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South Park to back off mocking Trump

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Ubiquitous

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Feb 3, 2017, 5:48:30 AM2/3/17
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone say fans keep assuming
they must be loving the Trump presidency — there’s so much dramatic
material to parody, right?

But no, the duo behind the long-running Comedy Central hit says in a
new ABC News interview. Though last season had a character clearly
inspired by Trump, Parker and Stone say they’re likely going to back
off mocking “everybody in government” when they return. Why? Because
it’s become too hard.

“It feels like it’s going to be more difficult,” Stone says.

“They’re already going out and doing the comedy,” Parker adds. “It’s
not something you can make fun of.”

“We’re having our head blown off like everybody else,” Stone says.

“It’s tricky and it’s really tricky now as satire has become reality,”
Parker notes. “We were really trying to make fun of what was going on
[last season] but we couldn’t keep up. What was actually happening was
way funnier than anything we could come up with. So we decided to just
back off and let [politicians] do their comedy and we’ll do ours.”

South Park is expected to return for its 21st season later this year.


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Greg

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Feb 3, 2017, 5:44:16 PM2/3/17
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Too bad, nobody is better than SP for spoofing major figures. But then, they may have a point about reality being funnier than anything they could write!!
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