‘South Park’ Creators: Trump Is Too Hard to Satirize

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The creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have made a 20-year career out of satirizing everything we hold dear, but it appears that they’ve finally met their match: Donald Trump.

The last two seasons of South Park dramatized the political rise of a Trump-esque Mr. Garrison, complete with golden coif and orange skin, but as the episodes rolled out, the former proprietor of vodka, steaks, and fake college degrees became too much for the comedy writers to handle. As they told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

TREY PARKER: “It’s tricky now, because satire has become reality. It’s really hard to make fun of, and in the last season of South Park, which just ended a month-and-a-half ago, we were really trying to make fun of what was going on, but we couldn’t keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”

MATT STONE: “Yeah, let everyone in government do their comedy for a bit.”

South Park, which once skewered our election process by holding a vote between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich, has been critically praised for its mockery over the past 20 seasons, bringing home five Outstanding Animated Program Emmy Awards, as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. But the writers have a somewhat bleak view of the future:

STONE: People say to us all the time, “Oh, you guys are getting all this good material,” like we’re happy about some of the stuff that’s happening. But I don’t know if that’s true. It doesn’t feel that way. It feels like they’re going to be more difficult.

PARKER: They’re going out and doing the comedy. They’re already doing it, so it’s not like something you can make fun of.

STONE: We’re having our head blown off, like everybody else.

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