For South Park architects Trey Parker and Matt Stone, timing is everything. Just days after their show was reupped on Paramount+ for $1.5 billion and less than 24 hours after their explicit season 27 premiere of the show put President Donald Trump in bed with the devil, and mere hours after the FCC approved the Skydance-Paramount merger, the two were centerstage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con.
This morning a Trump administration source exclaimed, “The President is seething over the childish attack by South Park.”
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So what’s life been like for Stone and Parker since?
When asked by the moderator of tonight’s Comic-Con Comedy Central Animation panel about the response was to last night’s premiere, Parker deadpanned, “We’re terribly sorry.”
And for most of the panel, which also included Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and Digman! co-creator Andy Samberg, the South Park creators avoided the elephant in the room. Except for a few beats.
Parker did offer that last night’s episode came together three days ago, in true South Park down-to-the-wire fashion. “We were like, ‘I don’t know if people are going to like this.’ We were reading stuff in the newspaper, and were like, ‘Let’s put that in there!’”
Last night’s premiere of South Park, “Sermon on the Mount” had Trump whining about the size of his manhood in an official painting, then crawling into bed with Satan, only to be rejected by Beelzebub. There were all sorts of other Trump references including POTUS suing the town for $5 billion after the parents riot, Cartman upset over NPR’s cancellation, and Satan finally confronting Trump about rumors that he’s on the Epstein list.
Talking briefly about their process for the premiere, Parker said, “I’m like, ‘We’re not going to blur the penis.’”
Stone added, “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown up people for four f*cking days!”
Judge joined in with, “I saw one one. Were there two?”
The moderator quipped that a subpoena is coming Stone and Parker’s way.
Responded Parker, “It’s fine man — I’m ready.”
Parker shared that back in February the guys had to make a promo for the new season. “We showed a whole bunch of clips that we made up for the promo.”
They received an angry response from fans, who thought the duo were creating episodes in advance to sidestep any hot topics.
Parker exclaimed, “You seriously think we made a bunch of shows ahead of time and baked them for later? We’re not doing any of that!”
Stone joked, “No politics, none of that shit.”
Paramount, under the new Skydance regime, has more Parker and Stone in store with the duo producing a Dave Free directed, untitled Kendrick Lamar live action comedy. That’s set for March 20, 2026.
At the end of tonight’s session, Parker and Stone received the Comic-Con Inkpot Award for Best Animation.
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