with Canada … it boggles the mind,' co-host Abby Phillip said on Saturday morning's broadcast of CNN's Table for Five. 'It's a South Park idea!' journalist and TV personality Touré quipped. 'To go to war with CANADA?! This is NOT a serious concept!' Conceding that Trump's recent geopolitical escapades could have been ripped from the famously-filthy animated series—which featured a war between the U.S. and Canada in a 1999 movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut—Phillip stressed that many in Canada have taken the president's latest threats seriously. 'The Canadians, you know there was some reporting this week that they believe Trump really is actually trying to destroy and take over their country,' she said. 'For real, not in a South Park episode but in real life in 2025.' Trump has repeatedly said he would like to annex Canada as the 51st state and referred to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as 'governor.' Under pressure from Canadian leaders, Trudeau asked King Charles to stress Canada's sovereignty to the American president in a meeting earlier this week. 'This is something so profoundly screwed up that it's gonna have blowback for all of us for a really long time,' former CNN political analyst John Avalon fumed. Fellow commentator S.E. Cupp followed up by remarking that 'the Canadian people are just so nice.' 'And no offense to the Canadians, they're also irrelevant to us, really,' she said. 'They mind their business. They never threaten us!'
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.
