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Shame Star Michael Fassbender Defends Celebrity Sex Addicts
Sex addiction has become prevalent in pop culture in the past few years, though only in one narrow definition: Self-indulgent celebrities like Tiger Woods and David Duchovny who cheated on their wives because they could. But thanks to research for his new movie Shame, Michael Fassbender thinks he’s seeing a different side of sex addiction, one where it’s not just about powerful men cheating on their wives. More »
Church Of Scientology Investigated South Park’s Creators For A Year After They Made Fun Of It
BREAKING: The Church of Scientology is fucking terrifying. More »
Woman Suffering From Cancer Asks South Park Creators To Make Mr. Hankey The Spokesperson For Rectal Cancer
If you need someone to attack tragedy with humor, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are your guys. More »
Did You Know That Bill Hader Wrote For South Park Last Season?
Watching 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park this weekend, I was surprised to see a familiar face in the South Park writers’ room: Bill Hader! What was the Saturday Night Live star and the man who brought us Stefon doing there? It turns out that he was named a creative consultant for season 12 of the show, and was later invited to write for season 15. More »
Celebrity Hot Messes Need A Drink(ing Game)
You guys. This weekend was Charlie Sheen’s birthday. This weekend was ALSO Paz de la Huerta’s birthday. You heard me: Not one, but TWO Supreme Hot Mess Celebrities are celebrating their birthdays. Unreal! So even though the last thing these two, as well as every other celebrity hot mess out there, need are drinks, we’re going to raise a glass (or two, or three, or five) to them anyway. To the Celebrity Hot Messes of the world! Let us drink! And also play! For drinking games make the world go round! More »
Cartoonist Posts Open Letter to ‘South Park’ Creators Asking Them to Ridicule the Norwegian Bomber
Last week, a terrorist acting alone went on a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway, killing 76 people. As the country deals with the shock of the attack and slowly rebuilds, cartoonist and writer David Skaufjord is looking to America — specifically, to South Park and Book of Mormon creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. David posted his open letter to Reddit, imploring Trey and Matt to do what they do best: Rip apart a self-important asshole. It’s a fantastic letter, definitely worth reading. More »
Snap This: Comic-Con Bingo
Those of you partying it up at San Diego Comic-Con, here’s a way to enhance the experience: Comic-Con Bingo, from the lovely folks at Comedy Central. From Pedobear to the celebrities who are there only to promote comic-book movies and aren’t used to nerds hanging all over them, here’s your spot to document it. Extra points if you send photos of each geeky encounter to @ccinsider. And for those of you playing from home, you can still go by the live streams and photo galleries to fill out the squares. (Click through for the full version.) More »
The Daily WTF: South Park’s Cheesy Poofs Can Be Yours
Ever wanted a reason to step foot in a Walmart? If you’re a fan of both delicious junk food snacks and South Park, that incentive’s coming next month. As part of the cartoon’s “Year of the Fan” promotion, Frito-Lay will produce bags of Cheesy Poofs, the chips Cartman gorges on in the show. We intend to get some, though we intend to do it while wearing a mask. More »
Our 10 Favorite Fictional Canadians For Canada Day
It’s Canada Day! We’d like to take this opportunity to pay homage to some of our favorite fictional Canucks, who make us laugh when they fart in each others’ faces and smile when they sing about the mall. More »
8 Actors Who Have Played The Devil
Although he has played good guys in movies like The A Team, Bradley Cooper is reportedly considering switching it up and playing Lucifer in the upcoming film Paradise Lost (yes, as in the John Milton poem). But he isn’t the only actor who has taken a stab at playing the devil. More »
A Brief History of Literary Hoaxes
Author and activist Greg Mortenson, whose acclaimed book Three Cups of Tea has been a perennial bestseller, recently admitted that the story was “more of a fairy tale.” In the book, Mortenson chronicled his experiences as a mountain climber, and tells of how he was injured during a climb in Pakistan. He was taken in by local villagers and, when he recovered, he vowed to build girls’ schools in the country as a thank-you. Sadly, Mortenson is not the only author to pass off fiction as fact. More »
Why It’s OK for TV Shows to Have Dated Pop Culture References
Last week, Salon television critic Matt Zoller Seitz pondered the shelf life of highly referential series like The Simpsons, and whether future viewers would be willing to engage with a show whose influences they don’t actually recognize. Here’s the honest answer: Yes, they will, because it’s likely that they’ve already had some indirect exposure to that source material.
As Lilit mentioned in the first installment of her Virgin Viewing column, any movie that you didn’t see right when it came out will have many of its references bleed into other works, so that by the time you get around to watching it, it’s familiar. The same applies to TV shows. The very social aspect that has grown up around pop culture makes it clear that references get passed around and explained; Internet memes and the resources to make quick parodies only feed that compulsion to share. More »
Matt Stone and Trey Parker Are Not Proud of Having Made ‘BASEketball’
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are unstoppable – South Park is still a TV juggernaut, and they’ve made successful films. But the program for their latest production, the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, gives some clues about what projects Stone & Parker aren’t particularly proud of. In one word? BASEketball. More »
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘The Book Of Mormon’: Social Commentary That’s Actually Good?
Disclaimer: I am not the world’s biggest South Park fan. Oh, don’t get me wrong: the show is funny, and I’ll watch the episodes people tell me to. I just find that Matt Stone and Trey Parker have a tendency to get a little…preachy in their atheist/Libertarian values; a sort of blind spot to their own rigid worldview as they mock every other cultural, political, and religious system. That’s why I was so surprised by the compassion and humanity that I saw during a preview last night for their latest Broadway venture, The Book of Mormon. More »
South Park Now Just Plagiarizing Web Comedy Sketches – That Inception episode of South Park this week sound a little familiar? It should: It was taken verbatim from a 2 month old College Humor video called “Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception.” Trey Parker and Matt Stone‘s excuse? “We’re stupid.” (via New York Times)
Video: ‘South Park’ Spoofs ‘Inception’
“It’s so complex and cool!” Last night’s ep of South Park tried to explain the logic behind Chris Nolan‘s summer blockbuster — with Taco Bell references, football players and firemen, of course. We wonder how many dream levels it took to think this one up. More »
The Daily WTF: The Simpson’s Stand By South Park, Sort Of
In case you were wondering how The Simpsons’ creators felt about South Park’s Mohammed episode being pulled by Comedy Central after threats, last night’s opener should have cleared the air. Now we just need to hear from Seth MacFarlane and the peeps over at Family Guy and we can go back to not caring about South Park again, ever…. More »
South Park Finally Steps Over The Line – After _ years of pushing the envelope on every religious, political, and social issue out there, Trey Parker and Matt Stone finally managed to piss off a group of Queens fundamentalist Muslims last night so badly that Comedy Central pulled all the airings of the episode. Great job! (Associated Press)
Britney Spears on South Park
Britney “was” on South Park last night and we got some clips off the show. While many thought/hoped for bad representation of Britney on the show, the show portrayed a sad story of a lost girl… The way South Park had the news cover Britney’s lifestyle in the first five minutes is SO SAD.
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Britney Parodied on South Park
Only days after completing her How I Met Your Mother gig, Britney will be featured on another TV show, South Park. The episode likely to be aired this upcoming Wednesday (tomorrow) Britney joins South Park regulars Stan and Kyle take on a mission to get troubled Spears to the North Pole.
In a news release, a spokesman for the show says, “Britney Spears is trying to get away from it all in the mountains near South Park when the boys have… More »