YOU, TOO CAN BE A SOUTH PARK KID

Having lent their names and characters in 1998 to video-game creators Acclaim, who produced a widely reviled South Park Nintendo game, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are working with THQ and Obsidian on a new role-playing game (RPG) that some analysts say could wipe out the unsettling memories of the first one. The website GameInformer.com […]

TONY-WINNING BOOK OF MORMON COMING TO THE SCREEN — BUT NOT SOON

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are planning a movie version of their hit Broadway musical comedy The Book of Mormon, but have indicated that it may take several years before it hits the screen. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Parker said “Hopefully it will have a big run [on Broadway] and […]

MUSLIM LAWYER SAYS HE LOVES HIS RELIGION — AND HIS “SOUTH PARK”

CNN’s website on Monday posted a commentary by Arsalan Iftikhar, whom it identified as an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, who wrote that he was both a Muslim and a fan of South Park. Iftikhar maintained that the thinly veiled threat against the lives of South Park‘s creators, Trey Parker and Matt […]

“SOUTH PARK” EDITS SPARK FREE-SPEECH DEBATE

Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode following a thinly-veiled death threat by the fundamentalist Islamic website RevolutionMuslim.com against the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, continued to have repercussions over the weekend. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the cable network’s action has touched off a campaign called “Everybody Draw […]

“SOUTH PARK” PRODUCERS SAY COMEDY CENTRAL CENSORED SHOW

South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone insisted on Thursday that they had nothing to do with the bleeping and cutting of their April 21 show that drew the wrath of some radical Muslims for lampooning the prophet Muhammad. “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid,” said […]

MUSLIM RADICALS TARGET “SOUTH PARK” CREATORS

An extremist Muslim website has warned South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that “they will probably wind up” assassinated like Dutch documentary filmmaker Theo van Gogh for producing an episode of their animated series that, in part, lampooned the fear of the media to depict the prophet Muhammad. (When Comedy Central refused to […]