Paramount announced Wednesday afternoon that the creators of “South Park” agreed to produce 50 new episodes in the next five years in an agreement, according to reports, valued at $ 1.5 billion.
Ten hours later, the creators of “South Park” Matt Stone and Trey Parker excorated Paramount, and the aggressively biased president Donald Trump, in the main episode of the 27th season of Comedy Central Show.
In the episode, Trump (with the voice of Stone) demands the city of South Park for $ 5 billion after they go back the presence of Jesus Christ in his primary school. The people of the people are prepared to defend themselves, but Jesus Christ (also expressed by stone) urges them to settle.
“You saw what happened to CBS? Yes, well, do you guess who is the owner of CBS? Paramount,” says Jesus Christ in the climax of the episode. “Do you really want to end like Colbert?”
Paramount is under intense scrutiny because Kowtow seems to the Trump administration before a fusion of great proposed success. Stone and Parker were clearly riffing the agitated summer of their corporate parents.
On July 2, Paramount agreed to pay $ 16 million to resolve a demand from Trump, who alleged that the “60 minutes” of CBS had deceptively edited an interview with former vice president Kamala Harris. CBS denied that statement.
On July 17, CBS announced that it planned to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in May, qualifying the measure in “purely a financial decision.” But many of Colbert’s fans cried badly, arguing that the comedian was being penalized for his years of Anti-Trump humor.
Both developments arrived as Paramount is preparing to be sold to Skydance Media, a entertainment production and finance company headed by David Ellison, son of Oracle Mogul (and Trump Ally) Larry Ellison. The corporate link requires federal approval.
The main episode, entitled “Sermon on the ‘Mount”, pointed to other satirical objectives, including the alleged death of “Wokeness”, The Rise of Chatgpt and the debate on Christian teachings in public schools. However, Trump and Paramount were the focal points.
In a scene, the “60 minutes” report on the social disturbances that rise in the South Park in the middle of Trump’s demand. The fictional hosts of the news program are visibly nervous when presenting the segment, doing everything possible to praise the president as “a great man.”
“We know that he is probably looking,” says one of the hosts.
CBS is not the only network to reach a legal agreement with Trump. ABC agreed to pay $ 15 million as part of an agreement with Trump a month before assuming the position, effectively ending a case related to the alleged defamation.
However, the Paramount agreement with Trump has caught more attention. Colbert, three days before CBS announced the end of his program, criticized the agreement as a “big and fat bribe.” Jon Stewart, the “The Daily Show” presenter of Comedy Central, also assaulted the agreement.
Paramount owns CBS, a venerable Hollywood film study, a set of cable brands (including Central Comedy) and the Paramount+transmission platform.
“South Park” is widely known for hitting politicians and social trends throughout the ideological spectrum. But possibly the representation of Trump’s last episode went beyond the usual.
Stone and Parker represent Trump as a petulant child, recycling the animation style they used for Saddam Hussein in the 1999 film “South Park: Bigger, Long, Long & Unt -Tut”. They also make profane references to the president’s anatomy.
“Sermon in the ‘Monte” closes with a video apparently generated by Trump’s AI wandering in a desert and taking off his clothes.
Paramount spokesmen did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the episode.
