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Tragedy Plus Time

Fighting – or at Least Responding to – War and Terrorism with Comedy

by | May 14th, 2013

Welcome to the latest installment of Tragedy Plus Time. Each segment will focus on a particular ‘life crisis’ — sometimes globally tragic, sometimes more of a personal affair — and we’ll explore how many of the comedians we know and love have dealt with it.

If you were following any social media during the Boston bombings last month, you would have observed the global dialogue quickly shift from mundane chatter to the somber details of the attack. Concerns for safety, information about what had transpired, and speculation on the culprits behind it dominated the national conversation. Remarks about any other topic were deemed callous and inappropriate. Especially jokes, on [...]

makin some changes

'South Park' Is Doing 10 Episodes a Season Instead of 14 Starting This Year

by | January 28th, 2013

The NY Times has a nice profile of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone today and their brand new production company Important Studios. To focus on Important Studios and other non-South Park endeavors, Parker and Stone are slightly downsizing the amount of South Park episodes they're producing this year. Since 2004, they've been doing a 14-episode season – seven episodes in the spring and seven in the fall. For the upcoming 17th season, they'll be doing a 10-episode season, airing altogether in the fall with no new episodes this spring. South Park was renewed for three more seasons a while back, taking it through 2016 [...]

Recaps

Wednesday Night Sitcom Recap: 'South Park' and '30 Rock' Weather the Storm

by | November 1st, 2012

Last night, while South Park aired at its normal time, Hurricane Sandy forced NBC to move 30 Rock to Wednesday instead of Thursday so it could make room for a delayed episode of The Voice. All other NBC comedies were cancelled this week. But I'm sure they don't feel too bad — they know who pays the bills in the peacock's house. But let's see how those two shows went last night, shall we?

Legal things

'South Park' Creators Sued by a Guy Who Created a Show Called "Lollipop Forest" and Probably Isn’t Crazy

by | October 15th, 2012

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park, have just been slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit over a character featured in their popular "Imaginationland" episode trilogy. TMZ reports that a man by the name of Exavier Wardlaw filed a suit in federal court in Philadelphia, claiming that the "Imaginationland" character "The Lollipop King" is a rip-off of his character "Big Bad Lollipop" from an independent kids show he made called The Lollipop Forest. According to the suit, Wardlaw is miffed that his family-friendly character was exposed to "unwholesome language and sexual innuendo" and he is asking that South Park remove all traces of the character [...]

Recaps

'South Park' Recap: "Sarcastaball"

by | September 27th, 2012

South Park’s mid-season premiere opened with a professional football game. For about 30 seconds it seemed like they’d done the impossible. Had they turned around a replacement refs episode in like 40 hours? The answer? Not really. But they did manage to sneak in a scene where one ref calls a touchdown, the other calls a safety, and the side judge rules that it was actually a field goal. It was a lucky week to do a football episode, and South Park did the best thing possible: they acknowledged the real life situation within the context of the story that they had likely intended to tell all along. They [...]

Pilots

Adult Swim Orders a Pilot from 'South Park's Pam Brady and 'MADtv's Arden Myrin

by | April 5th, 2013

Adult Swim has a new 11-minute cop comedy on the way. Deadline reports the network has greenlit a live-action pilot called Hole to Hole that'll be created by longtime South Park writer Pam Brady, who also penned Hamlet 2 and an early draft of Hot Rod, and will star MADtv alumnus Arden Myrin, who spent four seasons on the now-defunct Fox sketch show from 2005 to 2009 and is also a regular on Chelsea Lately. Hole to Hole is a parody of cheesy '80s cop shows and follows Ashleigh and Amelia Dangerhole, America’s sexiest billionaire detectives. If the show gets picked up, it'll be Adult Swim's fourth cop show [...]

Serious Business

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Starting Their Own Production Company

by | January 14th, 2013

South Park and Book of Mormon masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced today that they're forming their own production company, with the power and money to approve movie, TV, and stage projects. The new company is called Important Studios and has $300 million in revenue built from South Park and Mormon. Parker and Stone joked in their company's press release that "Having worked with several different studios over the years, we came to realize that our favorite people in the world are ourselves." Stone told The NY Times, "Ten years ago, you needed that studio machinery to start cranking its marketing muscle. Now we could market a [...]

Recaps

'South Park' Recap: "A Nightmare on Facetime"

by | October 25th, 2012

Poor, delusional Randy. On this week’s South Park, he buys a Blockbuster for $10,000; its initially unclear if he purchased a store or the entire company. And after showering his family with gifts in celebration of their certain fortune, Randy packs everyone up in the car to drive to his new store, down the winding mountain roads, with ominous background music that immediately evokes the score for The Shining. When they arrive, the store is abandoned and blighted, but he forces his family to stay and work for him, because “the average person still wants to rent a movie they can hold in their hands!”

Recaps

'South Park' Recap: "Insecurity"

by | October 11th, 2012

On this week’s South Park, we’re forced to take a peek into Gerald and Sheila’s sex life. They both apparently enjoy a UPS man fantasy. Gerland has a costume and everything, and when Ike walks in on them, he jumps to the conclusion that he’s just caught his mother cheating on his dad with the UPS man. Ike draws a picture to show Kyle what he saw, and while Kyle is consulting with his friends, Randy overhears and decides it is his responsibility to inform the men of the town to beware of the UPS man.

“Insecurity” isn’t going to be considered a new classic anytime soon. Centered on [...]

Comedy Docs

Watching the 'South Park' Sausage Get Made in 'Six Days to Air'

by | July 24th, 2012

It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of the comedy world. There are a raft of comedy documentaries exploring comedy and comedians, but do they really have anything significant to add to the discussion? This series looks at comedy documentaries and whether they’re interesting, insightful, and possibly even…funny?

The Making of South Park: 6 Days to Air is, as the title implies, a documentary that goes behind the scenes of Comedy Central’s iconic show, chronicling the making of HumancentiPad, the first episode of South Park's fifteenth season. It begins with a [...]

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Talking With 'Out There' Creator Ryan Quincy

by | February 22nd, 2013

This post is brought to you by Out There, premiering tonight at 10:30/9:30c on IFC.

Ryan Quincy has been working in animation for well over a decade. He spent 12 years on South Park (he's featured in the behind-the-scenes documentary 6 Days to Air) and now he's taking his original characters to IFC in his new animated series Out There (which premieres tonight at 10:30/9:30c on IFC). I had a chance to chat with Quincy about the show, his "out there" character designs, and fainting in sex ed class.

Tell us what Out There is all about, and how it came to IFC.

Out There is about two best [...]

predictions

'South Park' Is Calling the Election for Obama Early

by | November 6th, 2012

Trey Parker and Matt Stone only have one day between when we learn the results of the Presidential Election tonight (hopefully) and when the South Park season finale has to be ready tomorrow, so they've called the election early. The title of tomorrow's episode is "Obama Wins!" and it should be a mad dash to rewrite and retitle the whole thing should that Romney guy actually pull this off. Judging by the above preview, the plot involves Cartman rigging the election, which would be a great way of getting around hypothetically having to rewrite and rerecord the whole episode in under a day.

Recaps

'South Park' Recap: "Going Native"

by | October 18th, 2012

Butters has the rage. We’ve seen it before. You can’t be that nice and positive and not have a breaking point. When Butters loses it, we usually get Professor Chaos, and a series of endearingly flawed and inconsequential attempts to cause, well, chaos. In “Going Native” Butters really does lose it: he beats a kid up for having diabetes. Game on.

Recaps

'South Park' Recap: "Raising the Bar"

by | October 4th, 2012

On this week’s South Park, Kyle agonizes over how our standards have gotten so low, Token becomes a maniacal reality television show producer, Honey Boo Boo has her heart replaced with a pig’s, Michelle Obama beats up Cartman, and James Cameron literally raises the bar (thanks to his trusty Deepsea Challenger). The concept was fun enough, and yet “Raising the Bar” ended up falling somewhat flat despite some great jokes and a little bit of navel gazing, mainly due to repetitiveness and the fact that Kyle didn’t actually seem to care.

On a trip to “Wall*Mart” the boys notice that not only are most of the people in the [...]

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