They aren’t scared of dissing ole Donald…..
It has not gone unnoticed.
The Trump administration, seemingly in no joking mood, has issued angry statements attacking the show’s creators and dismissing “South Park” as irrelevant and out of touch.
Entertainment business and political observers, however, say the fight may be breathing new life into the politically incorrect satire program and providing the comedians behind it with more fodder for their weekly shows than ever.
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The attacks on Trump also appear to have been good for ratings….
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But with Trump’s return to the White House, “South Park” has seen a ratings boom.
“This whole thing has brought the spotlight back to ‘South Park’ in a way it hasn’t enjoyed in a really long time,” Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, a researcher and editor who authored a book on the show’s impact on American pop culture.
“It seems there is a lot of dissatisfaction on the left with some institutions, including the news media, sort of soft-balling Trump and here’s ‘South Park’ taking off the gloves.”
How long the fight between “South Park” and Trump World lasts remains to be seen, but in the short term most observers agree Parker and Stone’s mission to take aim at the president is paying off in a big way….
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The latest season of the outspoken animated show South Park continues to set records with its brutal mockery of Donald Trump’s administration.
The Comedy Central series doubled down on skewering Trump and his officials in its second episode, which savaged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE.
This proved fruitful for South Park, with Comedy Central announcing that the episode drew 6.2 million viewers across cable and streaming in its first three days.
Newly released ratings report that this was the “highest rated episode since 2018 and biggest share in series history”.
The stats show that the episode experienced a 15.61 share, meaning that 16 per cent of cable viewers on 6 August watched the episode that evening….
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Comedy Central also noted in its press release that the episode was the single most-watched telecast on 6 August.
It comes after the first episode of the season recorded the show’s biggest share of a cable audience for a season premiere since 1999, after attracting 5.9 million viewers…
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Trump has appeared in both episodes of the new season so far, and was reportedly left “seething” when he was shown in a relationship with Satan. In response, the White House said: “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Vice President JD Vance was also mocked in episode two, where he was depicted as a miniature version of himself waiting on Trump’s every demand.
South Park’s next episode is due to arrive on Wednesday, 20 August….
image….The New Yorker