{"id":1951255,"date":"2025-08-09T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1951255"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:47:30","slug":"were-terribly-sorry-south-park-co-creator-says-with-straight-face-after-depicting-trump-in-bed-with-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/were-terribly-sorry-south-park-co-creator-says-with-straight-face-after-depicting-trump-in-bed-with-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re terribly sorry,&#8217; South Park co-creator says with straight face after depicting Trump in bed with Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>South Park<\/em>\u00a0co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses Thursday to anger from the White House over the season premiere of the animated institution, which showed a naked U.S. President Donald Trump in bed with Satan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re terribly sorry,&#8221; Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parker was asked for his reaction to the fracas as he sat on the stage at San Diego&#8217;s Comic-Con International at the beginning of a Comedy Central animation panel that also included his <em>South Park<\/em>\u00a0partner Matt Stone, <em>Beavis and Butt-Head<\/em>\u00a0creator Mike Judge, and actor Andy Samberg, who co-created the animated <em>Digman!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the White House issued a statement on the 27th season premiere, which aired Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This show hasn&#8217;t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,&#8221; White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in the statement. &#8220;President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country&#8217;s history \u2014 and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump&#8217;s hot streak.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH | A clip from South Park&#8217;s premiere (warning: contains graphic language and images):\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relax, Guy | South Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q1xR3Xidq84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later in the panel, Parker said they did get a note from their producers about the episode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said, &#8216;OK, but we&#8217;re gonna blur the penis,&#8217; and I said, &#8216;No you&#8217;re not gonna blur the penis,'&#8221; Parker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The premiere also took aim at Paramount and its $16 million US recent settlement with Trump just hours after Parker and Stone signed a five-year deal with the company for 50 new episodes and streaming rights to previous seasons. The Los Angeles Times and other outlets report the deal was worth $1.5 billion US.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Wednesday&#8217;s episode is far from the first time U.S. President Donald Trump has been depicted on South Park. In 2015, a widely acclaimed episode, pictured here, parodied the then-Republican presidential hopeful&#8217;s attitude on immigration and the U.S. presidential race at large.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Comedy Central)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;Do you really want to end up like Colbert?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>In the episode, Trump sues the town of South Park when its residents challenge the presence of Jesus Christ \u2014 the actual person \u2014 in its elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus tells them they ought to settle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys saw what happened to CBS? Yeah, well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount,&#8221; Jesus says. &#8220;Do you really want to end up like Colbert?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS and parent Paramount Global cancelled Stephen Colbert&#8217;s <em>Late Show<\/em>\u00a0last week, days after Colbert sharply criticized Paramount&#8217;s settlement of Trump&#8217;s lawsuit over a <em>60 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0interview.<\/p>\n<p>CBS and Paramount executives said it was a financial decision to axe <em>The Late Show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The efficiency of <em>South Park<\/em>\u00a0production, and the brinksmanship of its creators, allow it to stay incredibly current for an animated series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what next week&#8217;s episode is going to be,&#8221; Parker said at Comic-Con. &#8220;Even just three days ago, we were like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if people are going to like this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em><strong>WATCH | Why was Colbert cancelled?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<span><span class=\"mediaEmbed\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui-container  \" data-cy=\"player-placeholder-ui-container\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-video-ui\" title=\"Why CBS axed The Late Show: Ratings or politics?\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7778\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui\">\n<div class=\"video-item video-card-overlay\" title=\"Why CBS axed The Late Show: Ratings or politics?\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/c6e40f6d-19de-4188-b3fd-92d18d694ec3,1752880842363\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-card-overlay-container\">\n<div class=\"video-info-container\">\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Why CBS axed The Late Show: Ratings or politics?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"media-caption\">Questions are swirling over whether the cancellation of Stephen Colbert\u2019s Late Show was politically motivated or purely financial. Colbert alluded to a &#8216;bribe&#8217; tied to a Trump lawsuit and a corporate deal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Park\u00a0co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses Thursday to anger from the White House over the season premiere of the animated institution, which showed a naked U.S. President Donald Trump in bed with Satan.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re terribly sorry,&#8221; Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.\u00a0 Parker was asked for his reaction to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1951256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Were-terribly-sorry-South-Park-co-creator-says-with-straight-face.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}